Beth Kanell

The Deliverance of Barker McRae

By Stacia Pelletier - Published 2025

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Trigger warning: Barker McRae’s 1833 departure from her uncle’s harsh Georgia home can only improve her life, because of the abuse of ...Read Review

The Far Reach of Yesterday

By Christine Echeverria Bender - Published 2025

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AdventureTime-slipWestern

This time-slip novel asks the reader to accept a great deal—while making it clear that Rachel Winston must accept at least twice ...Read Review

Crown City (A Japantown Mystery)

By Naomi Hirahara - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

Naomi Hirahara’s two recent “Japantown” mysteries wove criminal investigation into the World War II-era lives of Japanese immigrants and their American-born families ...Read Review

The Lost Masterpiece

By B.A. Shapiro - Published 2025

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Literary

B. A. Shapiro’s critical acclaim for The Art Forger gives her a high bar to clear with her new multiple-narrator book tackling ...Read Review

The Spartan Sacrifice (A Jump in Time, 4)

By Andrew Varga - Published 2025

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Children/Young AdultTime-slip

This fourth in a series of time-jumping novels takes 17-year-old Dan Renfrew to the year 480 BC, just in time to witness the most ...Read Review

Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie

By James Lee Burke - Published 2025

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Western

Texas Rangers, battles with an oil company, and the social ructions as the 19th century collapses into the 20th: James Lee Burke piles ...Read Review

That Which Binds Us

By Cathy Rigg - Published 2025

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AdventureMilitarySaga

The debut novel from Cathy Rigg comes with fine polish and skill, spun across five characters in the approach to, endurance through, and ...Read Review

Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue

By Buddy Levy - Published 2025

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AdventureNonfiction

Buddy Levy’s previous retellings of history’s “big adventures” provide a strong foundation for the way he evokes personalities, ambitions, pain, despair, ...Read Review

Murder at King’s Crossing (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery)

By Andrea Penrose - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

This Wrexford and Sloane Regency mystery, eighth in the series, entangles the exhilarating family of the Earl of Wrexford and his (secret editorial ...Read Review

The Great When: A Long London Novel

By Alan Moore - Published 2024

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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime

Long paragraphs and unusual sentence constructions make immersion into The Great When challenging. Teenaged Dennis Knuckleyard works in a secondhand bookstore in a ...Read Review