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Ancient World (Other)

Daughter of Black Lake: A Novel

By Cathy Marie Buchanan - Published 2020

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Britain, first century AD. Hobble lives in a secluded community. Years ago, her grandfather and uncles went off to battle the invading Romans, ...Read Review

Ambush

By Hongcheng Yu - Published 2020

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Children/Young Adult

Two thousand years ago the Qin Empire in China was overthrown. Civil war erupted. The Chu Kingdom, led by Xiang Yu, and the ...Read Review

The Wall of Willows (Magic Mirror)

By Luther Tsai - By Nury Vittachi - Published 2020

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Children/Young Adult Time-slip

Modern-day middle schoolers Marko and Miranda use their grandfather’s magic mirror to journey back in time to 210 BCE China. The first Chinese ...Read Review

Clan

By Sigmund Brouwer - Published 2020

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Children/Young Adult

Crippled from a childhood injury, Atlatl is unable to hunt with the other men. While he’s smart, it takes hunting prowess to ...Read Review

A Dreidel in Time: A New Spin on an Old Tale

By Marcia Berneger - Published 2019

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Children/Young Adult Time-slip

Devorah and Benjamin are eager for presents on the first night of Hanukkah. Before they are allowed to open their gifts, their grandparents ...Read Review

Neander

By Harald Johnson - Published 2019

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Time-slip

Tom Cook, a journalist for Science Alive, is on assignment in Gibraltar photographing an excavation and writing about the discovery of a Neanderthal ...Read Review

The Book of Science and Antiquities

By Thomas Keneally - Published 2019

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Literary

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Shelby Apple is approaching the end of his days after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2015. As he contemplates his ...Read Review

The Peregrine’s Odyssey: Burnt Offerings – A Novel of Early Christianity

By Michael Kleinfall - Published 2019

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Inspirational

During the first 20 years of the 2nd century AD, Gaius Segusiavus Peregrinus is torque-bearer of the Gallic clan based near Lugdunum (Lyon, France). ...Read Review

Swallow’s Dance

By Wendy Orr - Published 2018

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Children/Young Adult

Prolific children’s author Wendy Orr beckons us back 4,000 years to Minoan Greece, when mortals believed in many gods, and omens, prayer and ...Read Review

Sorcery in Alpara (Tesha Series)

By Judith Starkston - Published 2019

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Historical Fantasy

Sorcery in Alpara is the second book in the Tesha series, a historical fantasy loosely based on 13th-century BC Bronze Age Hittites and ...Read Review