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Showing posts with label WWII setting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII setting. Show all posts
Monday, April 6, 2026

HONEY IN THE WOUND, Korean magical realist family saga

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HONEY IN THE WOUND JIYOUNG HAN Avid Reader Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available now Rating: 4.5* of fiv...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

THE DIRECTOR, living life through extraordinary times demands a lot from an artist

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THE DIRECTOR DANIEL KEHLMANN (tr. Ross Benjamin) Summit Books/S&S ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available now...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF OMARI, modern iteration of the Japanese locked-room mystery

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MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF OMARI TAKU ASHIBE (tr. Bryan Karetnyk) Pushkin Vertigo ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $12.99 ebook availa...
Friday, October 4, 2024

BETRAYAL AT BLACKTHORN PARK, latest from emerging favorite storyteller Julia Kelly

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BETRAYAL AT BLACKTHORN PARK JULIA KELLY (Parisian Orphan #2) Minotaur Books $28.00 hardcover, available now Rating: 4.25* of five ...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

AN UNTOUCHED HOUSE, a flawed Dutch gem via Archipelago Books

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AN UNTOUCHED HOUSE WILLEM FREDERIK HERMANS (tr. David Colmer) , introduction by Cees Nooteboom Archipelago Books $16.00 trade paper, a...
Friday, February 16, 2024

THE PERFUME THIEF, WWII espionage in a beautifully evoked Paris setting

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THE PERFUME THIEF TIMOTHY SCHAFFERT Doubleday $17.00 trade paper, available now Rating: 3.8* of five The Publisher Says: A Gentlema...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

A TRAITOR IN WHITEHALL, entertaining mystery set in WWII's corridors of power seen from below

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A TRAITOR IN WHITEHALL JULIA KELLY Minotaur Books $28.00 hardcover, available now Rating: 4* of five The Publisher Says: From Julia...
Friday, July 22, 2022

THE VANISHING SKY, home-front chronicle of German commonfolk & NAZI WIVES: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany, uppermost class' viewpoint

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NAZI WIVES: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany JAMES WYLLIE St. Martin's Press ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $17.99 Kind...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

THE MIRACULOUS TRUE HISTORY OF NOMI ALI, intense and urgent and deeply necessary reading

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THE MIRACULOUS TRUE HISTORY OF NOMI ALI UZMA ASLAM KHAN Deep Vellum ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.95 ebook, available now R...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

BLACK IRISH BLUES, a follow-up to OUTERBOROUGH BLUES & WARSAW FURY, a WWII story we need Right NOW

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BLACK IRISH BLUES: A Caesar Stiles Mystery ANDREW COTTO Black Rose Writing $3.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: 4* of five T...
Monday, June 28, 2021

I, PIERRE SEEL, DEPORTED HOMOSEXUAL: A Memoir of Nazi Terror...more important now than ever

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I, PIERRE SEEL, DEPORTED HOMOSEXUAL: A Memoir of Nazi Terror PIERRE SEEL (tr. Joachim Neugroschel) Basic Books (non-affiliate Amazon li...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

TIME WAS, short and sad and very well-done gay-male romantic novella

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TIME WAS IAN McDONALD Tor.com Publishing ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $3.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: 4* of five The ...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

FOUR PERFECT PEBBLES, a timely (when isn't it timely?) reminder of the horrors of populism

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FOUR PERFECT PEBBLES LILA PERL (tr. Marion Blumenthal Lazan) Greenwillow Books $16.99 hardcover edition, $6.99 paperback edition, $1.99 ...
Friday, March 31, 2017

FINDING DOROTHY SCOTT, belated light on a valorous unsung woman hero

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FINDING DOROTHY SCOTT: Letters of a WASP Pilot SARAH BYRN RICKMAN Texas Tech University Press $24.95 hardcover, available now Rating:...