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The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer

by Meg Nola

An evocative historical novel, "The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer" vivifies the memories of a group of Catholic school alumni. Suffused with remembrances and yearnings, Richard Donze’s poignant and wry historical novel "The Secret Saint... Read More

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Then Came the Summer Snow

by Peggy Kurkowski

"Then Came the Summer Snow" is an encouraging historical novel about a determined mother who takes on a weapons company for its cancer-causing contaminants, which plague her uninformed community. A 1950s homemaker leads the fight to... Read More

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Mud Men

by Peggy Kurkowski

A soldier navigates racism in the US military in the revealing historical novel "Mud Men". During World War II, an immigrant soldier in the US Army gets a lesson in leadership and racism in J. A. Nunn’s historical novel "Mud Men". In... Read More

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The Cleansing

by Michelle Anne Schingler

A Vestal virgin defends her honor to save her life in Victoria Alvear’s "The Cleansing", a riveting novel set in an ancient Rome. At a time when the “truth no longer matters” and misogyny, violence, and superstition reign,... Read More

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The House of Barbary

by Michelle Anne Schingler

A sheltered, orphaned heiress begins to question the secrets in her estate’s basement in Isabelle Schuler’s riveting mystery novel "The House of Barbary". Bern’s citizens marked Beatrice as strange in her childhood. Cut out of her... Read More

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