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The Hand Grenade Division by Michael A. Dorosh

Taut, gripping, and haunting; a searing tale of loyalty and survival. Dorosh delivers an immersive, morally complex portrait of an ordinary man caught inside an extraordinary historical catastrophe. In 1936, eighteen-year-old Henry Martens leaves Calgary for Germany, hoping to pursue…
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By Her Own Hand: War and passion in a woman’s wounded heart by Jack Deveny

A raw, riveting thriller with bite. Deveny’s compelling latest novel blends wartime trauma, romance, and suspense into an emotionally charged story of guilt and survival. After fleeing an abusive home for the Army, Madeline Crowne serves in Afghanistan, where a…
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RUNEBOUND (The Last Rune Of Rungardvik # 1) by Alessa M. Norwen

A spellbinding tale of faith, fate, and defiance… Norwen takes readers into twelfth-century Mecklenburg, where old gods linger beneath a changing world. Raised to believe that duty comes before desire, Milena faces a future already mapped out for her. With…
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Cutie Pies by the Slice: A 1930s Historical Novel of Strength and Belonging by Kimberly Nixon

A warmhearted, irresistible page-turner. Nixon’s historical novel delivers an engaging tale of resilience, ambition, and found family amid Prohibition and the Great Depression. After her mother’s death, 20-year-old Lila Young leaves Rockford, Ill., for Lima, Ohio, hoping to make a…
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Altamara’s Gift by John Gregg

A sprawling and deeply human Vietnam War novel… The jungles of Vietnam swallow young men whole, and only brotherhood offers any hope of survival in Gregg’s compelling novel. Sergeant Lefty Altamara, a gifted baseball player fleeing a violent childhood, finds…
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Her Runaway Lady by BJ Sikes

Lush, tender, and utterly irresistible… A talented milliner and a runaway aristocrat find love in an alternate Belle Époque Paris in Sikes’s historical romance. Solange wants success, not romance, and she’s worked too hard to depend on anyone else for…
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Maelstrom of Innocence (The Maelstrom Trilogy Book 1) by Alexandria Prescott

An evocative, intense, and unforgettable read… In Prescott’s poised, emotionally resonant series opener in the Maelstrom of Innocence series, a diplomat’s daughter’s sheltered life collapses overnight, forcing her into a world she had only ever observed from a distance. Tokyo,…
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Across a Starlit Sky by Susan Shalev

Atmospheric, poignant, and deeply humane… Shalev’s latest is a sweeping historical drama that carries readers from wartime Amsterdam to Inquisition-era Portugal, where love, faith, and survival are tested across centuries. As war engulfs Amsterdam, Mirjam, a gentile piano teacher, risks…
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Twenty Angels on Her Roof by Alex Charns

A blistering, audacious, darkly luminous tale of defiant faith, ferocious innocence, and celestial rebellion.  In Charns’s latest novella, a razor-sharp, unbreakable 12-year-old dares to marshal angels against the iron cruelty of the Third Reich. In 1942 Nazi-occupied Suwałki, 12-year-old Basia…
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Dear Missing Friend Susan McGuirk

Raw, authentic, and atmospheric; an unsparing look at the immigrant experience from a distinctly female perspective. McGuirk’s debut thrusts readers into the brutal realities of 19th-century America through the unrelenting struggles of an Irish immigrant. In 1841, Catherine McGuirk leaves…
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Will the Devil Help Me Now? By Caytlyn Brooke

Lean, vivid, and relentlessly absorbing… Set in 17th-century Scotland, Brooke’s stark, unsparing story traces how fear, grief, and institutional authority can transform care into a punishable offense. In Fife, 1649, sisters Isla and Elspeth Blackwood serve their community as herbal…
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Mask of Romulus by Mark Jamilkowski

A cinematic epic of empire, prophecy, and the human cost of power. In this ambitious historical novel, Jamilkowski draws Rome and India into dialogue through power, prophecy, and inner conflict. Rome was born from prophecy. Centuries later, Augustus faces war,…
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The Image Maker by Chris Flanders

Brisk, absorbing, and grounded in real lives, an industrial epic with a human heartbeat. Flanders’s ambitious and richly textured historical novel brings the birth of the American oil industry vividly to life through three intersecting lives. In the aftermath of…
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No Quarter: Empires in the Wilderness by David M. Howell

A cinematic historical drama that binds private struggle to global consequence. Howell’s ambitious and deeply immersive historical novel captures the rupture and uncertainty of the mid-eighteenth century with striking clarity. Caleb Rafferty and Daireann Dwyer flee to the colonies seeking…
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Beyond The Shetland Sea by Barbara Greig

A quiet, powerful story about courage, loss, and connection… A woman sorting through family relics uncovers a mystery that spans oceans and generations in Greig’s latest novel. The story moves between Sunderland in 2019 and Shetland in 1849, linking two…
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Finding Her Voice: From Broken to Bold Book 3: Acts of Early Female Apostles: A Novel by Elaine Ricker Kelly

An immersive and deeply affecting novel that bridges antiquity and the modern age.  Set between AD 39 and 48, this final volume in Kelly’s From Broken to Bold trilogy continues her exploration of faith, gender, and power within the early…
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Journal of the late Amelia Earhart by Frank Okolo

Technically precise, emotionally resonant, and compulsively readable. Okolo delivers a chillingly plausible reimagining of aviation’s most famous mystery in his compelling novel. The book’s premise is simple but provocative: what if Amelia did not vanish into the Pacific but survived…
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To Save a Life by Larry Zuckerman

Visceral, moving, and unforgettable. Zuckerman’s latest captures the grit and hope of Jewish immigrants fighting to carve out new lives in the cramped tenements and unforgiving streets of New York’s Lower East Side. Malka Kaminsky slips out of Grodno with…
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Till I Bleed No More by Alexander Ellis

Deeply human, quietly furious, and emotionally resonant. Ellis offers a restrained yet emotionally charged portrayal of piracy’s dying gasp in this compelling saga. 1728. The pirate age is over. Left for dead after a brutal defeat, Casper Nait, naval officer…
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The Manse of Chasconny by Gabbiano Gatto

Dark, cerebral, and unforgiving… Gatto’s latest novel is a haunting, richly imagined political gothic tale set in a Europe on the verge of collapse. Salbador, a repressed caretaker in an isolated coastal manse, grows increasingly unstable under the cruel authority…