Recent Reviews

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“While histories may not provide the comfort of clear resolutions, Geary’s research, writing, and graphics assure us that we’ve experienced compelling narratives.”

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“British journalist Robert Verkaik tells the story of Market Garden’s failure in the context of one of the most remarkable and consequential spy stories of World War II.”

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Anyone who has read Mavis Gallant’s short stories in The New Yorker or elsewhere will immediately recognize her skill and style as a master storyteller and writer in this final collection

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What can be said about Food Network’s Ina Garten that fans of Food TV’s Barefoot Contessa don’t already know?

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Origin Stories by Corinna Vallianatos is a collection of fictional stories highlighting an array of women characters and the people in their lives, in various moments of their marriages, f

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“Jade Scott explains that, depending on your belief, Mary Queen of Scots was innocent, naïve, cunning, manipulative, deceitful, adulterous, tyrannical . . . and more.”

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“sharp writing keeps the reader eagerly turning pages. The characters are all nuanced and real, the situations they confront full of tension . . .”

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Gettysburg: The Tide Turns . . . ‘brings in the people who were part of the story, large and small in importance, to tell it.’”

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Love and death, suffering and addiction, family and displacement, all become interwoven into a commentary on the present intractable mess.

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Cherry has the will and the strength to shoulder her poems, but also the knowledge, courage, and music to sing them into the air.”

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It’s easy to say that Josephine Baker (1906–1975) was a one-of-a-kind personality.

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