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Shame the Devil

by Julia Ann Charpentier

"Shame the Devil" presents Sara Payson Willis, who lived from 1811 to 1872 and was a writer known among the contemporary literati as Fanny Fern. Due to her esteemed company, the book reads like a compilation of biographical incidents... Read More

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The Price of Glory

by Mary Popham

"The Price of Glory", set in 1795 post-Revolutionary France, is the author’s third in a nautical series featuring fictional British seaman Captain Nathan Peake. With vivid tales of ships and the sea, wind and weather, war and... Read More

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The Luminist

by Diane Gardner

"The Luminist", by David Rocklin, explores the struggle to find one’s place in the world when confined by society to an ill-fitting role in which one’s dreams and abilities outshine what is acceptable—and what it means to break... Read More

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Naked Heart

by Mary Popham

Loyalty, love, and what constitutes duty to country and family are the great themes of Naked Heart. Going into the minds of all the characters and using the frame of a twenty-first century failed businessman who inherits a historical... Read More

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Jaga Na Kala

by Jill Allen

In common parlance, when “the wolf is at the door,” one can expect death and destruction. But when a wolf comes to the cabin of an orphaned sixteen-year-old in the Canadian wilderness, the predator gives Ruth, our heroic protagonist,... Read More

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With A Heavy Heart

by Dawn Goldsmith

Austrian engineer and German spy, J.L. Stein, leads readers through the dark labyrinth of his family’s history, including tales of concentration camps, Nazis, and the KKK. In this ambitious novel, Sam Taggart balances the evil with... Read More

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The Emancipation of Giles Corey

by Kai White

The Emancipation of Giles Corey: the title alone evokes themes of slavery and freedom. More specifically, it conjures a ghost from that dark chapter of Puritan history in which witches swayed from the gallows. The book was included in... Read More

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