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The Dark Blood

by Claire Rudy Foster

Suffering from Game of Thrones withdrawals? The latest book in A. J. Smith’s twisted fantasy series, "The Dark Blood", has enough renegade clerics, murderous assassins, and unholy pacts and feuds to soothe even the most passionate... Read More

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In Calabria

by Claire Rudy Foster

Fans of The Last Unicorn will recognize Peter S. Beagle’s signature style immediately in his new novel, In Calabria. Touching gently on themes of faith, mythology, and poetry, In Calabria is a modern fairy tale that shows what happens... Read More

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The Dragon's Legacy

by Claire Rudy Foster

Deborah A. Wolf’s The Dragon’s Legacy is a powerful, compelling read that combines elements of epic fantasy with strong storytelling. Reminiscent of the classic fantasy novel Dune, The Dragon’s Legacy is an addictive start to a... Read More

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Accomplice to Memory

by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers

Trained in anthropology, psychology, and creative non-fiction, Q. M. Zhang brings all these disciplines to bear in "Accomplice to Memory", a radical investigation into the nature of truth and memory that’s equal parts biography and... Read More

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Jane Crow

by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers

Rosalind Rosenberg’s long-delayed biography, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray, uses the papers of Pauli Murray deposited at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library to give voice to Murray’s experience in a way Murray couldn’t in her... Read More

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Gertrude Weil

by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers

The world came to Gertrude Weil’s door, and Leonard Rogoff shows in Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South that she, in turn, bridged worlds. Born in 1879, a North Carolina Jew of German descent, Weil was educated at Smith... Read More

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The Turtle's Beating Heart

by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers

The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival opens with a tribal elder’s explanation: “Delawares are like clouds….They never get together.” Thus, Denise Low tackles one of the longest diasporas of any US... Read More

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Ernst Kantorowicz

by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers

Ernst Kantorowicz, son of a wealthy German Jewish liqueur manufacturing family, aesthete, intellectual, confirmed bachelor, active bisexual, and groundbreaking medievalist, is a contentious figure, even within Robert E. Lerner’s Ernst... Read More

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