Wait. Wait. A Victorian-era romance about an equestrienne and a tailor? Written by an author I can trust to do her research? Be still my beating heart! (Horses and historical dressmaking, two of my favorite things – but also so often gotten SO WRONG.) Some years back, I read a different Mimi Matthews book, and although her writing was excellent, I wanted to smack the characters for not communicating. There was a tiny bit of that here, but I found it believable given what the characters have to overcome (differences of class, race, and experience, as Evie is an English…
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It seems like a list of staff picks for the year should include a lot of books published in 2014, but what can I say, we are all slowly (hopelessly) playing catchup with the last few centuries of English Lit!I've included in the list which sections we file them in at Pegasus; though some of these aren't terribly common, so, as always, if you can't find it on our shelves, please ask and we'll order it for you! And if you don't live locally, please remember to support your favorite independent bookstore.--EmmaEmma's PicksConservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee. SCIENCE…
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