Susan Higginbotham
Oblivion
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In Oblivion, Dean de la Motte offers us the perspective of the Brontë sibling from whom the most was expected and by whom ...Read Review
Pauper Auction
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In 1805, Margery Turner, a young widow whose beloved husband has perished in a tragic accident, finds herself standing at a New Hampshire town ...Read Review
The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
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In The Devil’s Half Acre, journalist Kristen Green takes up the formidable task of telling the story of a woman whose life ...Read Review
White Man’s Graveyard
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In 1830s Pennsylvania, close-knit siblings Annie Goheen, a schoolteacher, and Sylvanus Goheen, a physician, both despise the institution of slavery, but Annie prefers ...Read Review
The German Wife
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In 1950, Sofie and her children leave war-ravaged Berlin for Huntsville, Alabama, where they are reunited with Sofie’s husband, Jürgen, whom Sophie ...Read Review
The Opera Sisters
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In London in the 1930s, sisters Louise and Ida Cook, who live with their parents in modest circumstances and hold down clerical jobs, ...Read Review
The Bee & The Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott & Emily Dickinson
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What if Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson secretly wrote to each other for twenty-five years? In this epistolary novel, the collaborative effort ...Read Review
Austens of Broadford (The Midwife Chronicles)
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To anyone else in early 18th-century England, Eliza Austen (Jane Austen’s great-grandmother) would appear to be the perfect daughter-in-law: she’s well-born, ...Read Review
The Last Grand Duchess
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When The Last Grand Duchess opens in March 1917, we are witness to the collapse of a world: the privileged existence of the Romanov ...Read Review
Daughters of a Dead Empire
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As civil war between the Reds and Whites rages across Russia in 1918, Evgenia, a sixteen-year-old peasant, drives from village to village with her ...Read Review