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After Oz

By Gordon McAlpine - Published 2024

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Poor little Dorothy Gale goes missing for four days after a twister devastates Sunbonnet, Kansas, in June 1896. When she’s found unharmed in ...Read Review

Ahoti: A Story of Tamar

By Eva Marie Everson - By Miriam Feinberg Vamosh - Published 2024

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Inspirational Romance

The Old Testament story of Princess Tamar, the only named daughter of the powerful King David, gets a fresh and expanded treatment from ...Read Review

The Widow Spy

By Megan Campisi - Published 2024

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Campisi’s premise is quite intriguing and based on a real situation: Kate Warne, Pinkerton’s first female detective and a Union spy, ...Read Review

Lucifer & the Great Baltimore Brawl

By Howard Weinstein - Published 2023

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Western

A sequel to Galloway’s Gamble, this adventure has the Texas Galloway brothers, Jamey and Jake, involved in a horseracing scheme that includes ...Read Review

Starring Adele Astaire

By Eliza Knight - Published 2023

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Biographical Fiction

This charming, witty, and absorbing novel centers on the talented dancer/actress Adele Astaire, who wowed audiences performing with her later more famous ...Read Review

Lilith

By Nikki Marmery - Published 2023

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Literary

Feminist in outlook and tone, Marmery’s well-researched novel relates the creation, banishment, and subsequent wanderings over time of the legendary Lilith, the ...Read Review

Silent Came the Monster

By Amy Hill Hearth - Published 2023

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Thriller

Hearth’s fictional treatment of an actual series of brutal shark attacks that terrified people along the popular beaches of New Jersey’s ...Read Review