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Maria La Divina: A Novel of Maria Callas
By Jerome Charyn
A fact-packed, oddly flat portrayal of the singular diva.
Season of the Swamp
By Yuri Herrera; translated by Lisa Dillman
A future president of Mexico endures exile in 1850s New Orleans.
Circle of Days: A Novel
By Ken Follett
Stonehenge, where a man’s a man, and the children… (Okay, we’ll stop.)
Amity: A Novel
By Nathan Harris
Formerly enslaved siblings make a treacherous journey to post-Civil War Mexico.
The Wildes
By Louis Bayard
The rakish Oscar and his family come alive in this smart, moving tale.
Wayward Girls: A Novel
By Susan Wiggs
The classic “mean Irish nuns” story gets an Upstate New York reboot.
The Mapmaker: A Novel of World War II
By Tom Young
Can a French Resistance fighter get her critical drawings to the Allies ahead of D-Day?
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness: A Novel
By Irene Solà; translated by Mara Faye Lethem
Women confront the devil, the perversity of war, and their own capacity for malice.
