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The Forgotten Garden
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In 1913 in London a little girl is abandoned on a ship taking emigrants to Australia. She can’t recall her name, only that ...Read Review
The Night Villa
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Literary fiction set in the present day, with flashbacks to 79 AD. Sophie Chase is a classics professor who is seriously injured while witnessing ...Read Review
In the Shadow of Lions
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In the Shadow of Lions is the first in a planned trilogy from author Ginger Garrett. The story is divided amongst the perspectives ...Read Review
The 19th Wife
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If you are contemplating a polygamous lifestyle, this novel will talk you out of it. The author wants us to know that plural ...Read Review
The Hakawati
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As young Osama travels back to war-torn Beirut to his father’s hospital bed, he reflects on the stories that his parents, sister, ...Read Review
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
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Imagine living within a fifty-year span, from 1950 to 2000, in China, when revolutionary change is a constant rather than an exception. It’s a ...Read Review
Pharmakon
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Pharmakon had me, if not by the first sentence, then certainly by the end of the first page. This elegantly written and often ...Read Review
The Ancient Ship
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Zhang Wei depicts a master plot in which the Chinese sense of community vies with individuals’ desire for wealth and leadership in China’...Read Review
Kaleidoscope
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Set at the end of the Roaring 1920s in a noir West Coast Florida, this grizzly mystery with literary aspirations follows the adventure ...Read Review
Worldwide Adventures in Love
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In her fifth novel, Wener examines the influence of scandal on personal relationships in two very distinct periods of British history: the 1930s ...Read Review