Beth Kanell
Home So Far Away
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Tracking the buildup toward World War II through the eyes of a German Jewish teen drawn to Spain and the advance of Communism ...Read Review
Death at the Manor
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What is it about Regency-period England that offers novels such ample space for personal effort and blossoming romance? Is it the fairy-tale possibilities? ...Read Review
Switchboard Soldiers
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In 1917, telephone operators made up a working group that was already female: “Number, please?” arrived in a woman’s voice to the early ...Read Review
Hot Time: A Mystery
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Though this is a debut novel, W. H. Flint is the pen name of a historian, and Hot Time rattles through tension and ...Read Review
Where the Road Bends
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This frontier novel suggests that prayer and strong motivation to reform can rescue the homeless and impoverished from a hard life and turn ...Read Review
My Name Is Yip
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Not since Mark Twain has a novel been written so effectively in “defective” English: the struggling and antiquated prose of a 15-year-old whose ...Read Review
The Unkept Woman (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery, 4)
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The Unkept Woman may be one of the most entertaining historical novels of the summer. Start with a marriage bureau, “The Right Sort,” ...Read Review
One-Shot Harry
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Harry Ingram knows the “rules” for a Black photographer in Los Angeles in 1963: cover events and people of your own color and get ...Read Review
Ursula’s Inheritance
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Civil War fiction welcomes a fresh approach in Eileen Charbonneau’s third book in her American Civil War Brides series, Ursula’s Inheritance. ...Read Review
The Maker of Swans
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Enter into the wild and chilled world of a grand rural property, somewhere in the dim reaches of the British Isles, where three ...Read Review
