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Thirty Girls: A Novel
By Susan Minot
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A Ugandan teenager and an American journalist struggle to find meaning in horrific wartime events.
Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great
By Eva Stachniak
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An illuminating account of how an obscure German princess came to rule Russia.
The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel
By Anne Fortier
Parallel journeys by an Oxford lecturer and a North African priestess separated by time lead to the “real” story of the Amazons.
The Lie: A Novel
By Helen Dunmore
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In this lyrical and haunting tale, set in Cornwall, a spiraling tragedy has its roots in the battlefield memories of a WWI survivor.
While Beauty Slept: A Novel
By Elizabeth Blackwell
“Sleeping Beauty” retold from the perspective of the queen’s maid and companion.
The Swan Gondola
Timothy Schaffert
Love, lost and found, against a backdrop of the 1898 World’s Fair.
The Tilted World: A Novel
By Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
A dangerous cat-and-mouse game between bootleggers and the Feds during Prohibition.
The Dream Maker
Jean-Christophe Rufin, translated by Alison Anderson
The French monarchy and the reign of Charles VII come to life in this novel by a winner of France’s Prix Goncourt award for fiction.
