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Sing Her Name
by Karen Rigby
Musical talent blooms in Rosalyn Story’s stirring, character-driven novel "Sing Her Name", a powerful story about Black artistry, women’s dreams, and overcoming strife. After they are displaced to New York by Hurricane Katrina, Eden...
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Let Us Vote!
In 1971, the ratification of the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. Jennifer Frost’s thorough, valuable "Let Us Vote!" celebrates the amendment’s semicentennial by chronicling the long struggle to pass...
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Murder Most Fair
by Wendy Hinman
Anna Lee Huber’s "Murder Most Fair" is a captivating story set in post-World War I Britain. Verity Kent was a Secret Service agent during WWI. Though sworn to secrecy by the Official Secrets Act, in Germany, Verity divulged her wartime...
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The Mrs. Tabor
by Karen Rigby
"The Mrs. Tabor" is a rich historical saga in which a vulnerable but brazen woman becomes a legend of the West. Kimberly Burns’s historical novel "The Mrs. Tabor" focuses on the dramatic shifts in fortune experienced by the colorful...
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Now You Say Yes
Bill Harley’s novel "Now You Say Yes" emphasizes the importance of kindness, bravery, and family. Fifteen-year-old Mari is used to her world falling apart, but she never imagined that she’d lose her adopted mother, Stef, too. Now,...
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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
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Tokyo Junkie
by Meg Nola
Robert Whiting’s memoir "Tokyo Junkie" details his long-standing relationship with Japan’s populous, quirky capital. Whiting first arrived in Japan as a US Air Force soldier; he watched Tokyo emerge from its post-war malaise to...