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Names in a Jar

by Erika Harlitz Kern

Family, identity, and loyalty are at stake in Jennifer Gold’s historical novel "Names in a Jar", a coming-of-age story set during the Holocaust. Lina Krawitz wants to be a storyteller and writer, but when her mother dies while giving... Read More

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Children of Dust

by Aimee Jodoin

In Marlin Barton’s historical novel "Children of Dust", a family struggles with the repercussions of the death of their newborn. In the 1880s in Alabama, Rafe has multiple families. He’s married to Melinda, with whom he has five... Read More

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Man of the World

by Michelle Anne Schingler

The skies are seductive to a young man from the French countryside in Layne Maheu’s spellbinding historical novel "Man of the World". Auguste is the son of an apple farmer, for whom days replicate in calm form, in whom thrives a thirst... Read More

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Shiloh

by Jeremiah Rood

Lori Benton’s wrenching second novel in the Kindred series probes the wounds of the US’s racist past to prove that love and God conquer all. Seona is a former slave who lives in Boston with her son, Gabriel. Gabriel’s father, Ian,... Read More

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Murder Most Fair

by Wendy Hinman

Anna Lee Huber’s "Murder Most Fair" is a captivating story set in post-World War I Britain. Verity Kent was a Secret Service agent during WWI. Though sworn to secrecy by the Official Secrets Act, in Germany, Verity divulged her wartime... Read More

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The Mrs. Tabor

by Karen Rigby

"The Mrs. Tabor" is a rich historical saga in which a vulnerable but brazen woman becomes a legend of the West. Kimberly Burns’s historical novel "The Mrs. Tabor" focuses on the dramatic shifts in fortune experienced by the colorful... Read More

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