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Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
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This year marks the sesquicentennial of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, so of course someone will retell the story: but Tom Clavin ...Read Review
The Accidental Vikings
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Alfie and Kat are ten in today’s world when they are accidentally transported back to the Viking era after getting separated from ...Read Review
A Stranger in Corfu
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I do not know if the island of Vidos actually exists, but Preston is very exact in its location in the Corfu Straits, ...Read Review
What Came West
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This novel, complete with illustrations of flora and fauna, is an interesting contribution to the literature on the American West. In the 1840s ...Read Review
Footeprint
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Eunice Newton Foote had a genetic and familial predisposition for science, being a relative of Sir. Isaac Newton himself. But the cultural beliefs ...Read Review
The House of Hidden Letters
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With an intriguing start of a mystery, The House of Hidden Letters introduces us to Skye, who has just won a lottery for ...Read Review
The Prodigal of Leningrad
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This novel is set mostly during the Nazis’ horrific siege of Stalingrad with flashbacks to the earliest days of the Bolshevik revolution and ...Read Review
Whiz Kid
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It’s Philadelphia in 1950. Camden boy, baseball fan, and war hero Ben Green is finishing his writing degree at Penn alongside his friends, ...Read Review
Cromwell’s Reign: A Henry Darcy Story
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Henry Darcy is a soldier on the Royalist side during the War of the Three Kingdoms, starting in 1649. He is a witness at ...Read Review
Ultramarine
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In a coastal community in 14th-century England, three motherless brothers are just beginning to find their way in life, without much help from ...Read Review
