Book Review
Vested Interest
A gifted girl’s murder speaks to the changing world for women in the mid-1960s in the perceptive mystery novel "Vested Interest". In Bailey Herrington’s taut mystery novel "Vested Interest", a pastor confronts the senseless murder of...
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The Baker of Lost Memories
A family’s fraught road back to each other is the focus of Shirley Russak Wachtel’s bittersweet historical novel "The Baker of Lost Memories". Josef and Anya run a small bakery in Lodz, Poland, with the help of their bubbly young...
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The Man Who Shot J. P. Morgan
Mary Noé’s keyhole true crime book The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan is about false identities, radical politics, and the prewar tensions of the early twentieth-century US. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 16, 1906, Leone Krembs...
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Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life
In Pamela Reitman’s bittersweet historical novel "Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life", the German Jewish artist struggles to express herself and survive in the shadow of the Third Reich. In 1939 in Berlin, Kristallnacht shatters...
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Bright Circle
Randall Fuller’s history book "Bright Circle" reveals the often-overlooked women at the heart of Transcendentalism. Focusing on the lives and works of a handful of extraordinary minds—Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,...
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