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The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
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New Year’s Eve in London of 1887 is delightful only for the wealthy. Nasty weather, miserable air, street thugs, and poor housing make ...Read Review
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
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Seeing this biographical novel about Hattie McDaniel, you may initially assume it traces her journey from her humble Wichita origins through her groundbreaking ...Read Review
Murder by Lamplight (A Dr. Julia Lewis Mystery)
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In November 1866, Dr. Julia Lewis is called to examine a corpse in the last unfinished section of London’s new sewer project. The ...Read Review
The Phoenix Crown
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On April 4, 1906, 32-year-old opera singer Gemma Garland arrives in San Francisco, hopeful that her new contract with the Metropolitan Opera traveling company will ...Read Review
Wild and Distant Seas
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Nantucket. Moby-Dick. Four generations of women who blossom via an inner force that’s part insight, part magic; the rediscovery of a father ...Read Review
Clear
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It is 1843, and John Ferguson, an impoverished minister of the newly established Free Church of Scotland, is forced to take any work he ...Read Review
Lady Codebreaker
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Alden’s new novel inhabits the world of significant U.S. military and political events in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, including the ...Read Review
Bonfire Night
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“Ambition” is the first word of Anna Bliss’s tightly structured and beautifully written novel opening in London in October 1936. Oswald Mosley’s ...Read Review
Iwo, 26 Charlie: A Novel (P. T. Deutermann WWII Novels)
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It’s February 1945, and the savage battle for the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is about to transform into a hellscape for tens ...Read Review
The Mayor of Maxwell Street
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Upon the death of her older brother, Nelly Sawyer becomes heir to her family’s Kentucky horse breeding estate and the premier debutante ...Read Review
