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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…
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Ciao, Amore, Ciao: Based on a Heartbreaking True Story by Sandro Martini

Sprawling, stirring, and beautifully written… Martini delves into the intersection of history, familial ties, and the lingering scars of conflict in his compelling novel. The story follows Alex Lago, a jaded journalist watching his life unravel. A chance encounter with…
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Undefeated: A Novel by Gillie Basson

A knockout debut… In the squalid backstreets of 18th-century London, where blood mixes with mud and survival is a brutal, daily fight, an orphan earns her place in the world with her fists in Basson’s compelling debut. In London’s ruthless…
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Where Eagles Fly Free by David A. Jacinto

A sweeping historical drama of resilience, hardship, and the unbreakable bonds of family. Jacinto takes readers on a gripping historical odyssey filled with danger, heartache, and hope in his latest novel. Determined to carve out a place in its burgeoning…
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Nicked by M.T. Anderson

Based on actual history, Anderson’s engrossing tale follows a secluded monk and a relic hunter who are compelled to collaborate in a daring heist of St. Nicholas’ bones. In the year 1087, a devastating illness ravages the streets of Bari,…
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One-Eyed Jack: Book Three of The Scandalous Memoirs of General John Torrance by D.E. Ring

A taut, riveting exploration of espionage, identity, and the cost of imperialism.  Amid the chaos of war, the line between heroism and survival becomes dangerously thin for Jack Torreance in Ring’s third installment in The Scandalous Memoirs of General John…
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In the Company of Knaves: The Lost Years of William Shakespeare Book 3 by Anthony Wildman

Intriguing, immersive, and masterfully wrought… In the heart of Elizabethan London, a stolen play threatens to unravel Shakespeare’s career—and his life—in the third installment of Wildman’s The Lost Years of William Shakespeare series. It’s the winter of 1589. Shakespeare’s career…
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Day of Epiphany by Jerome Bourgault

A triumph… Set against Québec’s Grande Noirceur—the Great Darkness, Bourgault’s latest novel is a haunting exploration of institutional corruption and systemic abuse through the lens of the Duplessis Orphans scandal. Sister Cassandra Lalonde, reclassified from teacher to nurse, watches helplessly…