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Before the War
Before the War
by Fay Weldon
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2016
 
Published: Mar 14, 2017
 
1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse - intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess."
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(3.1/5)
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Edgar and Lucy
Edgar and Lucy
by Victor Lodato
Reviewed: Oct 31, 2016
 
Published: Mar 7, 2017
 
A new literary novel from Weissberg Award winning playwright and PEN USA Award for Fiction winning writer Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy is a masterfully written story of a broken family struggling to stay together.
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(4.4/5)
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The Barrowfields
The Barrowfields
by Phillip Lewis
Reviewed: Jan 24, 2017
 
Published: Mar 7, 2017
 
A richly textured coming-of-age story about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a powerful new voice in fiction.
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(4.0/5)
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The Typewriter's Tale
The Typewriter's Tale
by Michiel Heyns
Reviewed: Dec 12, 2016
 
Published: Feb 28, 2017
 
The Typewriter's Tale by Michiel Heyns is a thought-provoking novel on love, art and life fully lived.
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(3.5/5)
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A Piece of the World
A Piece of the World
by Christina Baker Kline
Reviewed: Nov 14, 2016
 
Published: Feb 21, 2017
 
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World.
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(4.7/5)
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I See You
I See You
by Clare Mackintosh
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2016
 
Published: Feb 21, 2017
 
The author of the award winning, smash bestseller, I Let You Go, propels readers into a dark and claustrophobic thriller, in which a normal, everyday woman becomes trapped in the confines of her normal, everyday world...
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(4.4/5)
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Caught in the Revolution
Caught in the Revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge
by Helen Rappaport
Reviewed: Sep 27, 2016
 
Published: Feb 21, 2017
 
From the bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
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Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home
by April Smith
Reviewed: Nov 21, 2016
 
Published: Jan 31, 2017
 
From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake, this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a ...
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