Genevieve Valentine

'The Mirror & The Light' Is A Triumphant End To A Spellbinding Story

Genevieve Valentine

In this new novel, Hilary Mantel brings her award-winning trilogy on the life of Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell to an end. And even though readers know how this story will end, it's still gripping.

Centuries Of Debutantes Dish About Being Put On Display In 'The Season'

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Kristen Richardson traces the history of the practice, with firsthand accounts from diaries and letters, finding political strife, social upheaval and machinations to keep out so-called undesirables.

'On The Backs Of Tortoises' Challenges Us To Consider How Much Of Life Is Intertwined

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Nominally an environmental and social history of the Galápagos Islands, it lays bare the entangled issues confronting us as we attempt conservation efforts while facing a sweeping ecological crisis.

Blending Memoir And Reporting, 'The In-Betweens' Exposes An Otherworldly Community

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Mira Ptacin spends time at Camp Etna and finds herself believing, at least, in the ideals of Spiritualism — emphasizing kindness, the importance of intuition, and the power of the unseen.

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'Floating Coast' Reads Like A Eulogy To The Natural World — With A Sliver Of Hope

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The triumph of this book is how Bathsheba Demuth pulls seemingly disparate threads together into a net of actions and consequences from which the whales, the Yupik, and our children can't escape.

'The Plaza' Is A Nostalgic Look At The History Of New York's Most Famous Hotel

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Julie Satow's book reads like the biography of a distant relative as much as the history of a landmark building; the author argues that no other building so directly reflects the city itself.

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'Ungovernable' Brings Up Grim Realities Of Victorian Child Rearing

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Therese Oneill's new book presents plenty of suitably eyebrow-raising excerpts, but amid the snark at parenthood past and present, there are some unavoidable issues that come at a fraught time.