Ann Napolitano's much-anticipated Hello Beautiful pulls the reader into a warm, loving familial atmosphere in what has been described as an homage to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Sweeping and ...
Read ReviewThe Therapeutic Value of Walt Whitman's Poetry
Ann Napolitano's novel Hello Beautiful is the story of four sisters contending with life and loss, love, death and forgiveness, and finding different ways to cope with hardship. The characters go ...
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It's become common for history books and courses to reconsider the emphasis on "Western Civilization" that dominated education for decades, including its canon of mostly white male authors who ...
Read ReviewThe Life and Literature of Tullia D'Aragona
As Naoíse Mac Sweeney explains in her book The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives, the fusing of Greco-Roman roots into a common 'Western' narrative took off during the Renaissance, and ...
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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 ...
Read ReviewAmulya Malladi's A Death in Denmark takes place in the country of Denmark in the north of Europe, which is comprised of the Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of over 400 islands. To the south, ...
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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. ...
Read ReviewIn 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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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—...
Read ReviewIn 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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Jacqueline Winspear's latest, The White Lady, is a stand-alone novel featuring a new heroine. We meet Elinore White in Kent, England, two years after the end of the Second World War. She's a mystery ...
Read ReviewBritish Women in the Second World War
Jacquelin Winspear's heroine, Elinor White, was a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) during the Second World War, one of several British organizations in which women enlisted to aid the ...
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The First Conspiracy
by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
A remarkable and previously untold piece of American history—the secret plot to kill George Washington
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Few writers paint three-dimensional characters with such verve and humanism.
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