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Shoes for Anthony

By Emma Kennedy - Published 2016Published 2017

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The families living in a small Welsh village in the year 1944 eat and dress poorly. Eleven-year-old Anthony’s brothers work in the mines, ...Read Review

Nzinga: African Warrior Queen

By Moses L. Howard - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction

From 1583 to 1663, Nzinga watched, listened and grew into her final role as Ngola, or Queen of Angola. Her father, the elder Ngola or ...Read Review

The Thief’s Daughter

By Victoria Cornwall - Published 2016

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Cornwall, England, in the 1700s is a dreary, impoverished, and tough place to live. When Jenna was a child, she had an experience ...Read Review

The Star in the Meadow

By Carla Kelly - Published 2017

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Western

Fernando Ygnacio and his daughter, Catalina, are auditors who make sure, for tax purposes, that the records of New Mexican ranchers match the ...Read Review

A Pinch of Poison: A Lady and A Lady’s Maid Mystery

By Alyssa Maxwell - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

The students of Haverleigh School for Young Ladies are being prepared to be wives who will raise fine families, support their esteemed husbands, ...Read Review

Show Me A Mountain

By Kerry Young - Published 2016

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Fay Wong is a naïve young woman living in Kingston, Jamaica, during the 1950s and 1960s, before and after the British gave ...Read Review

Escape from the Past: At Witches’ End

By Annette Oppenlander - Published 2016

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Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Imagine playing a virtual computer game in which once you clicked on “Master Level,” you would instantly be transported to the past. The ...Read Review

The Confectioner’s Tale

By Laura Madeleine - Published 2015Published 2016

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In 1988, Petra Stevenson has been working on her Ph.D. thesis at Cambridge on the period of history known as the Belle Époque. ...Read Review

The Tengu’s Game of Go: Book 4 in the Tale of Shikanoko Series

By Lian Hearn - Published 2016

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Historical Fantasy

“All the pieces were in their positions, and flames were charring the edges. It was time to act… The tengu had already told ...Read Review

Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors

By Conn Iggulden - Published 2016

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Adventure

The year 1470 is when the cycles of war and change between England’s Houses of York and Lancaster begin anew. Henry VI of ...Read Review