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Never Sleep
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Never Sleep is a solid historical fiction offering by well-known graphic novelist and fiction writer Van Lente. Opening in 1861, it follows Kate Warn, ...Read Review
The Odyssey of Effie Frost
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This coming-of-age tale tells of 18-and 16-year-old sisters, Effie and Phoebe Frost, and their cousin Beatrice, who embark on an arduous journey from ...Read Review
Puppet Flower
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In 1867, fourteen American shipwreck survivors reached the shores of southern Taiwan only to be slaughtered by indigenous people. The tale of the U....Read Review
Yours Truly, The Duke (Say I Do, 1)
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The Duke of Wyatthaven urgently needs a bride if he is to avoid losing a sizeable inheritance from his grandmother. Fredericka Hale needs ...Read Review
The Dark that Doesn’t Sleep
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The Dark That Doesn’t Sleep is a taut, psychological military and spy thriller set in 1967. Jack Miller, a psychoanalyst with a New ...Read Review
Coyote Weather
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It’s 1967, and young people in the quiet fictional town of Ayala, modeled after Ojai, California, must cope with a harsh new world. ...Read Review
Leeward (Nightingale & Courtney, 1)
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At the decisive moment in the ferocious Battle of Aboukir Bay in 1798, Captain Hiram Nightingale is on the burning deck of his ship. ...Read Review
Nothing Left to Fear from Hell: Darkland Tales
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Warner is known for his literary and comic novels, all in modern settings. His contribution to Polygon’s Darkland Tales series is a ...Read Review
The Unassuming Curator
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1790. This Georgian romance pairs Henry Buckland, a naturalist at the British Museum, with Emily Norton, sister of Lord Dunsbourne, who would rather commune ...Read Review
German Fantasia
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This slim volume consists of a series of connected short stories with the underlying theme of the experiences of Germans during and after ...Read Review






