Kristen Hannum
The Last Green Valley
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It’s a question of survival in 1944 as Emil and Adeline Martel forge west with their two young sons, fleeing Stalin under the ...Read Review
Root Magic
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Root Magic begins with eleven-year-old Jezebel Turner at her grandmother’s burial in 1963 in the marshy South Carolina Lowcountry, along with her twin, ...Read Review
First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
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This eye-opening look at the world of U.S. newspapers and the anti-slavery movement in the decades before the Civil War is an ...Read Review
Pont Neuf
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This atmospheric and intelligent novel of World War II boasts both insightful glimpses of Martha Gellhorn (Ernest Hemingway’s third wife) and battle ...Read Review
Ace Boon Coon (Tales of Elliot Caprice)
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Author Danny Gardner immediately plunges readers into the thick of the action in Ace Boon Coon. The book is his second novel featuring ...Read Review
Play the Red Queen
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A couple of cops with the Army’s Criminal Investigations Division in Saigon, 1963, are charged with stopping “the red queen,” a femme fatale ...Read Review
The Red Horse (A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery)
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It’s 1944, and U.S. Army investigator Billy Boyle is a patient at Saint Albans, a high-security convalescent hospital outside London. Boyle is ...Read Review
The German Client: A Bacci Pagano Investigation
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Many of the features of this suspenseful, hard-boiled Italian noir, set in Genoa in 1944 and the present day, will be familiar to mystery ...Read Review
The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar
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From its first pages, The Last Assassin is a trustworthy and compelling read, qualities the best histories share. I thought I’d dipped ...Read Review
Under the Tulip Tree
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In racist Jim Crow Nashville, 1936, 23-year-old Lorena Leland’s family is in trouble. They still live in a grand house in a good ...Read Review