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Run Down the Wind

by John Senger

Meticulously researched, sweeping Civil War epic paints a picture of nineteenth-century America as anything but simple black and white. "Run Down the Wind", a romantic historical novel by Laurence Eubank, is a coming-of-age story that... Read More

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Abe Lincoln: Public Enemy No. 1

by Joe Taylor

Lincoln, emancipated at last from the nineteenth century, finds a job more honest than the presidency: “String Bean” is a thug with morals. In 1976, while they were students at Emerson College, Brian Anthony and Bill Walker made a... Read More

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Brassankle

by Melissa Wuske

A tale of two worlds, white and Native-American, is told with vivid language and an engaging plot. Set against the backdrop of the cultural and military turmoil of the Revolutionary War, this coming-of-age novel looks at the fighting in... Read More

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True Successor

by Wayne Cunningham

This fast-paced, tension-filled revisionist historical novel envisions an alternate Holy Roman Empire. Joseph H. Levie has rewritten the known aftermath of the downfall of Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire. In his thrilling debut novel... Read More

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Sunshine Follows the Rain

by Sara Budzik

This captivating story of postwar Britain features unique characters facing complicated changes in their lives and in society. An innocent but forbidden romance and a country recovering from the ravages of World War II have a lot in... Read More

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The Dissonant Spies

by Aimee Jodoin

A “good Nazi, bad Nazi” scenario evokes cognitive dissonance in a twist on the fast-paced action thriller. After washing up on the New Jersey shore on a German life raft, two Nazi spies, Rebekka Bader and Lukas Schott, begin their... Read More

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