Hyperion
Freedom’s School
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Lizzie and her brother, Paul, are the children of freed slaves. Until the Emancipation Proclamation, Lizzie gets by on scraps of learning from ...Read Review
Rose Under Fire
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Rose Justice is an eighteen-year-old American pilot who travels to England in August 1944 and joins the Air Transport Auxiliary. Rose, a budding poet, ...Read Review
Secrets and Sapphires
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Overall, this is an enjoyable story with an engaging and likeable heroine and lots of intrigue. Set in 1912, it follows Lady Ada Averley ...Read Review
The Time Keeper
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“Long ago, at the dawn of man’s history”, somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia, Dor is the first man on earth to devise ways ...Read Review
Jepp, Who Defied the Stars
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Jepp, Who Defied the Stars is a story about a little man who reminds us that anything is obtainable if you stay strong ...Read Review
Sutton
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer does not tell you a couple of things in his brief author’s note about the facts behind this ...Read Review
The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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Swedish noir may be a hot literary commodity, but apparently Swedish writers are also capable of producing humor on a grand scale. Jonas ...Read Review
Code Name Verity
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The first half of the story is told by ‘Verity’, who is being interrogated by the Gestapo. Writing is the small indulgence that ...Read Review
The Wild Rose
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Jennifer Donnelly’s The Wild Rose is the third of her celebrated “Rose” novels, and it is every bit as wonderful as the ...Read Review
The Soldier’s Wife
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When Guernsey is occupied in 1940, the islanders think it’s the beginning of the end. The Germans requisition houses for themselves, set up ...Read Review
