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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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Drop Dead Gorges

by Peggy Kurkowski

"Drop Dead Gorges" is a satirical thriller about secret identities, lies, retribution, and family dysfunction. A married mother, after using AI to escape her unhappiness, faces deadly consequences in Sue Rosenstock’s tongue-in-cheek... Read More

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V Immigratsii

by Peggy Kurkowski

In pandemic lockdown together, family members from four generations are prompted to share their stories in the revealing historical novel V Immigrastsii. Four generations of a Russian Jewish family share their memories of fleeing from... Read More

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The Hidden Front Line

by Peggy Kurkowski

A woman with deep family ties to the American war machine navigates changing political landscapes with aplomb in the historical novel "The Hidden Front Line". An American wife and mother witnesses the impacts of war on the men in her... Read More

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Eve

by Peggy Kurkowski

The fate of the first woman after her banishment from Eden is the focus of B. K. O’Connor’s transcendent novel "Eve". In the verdant, fertile glades of Eden, God creates Adam. When Adam aches for a companion to share in his paradise,... Read More

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An Enchanted World

by Peggy Kurkowski

In Michael L. Satlow’s rigorous religious study, the daily practices of Late Antiquity faiths, set in a world alive with the supernatural, reveal the shared experiences of human beings negotiating the divine realm. Focusing on Late... Read More

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