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Naked Men. By Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett. Tr. By Andrea Rosenberg. Oct. 2018.416p. Europa, paper, $18 (9781609454760). Winner of the Planeta Prize in 2015, this spirited novel reverses the trope of men [...]

The Brightest Sun. By Adrienne Benson. Mar. 2018. 336p. Park Row, $26.99 (9780778331278). After a one-night stand, Leona, an American anthropologist, gives birth in a remote part of Kenya. Reluctant [...]

House of Shadows. By Nicola Cornick. Oct. 2017. 480p. Graydon, paper, $ 15.99 (9781525811388). Holly's brother, Ben, has vanished while doing some family-history research at Ashdown, in Oxfordshire, where they [...]

Oxford African American Studies Center. [Internet database]. Ed. by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2006. Oxford, call 800-334-4249, ext. 6484, for pricing. [http://www.oxfordaasc .com]. (Last accessed May 18, 2006). Oxford has [...]

The Orphan of Salt Winds. By Elizabeth Brooks. Jan. 2019.300p. Tin House, paper, $15.95 (9781947793224). According to 86-year-old Virginias plan, New Years Eve 2015 is not only her last day [...]

Tilly and the Crazy Eights. By Monique Gray Smith. Oct. 2018.288p. Second Story, paper, $19.95 (9781772600759). During the regular meeting of the Stitch and Bitch sewing circle, Sarah, who has [...]

Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners. By Gretchen Anthony. Oct. 2018. 336p. Park Row, paper, $16.99 (9780778307860). Many of us have been on the receiving end of those humble/bragging holiday letters. [...]

Swimming between Worlds. By Elaine Neil Orr. Apr. 2018. 416p. Berkley, paper, $16 (9780425282731). Tacker Hart returns home to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, having been dismissed from an architecture project in [...]

The Fire by Alight. By Teresa Messineo. Jan. 2017.320p. Morrow, $26.99 (9780062644145). Jo and Kay become best friends during training for the Army Nurse Corps, and Messineo's debut alternates between [...]

The Invitation. By Lucy Foley. Aug. 2016. 432p. Little, Brown, $26 (9780316273473). When Hal, a freelance British journalist living a precarious existence in Rome, shares a night of passion with [...]

* The Inseparables. By Stuart Nadler. July 2016. 352p. Little, Brown, $27 (9780316335256); paper, $13.99 (9780316335232). The Inseparables is the title of 'one of America's most famously trashy books' (think [...]

A Fine Imitation. By Amber Brock. May 2016. 304p. Crown, $26 (9781101905111). Vera Longacre Bellington, the perfect society wife whom her exacting mother worked to mold, is the queen of [...]

Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss. By Frances Stroh. May 2016. 336p. Harper, $25.99 (9780062393159). 818. What distinguishes this family memoir from a host of others is the [...]

The Rocks. By Peter Nichols. May 2015. 432p. Riverhead, $27.95 (9781594633317). Set chiefly on Mallorca, this languorous novel begins in 2005 with a freak accident that kills British octogenarians Lulu [...]

Miss Julia Lays down the Law. By Ann B. Ross. Apr. 2015.307p. Viking, $26.95 (9780525427094). Newcomer Connie Clayborn ruffles a lot of feathers when she invites the ladies of Abbotsville [...]

The Road to Bittersweet. By Donna Everhart. Jan. 2018. 352p. Kensington, paper, $15.95 (9781496709493). The Stamper family is scattered when they are swept away in the catastrophic 1940 Tuckasegee River [...]

Winter Kept Us Warm. By Anne Raeff. Feb. 2018. 304p. Counterpoint, $26 (9781619028173). The winter that Ulli and American servicemen Isaac and Leo spend in an abandoned apartment in occupied [...]

Peculiar Ground. By Lucy Hughes Hallett. Jan. 2018. 464p. Harper, $28.99 (9780062684196). Hughes-Hallett's ambitious novel begins in 1663. The British monarchy has been restored after years of civil war. Norris, [...]

I, Eliza Hamilton. By Susan Holloway Scott. Oct. 2017. 450p. Kensington, paper, $15 (97814967125231. Elizabeth Schuyler was 20 when she met up-and-coming Alexander Hamilton. Scott begins her novel with that [...]

* A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf. By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney. Oct. 2017. 336p. illus. HMH, $27 [...]

* Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language. By Daniel Tammet. Sept. 2017. 288p. Little, Brown, $27 (9780316353052). 400. Diagnosed [...]

Unforgivable Love. By Sophfronia Scott. Sept. 2017. 544p. Morrow, paper, $15.99 (9780062655653). The classic French novel, Les liaisons dangere-uses, is the inspiration for Scott's (All I Need to Get By, [...]

The Address. By Fiona Davis. Aug. 2017. 368p. Dutton, $26 (97815247419901. Sara Smythe isn't entirely happy with her job as head housekeeper at London's prestigious Langham Hotel, so she jumps [...]

To Be Where You Are. By Jan Karon. Sept. 2017.304p. Putnam, $28 (9780399183737). 'Old priests never retire.' Father Tim Kavanagh, approaching 80 and retired for 12 years, is just starting [...]

