Kristen Hannum
Black Dove, White Raven
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Emilia’s and Teo’s mothers were stunt pilots, flying in 1920s airshows across America despite the Jim Crow laws that made it ...Read Review
Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire
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Everyone knows that the early Christians were mercilessly persecuted in the Roman world, simply because they wouldn’t worship pagan gods. Not so, ...Read Review
The Whispering Swarm: Book One of the Sanctuary of the White Friars
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I’ve read dozens of autobiographies and scores of fantasy books, but I’ve never come across one that was both before I ...Read Review
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
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The Beguines were laywomen who lived in productive Catholic communities – kind of like urban kibbutzim for women – from about 1200 on across Europe. They ...Read Review
The Reluctant Midwife
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Becky worked as a nurse for cold fish Dr. Isaac Blum for years in the 1920s, but as this novel begins, in the ...Read Review
Missing You in Atlantic City
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Middle-aged and out-of-shape Meg Daniels tags along with former private investigator Andy Beck, her boyfriend – how she hates that word! – on his trip ...Read Review
The Sharp Hook of Love
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Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d’Argenteuil’s tragic 12th-century Parisian romance is one of the most famous real love affairs ...Read Review
Mademoiselle Chanel
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Gabrielle Chanel, the destitute country orphan who remade herself into Coco Chanel, the 20th century’s most celebrated designer, lived a life of ...Read Review
The Garden of Letters
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Sweet-natured Elodie Bertolotti’s life as a teenaged cello prodigy in Verona, Italy, collapses in April 1943 after the fascist regime jails and beats ...Read Review
Elisha Magus
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Elisha, a barber-surgeon and powerful magus in an alternative 14th-century London, has killed the king and now finds himself at the center of ...Read Review
