2013
Let Him Go
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Watson’s latest tale of longing and desperation returns readers to the familiar surroundings of the mid-20th century American West. Margaret Blackledge ...Read Review
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl
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Fiction meets history, meets steampunk, meets gothic horror in David Barnett’s page-turning romp though a Victorian world where the British are poised ...Read Review
Rachel’s Promise
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This is a wrenching story of a Russian-Jewish family fleeing the pogroms of the early 20th century, the second novel in a planned ...Read Review
What’s in a Surname? A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker
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Most of us have some idea of the origin of our own family names. This fascinating book covers the growth and changing patterns ...Read Review
Triangle Trade
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1805. When Lieutenant William King is relieved of his command in the Royal Navy, he returns home to Liverpool where his father, George King, ...Read Review
The Cult of Nostalgia
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This debut novel is an eclectic multi-period mix of romance, comedy, travelogue and an invocation of Jazz Age literary Paris. In Noughties San ...Read Review
Moonfleet
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This is a first-rate adventure story, beautifully set in an 18th-century Dorset fishing community, with tales of skulduggery, smuggling, hidden treasure, greed, treachery, ...Read Review
The Boy on the Wooden Box
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This inspiring memoir is a perfect way to introduce young children to Holocaust literature. Leon Leyson was born Leib Lejzon in a rural ...Read Review
Daughters of the Nile
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This final volume of the Cleopatra’s Daughter trilogy continues the story of the life of Selene, beginning in the year 19 BC. She ...Read Review
Hannah of Santiago: The Adventures of an English Woman in a Spanish Colony
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In 1626, Englishwoman Hannah Fisk accompanies her father to the New World, but the voyage ends tragically. Pirates attack their vessel, Hannah’s father ...Read Review