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The Murderess

By Laurie Notaro - Published 2024

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Winnie Ruth Judd, a 26-year-old medical secretary, wife to Dr. William Judd and infamous murderess of the title, is the subject of Notaro’...Read Review

A Castle in Brooklyn

By Shirley Russak Wachtel - Published 2022

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1944. Eighteen-year-old Jacob is hiding from Nazis on a Polish farm. When twelve-year-old Zalman seeks shelter there, Jacob first feels burdened by responsibility, then ...Read Review

The Woman in the Moonlight

By Patricia Morrisroe - Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

This is a fictional biography of Countess Giulietta (Julie) Guicciardi, to whom Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata was dedicated in 1802. Little is known about ...Read Review

How Fires End

By Marco Rafalà - Published 2019

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David Vassallo is a teenager growing up in Little Melilli in Middletown, Connecticut. He is the object of a familial promise of revenge ...Read Review

The Blue Period

By Luke Jerod Kummer - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

Pablo Picasso meets the troubled writer, poet, and painter Carles Casagemas in Barcelona in 1899, in Els Gats, the watering hole and gathering place ...Read Review

Bury What We Cannot Take

By Kirstin Chen - Published 2018

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Literary

1957: Drum Wave Islet in Xiamen, central China is a place where Communism has been fully incorporated into every facet of politics, the economy, ...Read Review

The Man Who Could Be King

By John Ripin Miller - Published 2017

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Biographical Fiction

In 1843, Josiah Penn Stockbridge, one of General Washington’s former senior aides, is penning notes for his great-grandchildren about his experiences with the ...Read Review

Kings of Broken Things

By Theodore Wheeler - Published 2017

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Kings of Broken Things is set in Omaha, Nebraska, from the last years of the first World War in 1917 through the Red Summer ...Read Review

The Practice House

By Laura McNeal - Published 2017

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The dusty Great Plains of Kansas provides a stark backdrop to an unconventional love story set in the early 1930s. Aldine McKenna and ...Read Review

Man Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal

By Harold Schechter - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

Alfred (or possibly Alferd) Packer was a former Union soldier turned drifter who sought his fortune in Colorado by prospecting for silver. He ...Read Review