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How to Find Your Way Home
How to Find Your Way Home
by Katy Regan
Reviewed: Sep 21, 2021
 
Published: Feb 15, 2022
 
What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life?

A warm, uplifting novel about the unshakable bond between siblings, and what happens when a sister discovers her long-missing brother in the most unexpected place, from ...
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(4.1/5)
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The Last Grand Duchess
The Last Grand Duchess : A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution
by Bryn Turnbull
Reviewed: Nov 15, 2021
 
Published: Feb 8, 2022
 
This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov, the first daughter of the last tsar.
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(4.6/5)
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The Family Chao
The Family Chao : A Novel
by Lan Samantha Chang
Reviewed: Oct 25, 2021
 
Published: Feb 1, 2022
 
An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream" (Jean Kwok).
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(4.4/5)
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Heartbreak
Heartbreak : A Personal and Scientific Journey
by Florence Williams
Reviewed: Nov 1, 2021
 
Published: Feb 1, 2022
 
Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own.
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(4.1/5)
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The Fields
The Fields : A Novel
by Erin Young
Reviewed: Sep 20, 2021
 
Published: Jan 25, 2022
 
Some things don't stay buried.

A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut - crime fiction at its very finest.
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(4.1/5)
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Free
Free : A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
Reviewed: Oct 25, 2021
 
Published: Jan 18, 2022
 
A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
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(4.3/5)
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The Paris Bookseller
The Paris Bookseller
by Kerri Maher
Reviewed: Oct 18, 2021
 
Published: Jan 11, 2022
 
The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves.
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(4.0/5)
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The Latinist
The Latinist : A Novel
by Mark Prins
Reviewed: Sep 20, 2021
 
Published: Jan 4, 2022
 
A contemporary reimagining of the Daphne and Apollo myth, The Latinist is a page-turning exploration of power, ambition, and the intertwining of love and obsession.
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(4.2/5)
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