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Love & Other Monsters

by Meg Nola

Emily Franklin’s transfixing historical novel gives voice to Claire Clairmont, lover of Lord Byron and stepsister of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. In 1816, Claire lives with her writer stepsister, Mary, and Mary’s fiancé, poet Percy... Read More

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Chasing Vincent

by Karen Rigby

A woman backpacking across Europe to reconnect with her family’s Jewish roots is put in danger because of a stolen painting in the suspenseful thriller "Chasing Vincent". A bereaved woman traces her family history in Douglas Scott... Read More

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The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer

by Meg Nola

An evocative historical novel, "The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer" vivifies the memories of a group of Catholic school alumni. Suffused with remembrances and yearnings, Richard Donze’s poignant and wry historical novel "The Secret Saint... Read More

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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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