Sarah Johnson
Unfamiliar Territory
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Reinvention is the name of the game in Smathers’ fabulous epic of Gold Rush California, which sees her heroine, Juanita Castro de la ...Read Review
Salt People of the Cloud Houses: The Story of Sarah Rapalje and Dutch Manhattan
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Doyle’s debut is a fine introduction to the life and times of a lesser-known American foremother: Sarah Rapalje (1625-85), considered the first ...Read Review
Daughter of the Stones
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A dominant patriarch. His tragic mental decline. His youngest daughter, distraught over his incomprehensible repudiation of her. Walsh looks back to the Iron ...Read Review
Bad Bad Girl
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As she details in the beginning of her fictionalized memoir, the author, Gish Jen, was constantly scapegoated by her mother, Agnes, who was ...Read Review
Orange Wine
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For Inés Camargo de Scala, a young wife and mother in early 20th-century Colombia, certain things have always come easy. The youngest ...Read Review
Into the Leopard’s Den: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery
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This satisfyingly complex fourth outing for amateur detective Kaveri Murthy takes place in Bangalore and the hills of Coorg in 1922. Kaveri’s reputation ...Read Review
Rembrandt’s Promise
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This beautifully composed debut by Irish writer Leahy plunges readers into the world of Geertje Dircx, a nursemaid in Rembrandt’s household who ...Read Review
Canticle
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In her debut, set in late 13th-century Flanders, Edwards brings to glowing life the story of a young woman consumed with desire for ...Read Review
A Christmas Witness (Inspector Ian Rutledge)
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Can a story be haunted and heartwarming at the same time? Just like the holiday classic that inspired it, Charles Todd makes this ...Read Review
Circle of Days
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Follett brings his storytelling prowess to another epic about a marvel of human engineering, illustrating answers to the major questions (who, what, when, ...Read Review
