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Sarah Blake's second novel (following Grange House, published in 2001) follows the lives of three women - Frankie, Emma and Iris - through the early years of World War II. It's a book about love and loss, as are so many war-era narratives, but what sets it apart is that it's also a novel about the power of words - the remarkable capacity they contain to move, motivate and inform over time and space. Letters written, reports broadcast, ...    Continue Reading

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Heresy

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Publishes: 02/23/2010.
Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.

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Library Journal called it rich and evocative, Cosmo magazine called it a captivating story and independent bookstores named it an excellent book club choice. Masha Hamilton’s third novel is The Camel Bookmobile, set in northeastern Kenya and inspired by a real camel-borne library. She’s also the author of the acclaimed novels The Distance Between Us and Staircase Of A Thousand Steps. Available to speak with reading groups, and sometimes meet with those in her area. 
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