Historical Fiction

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The Other Me is a pleasure to read, with a style that moves as smoothly as an Acela train and a page-turning plot.

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Wonderment, carelessness, and suspense.

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It’s said that people go to Alaska to start new lives, or at least to forget an unsuccessful past.

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If timing were everything, this memoir would be No. 1 on all the bestseller lists, getting released the week of David Bowie’s unfortunate death and the release of his latest album.

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“[a] fine novel that educates and entertains.”

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“a splendid novel.”

The Decision, a brief new novel by Britta Bohler, can be summed up with a simple yet elegant sentence lifted from early on in the text:

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Not a religious novel, but a novel about religion, The Christos Mosaic by Vincent Czyz is a search for the roots of Christianity and the identity of Christ.

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James Lee Burke’s finest literary work to date, cementing his reputation as one of America’s all-time masters.”

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“sure to appeal to fans of both history and fantasy.”

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Anne Perry’s Christmas novels are comfort food for the reader who wants a short mystery novel with a holiday theme.

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The Master of the Prado by Javier Sierra is a work of illuminated autobiographical fiction.

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It’s 1978 and John Lennon has taken off from everyone and everything he knows to find peace in his soul and songs in his psyche.

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In her book The Lake House, author Kate Morton takes three stories about children—a missing child, an abandoned child, and a child given up for adoption—and braids the stories together.

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Bestselling novelist B. A. Shapiro clearly admires Abstract Expressionist art.

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Tightrope by Simon Mawer tells the story of Marian Sutro, a World War II heroine who fought behind the lines to assist the Allies.

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“the best book this year . . . when it comes to literature.”

In an author’s note to his intense and amazing new collection of short fiction, Colum McCann writes:

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Nothing says exceptionalism like a debut author winning a two-million-dollar advance.

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If you enter a few chapters deep into this novel, you hear and think and feel akin to the farmers and churls who found their language, their loyalty, and their land wrench

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King David comes alive in a deeply emotional “novel” that tackles the man and the myth in an ambitious sweep of history and lore.

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This book gets off to a rough start, both for the heroine, who gets railroaded out of business by hostile locals and becomes desperate for money, and for the reader, who has to endure her aggressiv

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“an evocative and provoking collection . . .”

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A rich jazz-age family convenes at a Newport summer palace where an old widower intends to have a séance and get the approval of his dead wife for a new marriage only to learn that his handsome law

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“The craftsmanship is so good, it’s hard to believe this is a first novel.”

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“a rich historical tapestry of words.”

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A priceless Cezanne, the centerpiece of a special exhibition at a prestigious San Francisco art museum, is discovered to be a forgery.

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