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Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
Music specialists and casual readers will find this an absorbing account of Rachmaninoff’s years in exile.
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Kubrick: An Odyssey
An admiring look at a fascinating figure. Likely to be the definitive word on Kubrick for years to come.
How To Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
This treatise on Renaissance beauty highlights similarities to contemporary beauty standards. There’s appeal for casual readers, but the real value is for academics.
Disobedient
Fremantle’s characterizations and descriptions of life in 17th-century Rome are word paintings as vivid as Artemisia’s, and the gripping, well-constructed plot will captivate historical-fiction and suspense readers from the first page.
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Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up in the Royal Family, from the Tudors to the Cambridges
Scholarly in tone, yet gossipy at times. A solid but lackluster history of childrearing in the royal family over the centuries.
Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art
Absorbing and informative, this title is cultural history at its best.
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American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America
A fascinating, eminently readable exploration of Viking presence, both real and imaginary, in the United States.
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A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation
With authoritative narrative in each essay, this book won’t make readers love these scoundrels of U.S. history, but they might just learn something new and find some humanity in them.
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The Second Stranger
Uneven pacing and several glaring inconsistencies impede some of the suspense, but fans of plot twists and isolated settings will find something to enjoy. Recommended for larger public libraries.
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