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The Postmistress
Sarah Blake
Putnam, 9780399156199, $25.95

Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, this is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women – and of two countries torn apart by war.

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The Devil & Sherlock Holmes
David Grann
Doubleday, 9780385517928, $26.95

Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z offers a collection of spellbinding essays. Throughout, Grann's hypnotic accounts display the power – and often the willful perversity – of the human spirit.

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The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes
Vintage Books, 9781400031870, $17.95

The Age of Wonder is a riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science – a period where such discoveries and intentions sent ripples across everything from literature to industry to religion.

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The Dreamer
Pam Munoz Ryan & Peter Sis
Scholastic Press, 9780439269704, $17.99

This moving story about the birth of an artist is also a celebration of childhood, imagination, and the strength of the creative spirit. Ryan weaves sound poems and thought-provoking questions into her exquisitely crafted prose while Sis's delicate drawings transport readers to the lushness of the Chilean rainforest.

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