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The Stockwell Letters

By Jacqueline Friedland - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1854, the abolitionist movement in the United States had a cause célèbre: Anthony Burns. Having escaped enslavement in Virginia, Burns was ...Read Review

Shadows We Carry

By Meryl Ain - Published 2023

Genres:

Saga

Readers pick up the story of the Lubinski twins, Bronka and Johanna, in this sequel to The Takeaway Men. Now with the Second ...Read Review

Drawing Outside the Lines: A Julia Morgan Novel

By Susan Austin - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The opening of the magnificent Brooklyn Bridge in May 1883 meant more to eleven-year-old Julia Morgan than to anyone else in her family—although ...Read Review

The Lives of Diamond Bessie

By Jody Hadlock - Published 2022

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In 1860s New York, Annie Moore is sent to a convent for fallen women after getting pregnant out of wedlock. After the nuns ...Read Review

A Stream to Follow

By Jess Wright - Published 2022

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Set on the United States home front and in the World War II France and London of its protagonist’s memory, this is ...Read Review

Dovetails in Tall Grass

By Samantha Specks - Published 2021

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The personal stories of two young women representing clashing cultures, white settlers and Native Americans, are told in two viewpoints. We meet Emma ...Read Review

Malcolm and Me

By Robin Farmer - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1974 Philadelphia, thirteen-year-old Roberta Forest calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for being a slaveowner, and her eighth-grade teacher, Sister Elizabeth, retaliates by telling ...Read Review

Child Bride: A Novel

By Jennifer Smith Turner - Published 2020

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Turner, a poet, has written a lovely coming-of-age novel centered on Nell Jones, 16, the youngest child of twelve in an impoverished African American ...Read Review

The Takeaway Men

By Meryl Ain - Published 2020

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The Takeaway Men begins with Edyta, a Catholic teenager, busy smuggling Jewish toddlers out of the Kielce (Poland) ghetto to the safety of ...Read Review

Seventh Flag

By Sid Balman Jr. - Published 2019

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Four generations of two families from a small Texas town interact across time, beginning in 1948 and continuing to the 2000s, as well as ...Read Review