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Watt O'Hugh Underground
Well-researched historical scenes of nineteenth-century San Francisco and New York bring a dime novel atmosphere to this humorous adventure. Watt O’Hugh Underground, the sequel to Steven S. Drachman’s 2011 debut, The Ghosts of Watt...
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Unearthed
Zombies, vampires, and werewolves, good-bye. Seymour’s original mythos sets this fast-moving fantasy apart. "Unearthed", Karen Seymour’s fast-moving fantasy debut, tells the story of a young woman discovering her own identity while...
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The North Building
Action, when it comes, is swift, unpredictable, and deadly, but in the big picture, information is the most dangerous weapon. Jefferson Flanders’s first “novel of the Cold War,” Herald Square, was praised by sources ranging from...
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Mistress of the Solstice
"Mistress of the Solstice" is a superior fantasy novel with a strong flavor of romance and myth. The protagonists are both archetypically mythic and achingly human. Anna Kashina cooks up a captivating blend of ancient myth and modern...
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Kassel
Detailed analysis vindicates World War II heroes who may have been unjustly blamed for disaster. In 1944, a few dozen United States bombers were shot down over Germany in one of the worst disasters ever suffered by the country’s aerial...
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The Way North
Selected poetry and short stories from native authors reflect on the heritage and landscape of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Michigan’s sparsely-populated Upper Peninsula is a place of forests, hills, and swamps. Its summers are almost...
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Insomnia
Supernatural young adult thriller creates a real sense of tension, anticipation, and dread. Parker Chipp hasn’t slept in four years. Every night, he’s an involuntary witness to the dreams of the last person whose eyes he looked into...
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A Peace without Honor
In the late 1990s, Adalbert Lallier, a professor of economics at Concordia University in Montreal, became a minor celebrity by acknowledging that he had served in the Nazi Waffen-SS during World War II and by testifying against his...