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Lord Chief Justice Mansfield

by Michele Sharpe

"Lord Chief Justice Mansfield" is a spirited biography that details one man’s tremendous rhetorical influence over important events of the eighteenth century. Historian Ernest B. Lowrie’s comprehensive biography "Lord Chief Justice... Read More

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Moscow Gold

by Jeremiah Rood

"Moscow Gold" is a complex historical thriller in which an American journalist faces a cabal of spies. Set during the Spanish Civil War, Douglas Field’s epic historical thriller "Moscow Gold" follows a search for missing treasure. In... Read More

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All the Lost Places

by Karen Rigby

In Amanda Dykes’s mesmerizing historical novel "All the Lost Places", a California man travels to Venice, where he confronts the mysteries around a fabled book. In 1807, Sebastien was set afloat in a canal. He was discovered by an... Read More

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The Ribbon Leaf

by Karen Rigby

In Lori Weber’s enthralling historical novel "The Ribbon Leaf", a girls’ friendship changes after Kristallnacht, though their memories still sustain them across an ocean and a decade. In 1938 in Germany, twelve-year-old Sabine is... Read More

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The Best Intentions

by Vivian Turnbull

In unforgiving nineteenth-century London society, people find strength through their shared struggles in Sarah M. Eden’s novel "The Best Intentions". In London society, even the smallest secret can cast you out and subject you to... Read More

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Aquarian Dawn

by Karen Rigby

An African teenager comes of age between countries and cultures in Ebele Chizea’s engrossing young adult novel "Aquarian Dawn". In the 1960s, Ada moves to Pennsylvania from Nabuka, a country riven by civil war and genocide. Her mother,... Read More

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The Green Lady

by Catherine Thureson

Sue Lawrence’s "The Green Lady" is a historical novel about the women surrounding a lesser-known Scottish historical figure. Near the end of the sixteenth century, Alexander Seton—the godson of Mary, Queen of Scots—became the first... Read More

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