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Chicago Review

Roads

By Marina Antropow Cramer - Published 2017

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“Under the surface, they felt the whirling currents pull at their bodies, twisting their clothing as if demanding ransom for the passage. I ...Read Review

Maiden Flight

By Harry Haskell - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This story highlights the unique contributions that Katherine Wright made in the lives of her more famous brothers, Wilbur and Orville. Told in ...Read Review

One Man’s War

By P. M. Kippert - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction Military

Based on his father’s account of service during World War II, P.M. Kippert has written a heartrending account of “tip of ...Read Review

Death of a Siren

By William S. Schaill - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

This is a well-paced detective story set in the pre-World War II Galapagos. Fred Freiman is a former New York cop on the ...Read Review

The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton

By Diane Atkinson - Published 2013 Published 2014

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Nonfiction

Caroline Norton was a brilliant and beautiful woman, a descendant of Richard Sheridan, the playwright, and a poetess and novelist in her own ...Read Review

Rose Cottage

By Mary Stewart - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

A couple of years after World War II has ended, Kate Herrick is living in London, alone, her husband having been killed in ...Read Review

Testimony of Two Men

By Taylor Caldwell - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

Rereading a popular novel forty years after publication is a unique experience. Then it was just a gripping read, an intriguing story about ...Read Review

Calico Palace

By Gwen Bristow - Published 2009

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Romance Western

Two women meet in a village of 900 people in 1848 California. Kendra reluctantly accompanies her stepfather, who is an army officer assigned to what ...Read Review

The President’s Daughter

By Barbara Chase-Riboud - Published 2009

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Biographical Fiction

Harriet Hemings Jefferson, the secret daughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, lives a shadowed life best summarized by a quote from Voltaire ...Read Review