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Black Powder
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Rabin writes an intriguing young adult novel which addresses the pertinent issue of youth gang violence. In 2010, teenager Langston Davis witnesses the ...Read Review
Endymion Spring
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(1) Endymion Spring, apprentice to the famous printer Gutenberg, has to flee for his life when he is entrusted with a mysterious blank book ...Read Review
The Golden Hour
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After the sudden death of their mother, Rowan and Nina Popplewell are packed off to Maine to spend a month in a ...Read Review
The Hour of the Cobra
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Twins Xavier and Xanthe Alexander travel back in time to the Egypt of Cleopatra, via the magical “alleviators” discovered in a mysterious ...Read Review
Marriage, a History : How Love Conquered Marriage
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This is a scholarly book with pizzazz. The author reports on marriage practices and laws from ancient Babylon to the present. The ...Read Review
Saving the World
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This book is composed of several layers, like a torte. In present-day America we have Alma, turning fifty, depressed and lost; we ...Read Review
Royal Panoply : Brief Lives of the English Monarchs
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Somehow Erickson manages, in the space she permits herself, to give us vignettes about 40 English monarchs from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth ...Read Review
Uncertain Pilgrims
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This story, a contemporary novel sprinkled with rich historical detail, centers on healing, fresh perspectives and starting anew. After tragedy strikes the ...Read Review
10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America
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This nonfiction work does not include the obvious, such as July 4, 1776, December 7, 1941, or other dates on which world-shaking events took place. The ...Read Review
The Ghost Orchid
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This suspenseful novel is set at an artists’ colony in Saratoga in upstate New York. The action alternates between the 1890s, when ...Read Review
