Maria Hummel’s novel “Goldenseal” involves two female friends who meet up at a Los Angeles luxury hotel in 1990. Her two ...

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In 1924, the critic Gustave Geffroy recalled watching Claude Monet at work in London in 1900. Positioned by the Thames in early morning darkness, Monet peered through the fog, waiting for the ...

Angela Merkel’s memoir Freedom offers an unprecedented look into the life and mind of one of the world’s most influential leaders. Spanning her childhood in East Germany, the seismic events of 1989, ...

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Bestselling author Lisa Barr never expected to call her newest novel “eerily relevant” to modern times. Historical fiction, “The Goddess of Warsaw” is a compelling tale of Warsaw Ghetto ...

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Cincinnati author Sharon Draper's New York Times bestselling book is now a Disney movie. Draper's 2010 novel "Out of My Mind" follows 11-year-old Melody Brooks, an extremely smart student living ...