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The Darwin Strain: An R. J. MacCready Novel

By Bill Schutt - By J. R. Finch - Published 2019

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In 1948, as the cold war is taking off, U.S. Army Intelligence Captain “Mac” MacCready, and his friend and colleague, “Special Agent” Yanni ...Read Review

Smedley

By Jeff Mccomsey - Published 2019

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Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, is one of a number of famous fighting Marine Generals. This graphic novel begins in 1932 one year after ...Read Review

Assassin of Shadows

By Lawrence Goldstone - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

It’s September 1901 in Buffalo, New York, and US President William McKinley is shot by assassin and anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The initial prognosis ...Read Review

The Crossing at Cypress Creek (A Natchez Trace Novel)

By Pam Hillman - Published 2019

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Inspirational Romance

In 1790, living along the Mississippi River near the tiny but dangerous settlement of Cypress Creek, Alanah Adams is neither a bedraggled and crazy ...Read Review

The Absinthe Earl: The Faery Rehistory Series, Book 1

By Sharon Lynn Fisher - Published 2019

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Historical Fantasy

Dublin, Ireland, 1882: Miss Ada Quicksilver, “a quiet and unimportant English woman,” has just a touch of an Irish and mystical heritage in her ...Read Review

Honoring the Enemy: A Captain Peter Wake Novel

By Robert N. Macomber - Published 2019

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Adventure Military Nautical

U.S. Navy Captain Peter Wake of the Office of Naval Intelligence is tasked with assisting local patriots in Spanish-occupied Cuba in 1898. This ...Read Review

Napoleon’s Blackguards

By Stephen McGarry - Published 2019

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Adventure Military

In 1808, Napoleon invades Spain under a ruse, and the British Army prepares to meet him there. The French Army is the most formidable ...Read Review

Sarah’s War

By Eugenia Lovett West - Published 2019

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In 1777 an embryonic America is fighting a seemingly doomed battle for its existence. Seventeen-year-old fervent patriot Sarah Champion is sent from her Connecticut ...Read Review

Arise Crusader: Book I of the Lotharingian Chronicles

By Val Jensen II - Published 2018

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Epic Military

1096 France: young ploughman Anseau of Valois’ rustic but comfortable life is ripped asunder when it becomes known that he loves a local Jewish ...Read Review