Rebellion. By Molly Patterson. Aug. 2017. 560p. Harper, $26.99 (9780062574046). Pattersons remarkable debut follows four women from three generations and in two different parts of the world. Sisters Addie and [...]

The Wildling Sisters. By Eve Chase. June 2017. 336p. Putnam, $27 (9780399174131). The summer of 1959 is different from past summers the four Wilde sisters have spent at Applecote Manor [...]

* The Confusion of Languages. By Siobhan Fallon. June 2017.336p. Putnam, $26 (9780399158926). Shortly after the Arab Spring, Cassie Hughes and her husband, Dan, a foreign-affairs officer stationed at the [...]

Before We Were Yours. By Lisa Wingate. June 2017.352p. Ballantine, $26 (9780425284681). Newly engaged Avery Stafford leaves her job as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to go back home [...]

Mr. Rochester. By Sarah Shoemaker. May 2017.464p. Grand Central, $27 (9781455569809); e-book, $13.99 (97814555698231. Shoemaker gives Jane Eyre's Mr. Rochester a book of his own. There are hints of Jane's [...]

The Women in the Castle. By Jessica Shattuck. Apr. 2017. 368p. Morrow, $26.99 (9780062563668). The last party at the ancient von Lingenfels castle is the occasion of a meeting of [...]

Before the War. By Fay Weldon. Mar. 2017. 304p. St. Martin's, $26.99 (9781250121233). Weldon follows up her Dilberne Court trilogy, set during "the costume drama of Edwardian times," with a […]

The Heroes' Welcome. By Louisa Young. Mar. 2015. 272p. HarperPerennial, paper, $14.99 (9780062354495). It's 1919, and the characters Young introduced in My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You (2011) are [...]

* An Appetite for Violets. By Martine Bailey. Jan. 2015.400p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $26.99 (9781250056917). Set in the 1770s, Bailey's first novel centers on Biddy Leigh, undercook at Mawton Hall [...]

Everlasting Lane. By Andrew Lovett. Jan. 2015.368p. Melville, $25.95 (9781612193809). When nine-year-old Peter Lambert's father dies, he and his mother move to the village of Amberley and a cottage on […]

Her. By Harriet Lane. Jan. 2015. 272p. Little, Brown, $26 (9780316369879); e-book, $12.99 (9780316369893). What is it about Emma Nash that fascinates Nina Bremner? Nina, a successful landscape painter with […]

Before I Go. By Colleen Oakley. Jan. 2015. 320p. Gallery, $24.99 (9781476761664); e-book (9781476761688). Having survived breast cancer when she was 23, Daisy Richmond is shocked to discover, a few […]

Night Blindness. By Susan Strecker. Oct. 2014. 304p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.99 (9781250042835); e-book, $12.99 (9781466849617). Jensen Reilly blames herself for the accidental death of her brother, Will, when they […]

Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover. By Ann B. Ross. Apr. 2014. 296p.Viking, $26.95 (9780670026111). Miss Julia, that "lady of age with years of correct deportment behind her," is back for her […]

International Warbirds: An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1915-2001. By John C. Fredrickson. 2001. 385p. ABC-CLIO. $75 (1-57607-364-5); e-book, $100(1-57607-551-6). The aircraft of 21 nations is covered in this [...]

The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations. By Tony Reeves. 2001. 416p. A Cappella, $19.95 (1-55652-432-3). Here is the source to turn to if you want to know where the first [...]

The United States Marine Corps in Books and the Performing Arts. Comp. by Richard L. Hemenez. 2001. 736p. McFarland, $95 (0-7864-0758-1). This 'record of the popular history of the U.S. [...]

Career Opportunities in the Retail and Wholesale Industry. By Shelly Field. 2001. 278p. Facts On File, $49.50 (0-8160-4315-9). A new addition to the Career Opportunities series, profiling more than 80 [...]

Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art. By Richard C. Crandall and Susan M. Crandall. 2001. 464p. McFarland, $85 (0-7864-1007-8). Anyone with an interest in Inuit art will appreciate this annotated listing [...]

The Encyclopedia Mythica: An Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore, and Legend. By M. F. Lindemans. 1995-2001. [http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html]. We last looked at this site in our August 1998 issue. At that time, [...]

Mything Links: An Annotated and Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales and Folklore, Sacred Arts and Sacred Traditions. By Kathleen Jenks. 1998-2001. http://mythlinks.org]. Developed for graduate students [...]

Historical Dictionary of Byzantium. By John H. Rosser. 2001. 536p. Scarecrow, $85 (0-8108-3979-2). Number four in Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Eras covers Byzantium from its foundation in A.D. [...]

The Rough Guide to Reggae. 2d ed. By Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton. 2001. 496p. Rough Guides; dist. by Penguin, paper, $21.95 (1-85828-558-5). Though the first edition of 'the definitive [...]

Regional Theatre Directory, 2001-02, Ed. by Jill Charles. 2001. 180p. Theatre Directories, $19.95 (0-933919-49-2). Intended as an employment guide for performers, directors, designers, and production and management staff as well [...]