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Babylon Hill by L.G. Roy

Dense, compelling, original… A crime drama, a romance, and a poignant coming-of-age story. Set against the Fenian invasion of Canada and the aftermath of American Civil War, Roy’s remarkable novel offers an extraordinary blend of historical drama, western fiction, and…
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BALTIC SHADOWS by Matejs Kalns

A spellbinding tale of murder and dark intrigue… A remarkable blend of harmony and discord, Kalns’s latest novel is packed with revelations about the fervent nationalism, the unrelenting pull of danger, and human drama. Autumn, 1986. In the wake of…
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Denali: The Alaskan Adventures of Percy Hope by Neil Perry Gordon

A thrilling, pulse-pounding adventure… Gordon’s riveting third in The Alaskan Adventures of Percy Hope takes the courageous hero on an exhilarating adventure into the unforgettable terrains of North America’s tallest mountain peak. Determined to find his six-month-old son, Walter, and…
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Bitter for Sweet by Daryl Potter

A haunting novel that deserves to be savored and pondered… With skill and efficiency, Potter evokes the Middle East settings, characters, and culture in his latest historical tale. 76 BCE. Life for Pninah, a poor Jewish girl, is almost content…
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The Oni’s Shamisen Book 9: The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow Boy by Claire Youmans

An immersive, satisfying read… Youmans’s ninth installment in her ambitious The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow Boy series is a carefully plotted, engrossing historical fantasy with plenty of twists and turns. Japan, 1877. The Satsuma Rebellion is contained, and the rebels…
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The Sacred Band: Union by James MacTavish

Deeply absorbing and extravagantly imagined… Love, divided loyalties, and historical intrigue mark MacTavish’s fantastic latest in The Sacred Band Saga. A new empire is dawning in the United States of America. But the descendants of the Sacred Band of Thebes…
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The Uniform by G. Gruen

A crackling historical thriller that’s one to savor… Gruen brings to life the WWII era to life in this taut, atmospheric tale of a Jewish labor camp prisoner’s attempt to escape from captivity. Life is hard, but it is his…
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Them Days by Glenn P Booth

An exuberant, meticulously researched tale… Booth brings the early 1900s to life in this riveting story of family, love, determination, resilience, and survival. Born as the third consecutive girl in a poor Ukrainian homestead near Gimli is hard enough for…
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Tides of the Sovereign (The Lost Wells Trilogy Book 1) by Kate Gateley

A deeply poignant story, beautifully and compellingly told… Gateley’s debut installment in The Lost Wells Trilogy is a compelling, leisurely moving tale that grounds paranormal elements in a fascinating love story. Thirty-year-old magic Bearer Julia Harrison has always found herself…
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The Secret Life of Mary White: Darkness Into Light by Lenaye Marsten

A poignant exploration of the intricacies of personal growth, courage, and survival… Inspired by a true story from the 17th century Piscataqua region of New England, Marsten’s affecting debut follows a woman’s attempt to find refuge from her tragic reality.…
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A Shadow Melody by Brian Kaufman

Disquieting, visceral, and compulsively readable. The expert handling of narrative complexity and authentic period detail makes Kaufman’s latest a solid historical tale of supernatural suspense. When the brilliant Harry Browning began to work on a device to communicate with the…
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Streets of Tears by Larry J Hilton

Deftly penned and meticulously researched… An immersive historical tale. Hilton demonstrates his expert researching skills, shedding light on the Austrian mindset during the World War I while exploring the rise of the Nazi party and impending dictatorship under Hitler, and…
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A Time to Forget in East Berlin by CG FEWSTON

Vivid, nuanced, and poetic… Set in the 1970s in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Fewston’s second installment in the three part series explores the grave moral complexities of life through the tense encounters of John Lockwood, a former CIA…
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On the Precipice of the Labyrinth by Brian Snowden

Simply engrossing, filled with individual drama and historical intrigue… A young man from America crosses the Atlantic Ocean to Spain and months of personal upheavals in Snowden’s engrossing debut. 1930s. Charlottesville graduate William Benning, son of a Virginia professor who…
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The Witness Tree by Jena M Steinmetz

Vividly evocative and steeped in American history… A stunner. An archival preservationist finds her own life transforming after she begins to unravel the mystery surrounding an historical finding in Steinmetz’s affecting latest historical tale. When Breanne Walker, a newly appointed…
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A Breach In Time (Coeur de Lion #1) by Pamela Todd-Hunter

Intense, sexy, and so damn entertaining… An intriguing and lesser-known chapter of French/English history comes to life in Todd-Hunter’s immersive, sexy historical time-travel tale, the first installment in the Coeur de Lion series. Aspiring historical scholar Alixandra Evans finds her…
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Skyehag (The Torrport Diaries Book 2) by Bettyanne Twigg (Author), Albert Marsolais (Author)

An intricate, entertaining tale, both immediate and arrestingly absorbing. Elspeth MacLeod’s quest to save her clan from sinister enemies while fighting false charges of witchcraft propels the action in Marsolais and Twigg’s second installment in The Torrport Diaries series. It…
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Dark Blue Waves by Kimberly Sullivan

A transporting drama of love, desire, and hope… High adventure fraught with unexpected twists marks Sullivan’s engrossing time-travel tale, which takes her heroine two-hundred years back to Regency England. Janet Roberts’s dream of an academic career in literature seems to…
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Legends on the Rise Series by Leigh Rose

Riveting… Page-turning… Filled with historical events, myths, and legends that haunt two families’ redemption, Rose’s Legends on the Rise series is a poignant, revealing period fiction about race and slavery in the colonial slave trade era. The first book begins…
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When Starlings Fly as One by Nancy Blanton

A solid historical drama high on emotion, setting, and character… The nightmare of the 1641 Rebellion and Ireland’s longest siege comes to the page in this engrossing novel from Blanton, a provocative exploration of one young woman’s quest to find…