Thomas j. Howley

The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

By James L. Haley - Published 2016

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AdventureNautical

An award-winning historian who also writes fiction can be expected to deliver excellence, and Haley doesn’t disappoint. In reply to currently popular ...Read Review

The Wolves of Currumpaw

By William Grill - Published 2016

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Children/Young AdultWestern

Half a million wild wolves once roamed freely across North America. There are about 9,000 left today. Set in New Mexico during the closing ...Read Review

An Irish Country Love Story

By Patrick Taylor - Published 2016

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This newest edition in a long-running, very successful series is actually a collection of interconnected love stories, and not just the romantic kind. ...Read Review

The Jealous Kind

By James Lee Burke - Published 2016Published 2017

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Mystery/CrimeThriller

Forget the “Happy Days” of the carefree 1950s. Shortly after WWII, Houston, Texas is a simmering cauldron of mayhem, hatred, and incessant violence. ...Read Review

House of the Rising Sun

By James Lee Burke - Published 2016

Genres:

Western

Part of a series by veteran and best-selling author James Lee Burke, this novel presents the seemingly incessant travails of its protagonist, erstwhile ...Read Review

Valley of the Moon

By Melanie Gideon - Published 2016

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Time-slip

Lux is a single mom, with a penchant for making bad life decisions, living in the San Francisco area in the 1970s. She ...Read Review

Ithaca

By Patrick Dillon - Published 2016

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Epic

Updating the second oldest extant work of Western literature, Homer’s Odyssey, seems a daunting task, but the author entertainingly succeeds. The novel ...Read Review

Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Years: Timbuktu

By Vasudev Murthy - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

Presumed dead between 1891 and 1894, Sherlock Holmes was actually engaged in international intrigue across Europe and North Africa in this well-researched novel. At the ...Read Review

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

This splendid biography by award-winning book author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Timothy Egan brings us the life story of an improbable and genuine ...Read Review

The Blood Red City

By Justin Richards - Published 2016

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Alternate History

In this alternate history and science fiction-themed novel, the WWII British special operators at Station Z are battling both Nazis and the alien ...Read Review