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The Good Lord Bird
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Was John Brown a terrorist, martyr, hero, lunatic, saint or deluded fool? After reading The Good Lord Bird I would still hesitate to ...Read Review
In the Shadow of Blackbirds
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In 1918 San Diego, the population lives in fear: fear of the deadly Spanish influenza, and fear of the brutal war that is raging ...Read Review
Murder as a Fine Art
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It’s 1854 in London, and a murderer has just carefully recreated the most heinous mass murder of that century, a brutal, senseless slaughter ...Read Review
The Collector of Lost Things
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In 1845, mankind’s wholesale, careless despoiling of the Arctic is underway. Collector Eliot Saxby has taken passage hoping to find survivors of the ...Read Review
Carver’s Quest
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This is the first novel from the author of 100 Must-Read Historical Novels, and Rennison has clearly used his wide reading wisely to craft ...Read Review
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
