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Angelica: A Novel
by Arthur Phillips
From the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear. The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the Barton household on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter... (more)
The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis
by Michael Pritchett
Massive debts and alcoholism. Drug abuse and failed courtships. And then, dead by his own hand, just three years after his triumphant return from the Pacific. thus, on October 11, 1809, Meriwether Lewis became the tragic hero of one of the great untold stories of American history. Now, for the 200th annivesary of his death, Bill Lewis, a high-school history teacher, is writing a book about his famous... (more)