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The Safekeep

By Yael van der Wouden - Published 2024

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The Netherlands in the spring of 1961. Isabel Den Brave, aged 30, lives alone in her deceased parents’ house in Zwolle in the east of ...Read Review

The Curse of Pietro Houdini

By Derek B. Miller - Published 2024

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German-occupied Italy, 1943. Having witnessed his parents’ death in a bombing raid on Rome, Massimo (aged 14) flees south to relatives in Naples. On the ...Read Review

A Short Walk Through A Wide World

By Douglas Westerbeke - Published 2024

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Historical Fantasy

In 1885 Belle Époque Paris, selfish, ungrateful nine-year-old Aubry Tourvel finds a wooden puzzle ball on a dead man’s doorstep. She picks it ...Read Review