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Days of Hope, Miles of Misery: Love and Loss on the Oregon Trail by Fred Dickey

A meticulously researched and effortlessly crafted tale that transports the reader to another world from history… Filled with the struggles and hazards of traveling the rugged, hostile Oregon Trail, Dickey’s epic story of limitless hopes, searing losses, and courageous pioneers…
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Driftless (Waldwick #3) by Kenneth Linde

Excellently crafted, incredible detailed… Linde explores age-old questions about marriage, family, and individual rights in this engrossing third installment in the Waldwick series. Fifteen years into their marriage, and Amy is feeling the disquiet of a marriage gone stale. Being…
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The Elixirist: A Novel by Avraham Azrieli

Utterly compelling… A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike. The lands of ancient Israel supply the backdrop to Azrieli’s fascinating and deeply intriguing latest, which explores a young man’s path to self-discovery and enlightenment. Determined to win the…
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Of Love & Of Betrayal (The Seven Keys of Hildegard Book 2) by David Dupuis

An intriguing, suspenseful conspiracy thriller, written elegantly and with vivid details… Gripping, meticulously researched, and full of surprises, Dupuis’s second installment in The Seven Keys of Hildegard series reveals the anarchy that lurks in shadows as the ancient keys inevitably…
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Love’s Labour’s Won: The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

A brilliantly constructed and superbly executed historical tale… Gray skillfully makes use of the scant biographical resources, bringing a sensible eye to Shakespeare’s life story in his debut. As Gray tells it, William Shakespeare was his parent’s first child to…
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EO-N: A novel by Dave Mason

A tautly paced and multifaceted tale of humanity and the power of compassion… Mason’s moving WWII novel takes place in the past and the present, as a once-idealistic biotech CEO stumbles into a seventy-four-year-old mystery that connects her to her…
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A collection of Tom Durwood’s historical fiction (4-Books Series) by Tom Durwood

A high-octane adventure… Durwood serves up a deeply intriguing, ambitious historical fiction series that neatly combines the thrills and chills of action and adventure. In the first book, The Illustrated Boatman’s Daughter, Salima, the daughter of a wealthy boatman, living…
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Unspoken by T. A. Belshaw

An evocative, richly detailed tale… Belshaw’s poignant latest, a tale of family secrets, love, betrayal, and revenge, delivers atmosphere and plotting as well as nicely modulated characters. With her husband’s aptitude for relentless nagging and bullying, Jessica is trapped in…
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The Photograph by Kat Karpenko

A poignant historical drama… Karpenko’s latest boldly captures the sweeping devastating “terror-famine” of the times from the perspective of a family caught in a Bolshevik domination. Stalin’s rise to power in 1928 sets off a tidal wave of social turmoil…
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White Swan Wishes by Wes Snowden

A poignant examination of the intricacies of love… A tale of love, loss, and pain, Snowden’s latest is ripe with both emotional vulnerability and authenticity.  When 17-year-old Michael Grayson, the son of a New England scallop fishermen, met the lovely…
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Beneath the Palms by Ruth Newell

A sprawling and imaginative literary tale… An ambitious and haunting evocation of a time and place, Newell’s debut takes readers through Florida’s gradual development after the Civil War. The book starts with the early settlers’ struggles to survive and maintain…
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Lily Fairchild by Don Gutteridge

A large, stately, and intensely powerful tale of loss, grief, and resilience… Set against the backdrop of Canadian frontier, Gutteridge’s intimate, deeply evocative novel displays his formidable gift for illuminating humanity’s fascinating ability to strive in the face of difficult…
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Little Spirit (Waldwick) by Kenneth Linde

An enthralling tale of love, acceptance, and understanding… Set in contemporary Madison, Wisconsin, Linde’s second installment in the Waldwick series chronicles a young man’s coming-of-age journey as he navigates life’s ups and downs, learning about love, life, and liberty. Born…
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Summer in the City by Kevin Phelps

An impressive, memorable coming-of-age tale… Set in 1966 in Chicago’s North Shore in a diverse, inexpensive neighborhood, Phelps’s nuanced coming-of-age tale uses some real-life situation and characters to tell the story of a teenager boy trying to find his own…
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Waldwick: We hold these truths to be self evident that… by Kenneth Linde

A hard-hitting, poignant tale… Set in Cornwall, England and Virginia and southwestern Wisconsin in America from 1826 to 1871, Linde’s stunning latest weaves actual historical situations and people into a fictionalized narrative to tell the story of one man’s journey…
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It Gives You Strength by Philip Raymond Brown

A rip-roaring blend of space opera, history, and fantasy, this is entertainment at its best… In New York City of the prohibition era of 1920s, when the mobster Jack “Legs” Diamond is not the man to mess with, the heavyweight…
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Discovery by Barbara Greig

A riveting tale… Greig’s mesmerizing latest is an emotionally moving, intriguing novel about both a woman’s search for answers to long-buried family secrets and a poignant tale of love, loss, and courage. When the headstrong Gabriel decided to join Samuel…
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Just Another Girl on the Road by S. Kensington

A stellar debut… Set in 1944, Kensington’s debut historical drama will charm fans with its intimate warmth and intense romance. Stranded behind enemy lines in France, eighteen-year-old Katrinka Badeau escapes German deserters and joins the undercover Jedburgh operation under the…
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FOUR-FLUSHER (Elijah Pike Book 1) by Mike Shellenbergar

A captivating tale that brings to life the sounds, smells, and tastes of the old West… Unique in style and delivery, Shellenbergar’s first installment in the Elijah Pike series brilliantly reflects the color and adventure of the wild, wild West…
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A Feigned Madness by Tonya Mitchell

  Simply addictive… Set in 1890s, Mitchell’s meticulously-researched, gripping novel tells fictionalized account of the daredevil journalist Nellie Bly’s journey of breaking through the gender barriers as she sets on a path to unravel dark secrets of authorities at a…