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PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN

Vanora Bennett

It is 1527. The English Renaissance is in full swing under the young King Henry VIII. The young German painter Hans Holbein, who has come to London to seek his…

FIRST DARLING OF THE MORNING

Thrity Umrigar

First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to…

TRIANGLE

Katherine Weber

By the time she dies at age 106, Esther Gottesfeld, the last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, has told the story of that day many times. But her own…

DAKOTA

Kathleen Norris

Twenty years ago Kathleen Norris, with her husband, fellow poet David Dwyer, moved from New York City to her late grandmother’s home in Lemmon, South Dakota (population 1,614). Their stay…

SOMETIMES MINE

Martha Moody

From the author of the runaway bestseller Best Friends comes an engaging new novel of love, loss, and enduring friendship.Forty-something Genie Toledo has compensated for the mistakes she’s made by…

THE COLOR OF LIGHTNING

Paulette Jiles

In 1863, as the War Between the States creeps inevitably toward its bloody conclusion, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson ventures west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their…