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Darkling

By Laura Beatty - Published 2014

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Mia Morgan is researching the life of Lady Brilliana Harley, 17th-century Puritan and now known mostly for the letters she wrote to her ...Read Review

Alias Hook

By Lisa Jensen - Published 2013 Published 2014

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Adventure Historical Fantasy

Jensen flips the Peter Pan story we are all familiar with, making Captain Hook the sympathetic hero and Peter a bratty child tyrant. ...Read Review

Above the East China Sea

By Sarah Bird - Published 2014

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This novel opens in 1945 as Tamiko, fifteen years old and pregnant, jumps from Okinawa Island’s Suicide Cliffs, which loom above the East ...Read Review

The String Diaries

By Stephen Lloyd Jones - Published 2014

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Historical Fantasy Thriller

A centuries-old evil stalks Hannah Wilde, an evil that purports to love her, just as it has all the women in her family ...Read Review

Chateau of Secrets

By Melanie Dobson - Published 2014

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Inspirational Romance

Dobson’s latest historical novel for Christian imprint Howard Books features an appealing dual timeframe. In 1940 Normandy, young noblewoman Gisele Duchant waits in ...Read Review

Seventeen Coffins

By Philip Caveney - Published 2014

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Adventure Children/Young Adult Time-slip

Tom Affleck’s first time-slip adventure, Crow Boy, took him back to 1645, to an Edinburgh ravaged by bubonic plague, where he met the ...Read Review

The Angel of Losses

By Stephanie Feldman - Published 2014

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Literary Mystery/Crime

Stephanie Feldman’s debut novel, The Angel of Losses, weaves fable, family, religion and mystery together as she tells the story of two ...Read Review

Secrets of the Terra Cotta Soldier

By Vinson Compestine - By Ying Chang Compestine - Published 2014

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Children/Young Adult

A Chinese officer serving in 200 B.C.E. under Emperor Chu’u yearns for battle, but has long been assigned only to “boring” ...Read Review

The Johnstown Girls

By Kathleen George - Published 2014

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Literary

The Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood of 1889 remains one of the deadliest weather-related disasters in United States history, killing more than 2,200 and leaving the town ...Read Review

The History Keepers: Nightship to China

By Damian Dibben - Published 2014

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Adventure Children/Young Adult Time-slip

The third book in The History Keepers series will not disappoint its readers as the adventure continues taking Jake Djones time-travelling from Shakespeare’...Read Review