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Christmas Stones and the Story Chair
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Christmas Stones pays homage to a simpler time and place. Author Justin Isherwood recounts his family’s tradition of offering Christmas “stones” or ...Read Review
The Red, White, and Blue Murder (Hilda Johansson Mysteries)
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Dams’ second Hilda Johansson murder mystery (following Death in Lacquer Red) opens in 1901 with the assassination of President McKinley. The suspected assassin is ...Read Review
Been Here and Gone: A Memoir of the Blues
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In what has to be one of the more audacious undertakings of the year, David Dalton relates the entire history of the blues, ...Read Review
Red Grass River: A Legend
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John Ashley’s gang was mostly a family affair, a notorious crew of moonshiners, bootleggers and natural-born outlaws, thriving in the Florida Everglades ...Read Review
A Simple Shaker Murder
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This is the fourth entry in the Sister Rose Callahan series, set in the Shaker Village of North Homage, Kentucky during the 1930s. ...Read Review
Heartsong of Charging Elk
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The considerable power and impact generated in this novel come partly from the actuality behind Welch’s fiction. In 1889 a young Oglala Sioux (...Read Review
Sign-Talker: The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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While the story of the exploration and settling of the American West by white Americans in the face of stubborn resistance by red ...Read Review
Chang and Eng
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In this enthralling first novel, Darin Strauss has combined meticulous historical research with imaginative storytelling to create a richly detailed, multi-layered account of ...Read Review
Death on a Silver Tray
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Beau Brummell is narrator in this frothy Regency mystery. I am a bit surprised that his dressing ritual and the time he spends ...Read Review
Gone for Soldiers
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Gone for Soldiers does not echo Peter, Paul and Mary’s pacifism in the song which provides the title. Rather, it portrays General ...Read Review