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View from Pagoda Hill
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Shanghai, 1870. When the matchmaker declares 12-year-old Ning unmarriageable (she’s too tall, has “unnatural” green eyes and unbound feet), Ning’s mother writes ...Read Review
Priestess of Pompeii: The Initiate’s Journey Book I
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Italy, 60 BCE: A baby girl is left exposed to the elements after her mother dies giving the child life. The infant is found ...Read Review
Eternal
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Readers will emerge informed and moved from Lisa Scottoline’s first historical novel, which dramatizes WWII-era Rome via three best friends and their ...Read Review
Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Series)
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Glasgow 1932: Inspector James Dreghorn and his partner “Bonnie” Archie McDaid investigate two murders, one of a child beaten to death by his father, ...Read Review
Teddy
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In their appealing young adult graphic novel, Luckinbill and Tait present the facts of President Theodore Roosevelt’s life in compact form, while ...Read Review
Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder: A Novel
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
The Investigators at Miss Brickett’s Investigations and Inquiries, located in the underground tunnels of London, are whispered-about sleuths guarding the city, though ...Read Review
The Parted Earth
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This multi-generational novel begins in New Delhi, India, in June 1947. The British-administered partition of India and Pakistan is chaotic and causing severe tension. ...Read Review
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (Cuba Saga)
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This is a well-written historical novel with strong female characters linked by Cuba’s fight for freedom in the late 19th century. It ...Read Review
The Sculptress
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Alexander’s latest novel follows the tradition of Madame Bovary, the psychological novel of love and betrayal by Gustav Flaubert. In The Sculptress, ...Read Review
The Conductors (A Murder & Magic Novel)
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
In this inventive debut, Nicole Glover mixes historical fiction, mystery, and fantasy to tell the story of Hetty and Benjy Rhodes, magical detectives ...Read Review