Fiona Ness
Speak Right On: Conjuring the Slave Narrative of Dred Scott
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Readers may know the name of Dred Scott from the infamous 1857 legal case in which the US Supreme Court handed down a ruling ...Read Review
Grimm Patriot
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David Arndt’s debut novel, Grimm Patriot, follows young Joseph Grimm, who in 1775 decides to enlist in the newly-formed Continental Marines, leaving behind ...Read Review
Alligator Creek
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The home front experience of the South in the final years of the American Civil War takes center stage in Lottie Guttry’s ...Read Review
Helena Landless
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Charles Dickens’s last and famously unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood receives a very smart and entertaining pastiche treatment in Deanna ...Read Review
The Blue Hour
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Set in 1861, Emily Wainwright is a 26-year-old spinster at the center of Vicki Righettini’s debut novel, The Blue Hour. Emily is living ...Read Review
Becoming Valley Forge
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In her epic-length novel Becoming Valley Forge, Sheilah Vance dramatizes the horrific depredations experienced by George Washington’s Continental Army as it endured ...Read Review
Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Vol. 1: Rise to Riches
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Neal Katz’s richly-textured, impressive debut Outrageous takes as its subject the early life and adventures of Victoria Claflin Woodhull and her sister ...Read Review
Love Is Not Proud
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Monica Spence’s slim debut novel starts off with scream. On a moonlit night in 1536 in Florence, Marco de Medici, a scion of ...Read Review
Who Knew Not Joseph
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“The history of the Hebrew nation from its peak of contentment to its descent into slavery. Through Yoram’s eyes and tribulations, Who ...Read Review
Incident at Jonesborough
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As General Sherman makes clear at one point in Chaz Osburn’s slim, intensely good debut Incident at Jonesborough, the Georgia town outside ...Read Review
