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Wake

By Anna Hope - Published 2014

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London, November 1920. World War 1 is over, leaving a nation grieving for lost loved ones, many of whom have no known graves, and returning ...Read Review

My Name is Resolute

By Nancy E. Turner - Published 2014

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Turner’s engrossing novels always present hardy, intelligent women who endure challenging historical circumstances, and her fifth book is no exception. As Resolute ...Read Review

Silent We Stood

By Henry Chappell - Published 2013

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This novel is based on a true event: a fire occurring in Dallas, Texas in July 1860 in which three slaves were accused of ...Read Review

The Visionist

By Rachel Urquhart - Published 2014

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Three strong and haunting voices tell this tale set mostly among the Shakers of Massachusetts in the 1840s. The first voice is that ...Read Review

The Art of the Devil

By John Altman - Published 2014

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Thriller

It is 1955, and although America is at peace, not everyone in the halls of power is happy. A cabal of politicians and businessmen ...Read Review

Roosevelt’s Beast

By Louis Bayard - Published 2014

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LiteraryThriller

1914. Teddy Roosevelt is a Bull Moose without a cause. Defeated for re-election, he redirects his boundless energy into an expedition to chart the ...Read Review

Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commisario Ricciardi

By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Maurizio de Giovanni - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

Set in 1930s Naples, Italy, Everyone in Their Place features a remarkable protagonist in the shape of Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi. Ricciardi is ...Read Review

The Lie

By Helen Dunmore - Published 2014Published WSP15

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Literary

Cornwall 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the Great War as an infantryman; with his mother, his only relation, having died whilst he was serving ...Read Review

A Just and Upright Man

By R J Lynch - Published 2013

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Mystery/CrimeRomance

As overseer to Lord Ravenshead, James Blakiston is a busy man, but not too busy to take the time to solve the mystery ...Read Review

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

By Susan Jane Gilman - Published 2014

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Lillian Dunkle, celebrated matriarch of the ice cream business, recounts her life from penniless immigrant to food tycoon. Because it is written as ...Read Review