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The Blood of Heaven
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The son of a fire-eating Baptist preaching his way across the post-Revolutionary backwoods, Angel Woolsack has learned his father’s trade well. In ...Read Review
The Message on the Quilt
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Emilie Rhodes is a newspaperwoman at heart. Unfortunately, in 1890s Nebraska, there’s no such thing. Newspapermen, including Emilie’s father, run the ...Read Review
Sugar Pop Moon
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Set in both 1906 and 1930, this story centers on Jersey Leo, also known as Snowball, an albino bartender of mixed race in Prohibition-era New ...Read Review
A Far Piece to Canaan
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Young Sam Zelinsky is the son of Jewish sharecroppers in Kentucky in 1945—a situation that author Sam Halpern writes about with authority, since ...Read Review
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
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Leganski has created a tale filled with the languid charm and mysticism of the Louisiana bayou. Her story of little Bonaventure, born posthumously ...Read Review
The Fifth Knight
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Originally released as a Kindle Serial, The Fifth Knight is a handy twist on the Becket murder and is, from this reader’s ...Read Review
The Red Kimono
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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, killing the father of a young African-American, Terence – who flies out of his house in ...Read Review
The Forbidden Queen
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This superb novel tells the story of Katherine de Valois, whom history has by and far neglected. Katherine, the daughter of Charles VI ...Read Review
The Child Thief
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In the winter of 1930, the inhabitants of Vyriv, a tiny village in the western Ukraine, wait uneasily for the Red Army advancing across ...Read Review
Benjamin Franklin’s Bastard
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Sally Cabot’s Benjamin Franklin’s Bastard is an outstanding work of historical fiction, filled with characters so lifelike and true that the ...Read Review
