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Sofia’s Tune: Ellis Island Book 3

By Cindy Thomson - Published 2015

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Cindy Thomson finishes her Ellis Island series by concentrating this time on Italian immigrants and their experiences in New York’s Little Italy, ...Read Review

Stolen Memories

By Mary Miley - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

Eva Johnson, the main character in Mary Miley’s gripping new 1920s-set book Stolen Memories, begins the novel’s events at rock-bottom: she ...Read Review

The Seventh Son: The Norman Conquest Series, Book 4

By Ashley York - Published 2016

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Romance

Ashley York puts a pair of star-crossed lovers at the center of the latest installment in her Norman Conquest series. In Ireland of 1075, ...Read Review

Son of the Sphinx

By Cheryl Carpinello - Published 2014

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Adventure Children/Young Adult Time-slip

Ancient history and fantasy mingle in Sons of the Sphinx, the latest in Cheryl Carpinello’s Quest series. Fifteen-year-old Rosa is visited by ...Read Review

Deadly Secret of the Lusitania

By Ivan Light - Published 2015

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Nautical Thriller

Ivan Light’s debut novel Deadly Secret of the Lusitania joins the long shelf of books about the sinking of the civilian passenger ...Read Review

Regarding Tiberius

By Helena Mithridates Kleopatra - Published 2015

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Biographical Fiction

This big, richly atmospheric novel, “written” by Helena Mithridates Kleopatra, Crown Princess of Eupatoria in the Roman province of Pontus, with an “original ...Read Review

The Breaking of Dawn (The Kingdom of Mercia, Book 1)

By Jayne Castel - Published 2015

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Jayne Castel maps a classic troubled love story onto a much broader canvas of war and political intrigue in the first of her “...Read Review

A Man without a Mistress (The Penningtons, Book Two)

By Bliss Bennet - Published 2015

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Romance

“A man determined to atone for the past by immersing himself in political work — and by avoiding all entanglements with the ladies of ...Read Review

The Renegade Queen (Rebellious Times, Book 1)

By Eva Flynn - Published 2015

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This amazingly good debut novel by Eva Flynn stars Victoria Woodhull, a figure so outrageous and improbable that most of Flynn’s readers ...Read Review

Lady Chance (Regency Ladies in Distress, Book 2)

By Shannon Donnelly - Published 2015

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Romance

Shannon Donnelly’s “Regency Ladies in Distress” series continues with this lively, fast-paced story of Diana, Lady Chauncey, known as “Lady Chance,” whose ...Read Review

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