Waheed Rabbani
Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
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Jack Weatherford based the title of this book on an inscription carved in a stone in the Great Wall of China, about 130 miles ...Read Review
The River Knows My Name
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In early 20th-century Basra, Iraq, fifteen-year-old Charlotte lives with her father, a doctor and missionary from Seattle. While they reside comfortably in a ...Read Review
The Venetian Daughter (Daughters of Italy)
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1943 Tuscany, Italy. Forty-three-year-old contessa Evelina is running her Villa Rosa farm estate singlehandedly. Her husband has died, and her two grown-up sons have ...Read Review
March Roars
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1937 Toronto, Canada. On a roaring cold March morning, a Private Investigator, Charlotte Frayne, receives a strange letter. The letter from Mrs. Brodie, who ...Read Review
Falling Wisteria (Yellow Crocus)
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On 7 December 1941 in Berkeley, California, young Kay Lynn Brooke assists her Japanese-American neighbor, Kimiko Fujioka, in giving birth to a baby. The neighboring ...Read Review
The Stolen Daughter
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In 1848 in Yoruba Kingdom (present-day Nigeria), fourteen-year-old Ṣìkẹ́mi lives peacefully in a village, gathering wood and edibles and helping her loving parents. ...Read Review
Shanghai
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In 1939, young, half-Jewish Daniel Lohr boards a Lloyds liner sailing for Shanghai. Following Kristallnacht, he flees Berlin to the only safe port that ...Read Review
Beneath a Crescent Shadow (Balkan Legends, 1)
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In 1373 in Rivak, Serbia, young Konstantin arrives on horseback at his village only to find it devastated by fire. Although most houses and ...Read Review
The Loose Thread (Three Sisters)
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In 1938 London, young Rose, the eldest of three daughters of a wealthy haberdasher, returns to her posh home to find her father scolding ...Read Review
Highcliffe House (Proper Romance Regency)
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In 1813 London, young Graham, a fledgling entrepreneur, arrives at the impressive townhouse of the wealthy Mr. Lane. Graham has come across a lucrative ...Read Review
