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Where They Bury You

by Joe Taylor

Heroes fall in a fictionalized account of how the West was swindled. With "Where They Bury You", Steven W. Kohlhagen inserts a “what-could-have-been” amendment to the official American story of the Southwest in the 1860s.... Read More

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But by the Chance of War

by Joe Taylor

Heroic couplet-form dialogue brings an epic feel to this survey of war and human nature’s destiny. No one is more aware of the paradoxes inherent in war than its principals. In this epic survey, Richard Lyons takes to battlefields and... Read More

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A Woman Possessed

by Cheryl Hibbard

Retired high school English teacher Marilyn Hering devoted several years to researching and writing her first novel, "A Woman Possessed". Inspired by her father’s long career in the silk mills of Paterson, New Jersey, she has set her... Read More

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Cuauhtemoc

by Karl Helicher

In Cuauhtémoc: Descending Eagle, the story of a sixteenth-century Mayan child who grows to become a great leader by the time he is twelve, D.L. Davies’s vivid character descriptions are undermined by an unrealistic portrayal of an... Read More

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There's the Rub

by Catherine Thureson

Historical novel blends fact and fiction during a time of great hope and pervasive racism in the entertainment industry. There’s the Rub is a sad yet hopeful story of one African-American family living at the turn of the twentieth... Read More

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Is It Me?

by Sheila M. Trask

George Waldorf meets the girl of his dreams. Literally. When the woman haunts his nights materializes in broad daylight, George is compelled to uncover the truth behind his vivid dreamscapes. This premise makes Rathan Kumar’s book *Is... Read More

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Midwestern Journal

by Sheila M. Trask

Set in the fictional small town of Rivermet, Indiana, Howard Doughty’s entertaining stories tell the tales of Edward Ellis, humble modern citizen, and his great-grandmother, Harriet Hanes, a 1940s farm wife. Edward’s present-day... Read More

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