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The Music of What Happens

by Sterling Hooker

With its precise sense of place and myriad examples of everyday injustice, "The Music of What Happens" is a compelling historical novel. Charles Fanning’s steady historical novel "The Music of What Happens" is about Irish immigrants... Read More

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Pathway to Glory

by Ben Linder

Greed undermines an ambitious man’s happy life in the the thrilling novel "Pathway to Glory". Set in 1960s New York, Edmund Schiavoni’s novel "Pathway to Glory" is a redemption story about money, family, and pride set against a... Read More

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Fair Youth

by Meg Nola

In the spirited historical novel "Fair Youth", the oft-debated “Oxfordian” theory of Shakespeare’s authenticity is explored with humor, verve, compassion, and irony. Lawrence Wells’s historical novel "Fair Youth" enlivens the... Read More

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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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