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    The West

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    The Life and Literature of Tullia D'Aragona

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    A Death in Denmark

    Can a mystery novel be informative, intriguing and deeply comforting all at once? Amulya Malladi achieves this in her first foray into the genre, A Death in Denmark, a thriller that warns of history ...

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    Denmark: A Brief Overview

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    Shrines of Gaiety

    A few years ago, magazines ran pieces about how the 2020s were likely to be the 1920s all over again, full of excess and abandon on the heels of a global recession and much political divisiveness. ...

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    Kate Meyrick

    In an Author's Note in her novel Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson reveals that the real-life inspiration for her character Nellie Coker was Kate Meyrick, the impresario known as the 'Queen of ...

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    Only the Beautiful

    Roseanne "Rosie" Maras' life has imploded. Her family is dead, her new guardians, the Calverts, treat her like a maid, and she's just discovered she's pregnant. Even worse, her darkest secret—...

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    Sad Music is Blue, Literally

    In Only the Beautiful, the historical novel by Susan Meissner, readers are introduced to Rosanne 'Rosie' Maras, a teenage girl who has lost her family and is placed under the care of her parents' ...

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    The White Lady

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    British Women in the Second World War

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