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In Mrs. Gulliver, Valerie Martin offers us an idyll, perhaps even a comedy. All’s well that ends well. We hope.

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Set in Manchuria in 1908, The Fox Wife combines Chinese myths about fox gods who live among people with a detective mystery.

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05.02.2024

Book review of The Women by Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah demonstrates her knack for blending history with plot in this salute to military and civilian women who served during the Vietnam era.

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Book review of Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones

Wolves of Winter is another rollicking success for Dan Jones, leaving us counting the days until we can read what the Essex Dogs do next.

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Book review of The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ dual-timeline magical realist tour de force presents the dynastic legacy of the Sonoro family.

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Book review of The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller

The Curse of Pietro Houdini boasts a little of everything—a truly fascinating setting; rich, quirky characters; tragedy, suspense and humor.

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Interview with Derek B. Miller, author of The Curse of Pietro Houdini

Derek B. Miller returns with a captivating historical tale centered on a pivotal yet rarely told episode of WWII.

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05.01.2024

Our Top 10 books of January 2024

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Book review of Goldenseal by Maria Hummel

Maria Hummel’s Goldenseal is an inventive, immersive novel recounting the reunion of two old friends 40 years after a dramatic rupture.

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Book review of Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes

An American and a Soviet soldier decide on a booze-fueled lark to have a cross-country skiing race. This is a terrible idea.

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18.12.2023

Book review of You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer

You Dreamed of Empires offers a reimagined, irreverent, and unprecious encounter between Cortés and Moctezuma.

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Our Top 10 books of December 2023

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Honor the unsung women of history with your book club

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27.11.2023

Book review of We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein

Grodstein pays homage to the Oneg Shabbat’s goal of honoring the Jewish people by bearing witness to the entirety of their experience.

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20.11.2023

Book review of A True Account by Katherine Howe

Readers with a love of pirates will be enamored by this piratical retelling in which the heroes are as unlikely as buried treasure itself.

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13.11.2023

Book review of Straw Dogs of the Universe by Ye Chun

Chun personalizes the fear that pervaded the lives of 19th-century Chinese immigrants to the U.S. and the hope that they cultivated anyway.

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Book review of The Liberators by E.J. Koh

The Liberators is another resounding triumph for E.J. Koh: a brave exploration of the impossible task of making peace with the past.

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Top 10 titles of November 2023

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Interview with E.J. Koh, author of The Liberators

E.J. Koh wields language in many ways: She has written memoir, poetry, scripts for Apple TV's Pachinko, and now a debut novel, The Liberators.

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Book review of The Glutton by A. K. Blakemore

This mesmeric novel never loses sight of Tarare's humanity. He's a man, he's a monster, he's a frightened boy, and he's a living myth.

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23.10.2023

Book review of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

To read Ward is to travel to the dark heart of the American South and, once there, to discover the stark beauty of the region’s people.

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16.10.2023

Book review of The Caretaker by Ron Rash

The Caretaker is an unforgettable novel of class, power, war, family, yearning and betrayal. Don’t miss it.

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Book review of Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

Night Watch is an escapist masterpiece, allowing readers to experience a distant era and the struggles of the people who lived through it.

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13.10.2023

Book review of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut

The MANIAC is a descent into years of research and invention, with little sense of what’s to come beyond a pervasive, unnameable dread.

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13.10.2023

Book review of North Woods by Daniel Mason

North Woods is a love poem to the human and natural history of Western Massachusetts.

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Book review of Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop

Beyond the Door of No Return is an engrossing work from a powerful and humane writer, David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.

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11.09.2023

Our top 10 books for September 2023

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11.09.2023

Book review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

While The Vaster Wilds is often a dark story with only slivers of hope, Lauren Groff’s inimitable style makes it a memorable, immersive novel.

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