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The Insurrectionist
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In May 1856, Charles Sumner was caned on the Senate floor by Preston Brooks, which would set off a firestorm that raged between abolitionist ...Read Review
Fire Angels
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On December 1, 1958, a fire devastated Our Lady of Angels elementary school on Chicago’s northwest side. Kern’s novel covers the event from ...Read Review
In Praise of Angels
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In Praise of Angels covers the years shortly after the Civil War, when Reconstruction brings political struggles over the status of the Confederate ...Read Review
Prisoners
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Burt Zollo’s debut novel is set in Le Mans, France in 1945. It is the story of a 19-year-old Jewish American POW camp ...Read Review
Cutter’s Island: Caesar in Captivity
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On the way to Rhodes to further his study of rhetoric, Julius Caesar is captured by pirates and held for ransom. At this ...Read Review
The Long Journey Home
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After a lengthy tour of duty in the Civil War, Henry Morton returns to his home in Minnesota hoping to resume his life ...Read Review
Wave of Terror
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Like much of what went on in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist years, Wave of Terror is a revelation. Odrach experienced ...Read Review
English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
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The cover of this slim, informative volume suggests at first glance something in the spirit of A’Beckett’s The Comic History of ...Read Review
Saga: A Novel of Medieval Iceland
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Though this first novel is saddled with an unimaginative title and a host of similarly named and motivated characters, it is a compelling ...Read Review
A Fly Has a Hundred Eyes
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Lily Sampson is an American archaeologist assigned to assist at a dig in Palestine during the turmoil of the late 1930s. Horrific riots, ...Read Review
