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Full Beaver Moon

by Karen Rigby

A hero with a troubled past journeys into the deep South in search of understanding in the rich historical novel "Full Beaver Moon". In Peter Skinner’s spellbinding literary novel "Full Beaver Moon", a biracial teenager plans his... Read More

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The Young Samaritan

by John M. Murray

A faithless boy encounters Jesus and opens himself up to new ways of being with others in the heartwarming religious novel "The Young Samaritan". In J. Schuyler Sprowles’s historical novel "The Young Samaritan", a boy who’s forced to... Read More

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The Lamplighter

by Karen Rigby

A girl in a whaling village investigates several disappearances in Crystal J. Bell’s mesmerizing historical novel "The Lamplighter". Even as self-reliant eighteen-year-old Temperance mourns her father, who was hanged, she takes up his... Read More

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Frederick Douglass

by Eileen Gonzalez

Sidney Morrison’s biographical novel "Frederick Douglass" follows the famed abolitionist from slavery to international stardom. Frederick Douglass dreams of escaping enslavement for years. But after completing the long and dangerous... Read More

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Breaking Ground

by Natalie Marino

A bright woman comes of age amid the turmoil of the 1960s in the aspirational novel "Breaking Ground". In Marie Corbett’s historical novel "Breaking Ground", a woman discovers truths about herself and the changing 1960s world of free... Read More

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