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Elly Robin: Bird in a Gilded Cage
by Karen Rigby
Focused on labor struggles and class differences, the alluring historical novel "Elly Robin: Bird in a Gilded Cage" positions its scrappy heroine for further adventures. In P. D. Quaver’s invigorating historical novel "Elly Robin: Bird...
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The Fair Folk
A lonely girl peeks beyond the veil, ensuring a childhood of wonder and silence, in Su Bristow’s enchanting novel "The Fair Folk". Felicity’s earliest memories are of peering up from her baby carriage at the fairy faces grinning down...
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The Postcard
Mysterious mail initiates a family’s search for their buried truths in Anne Berest’s elegiac novel "The Postcard", which vivifies and honors the dead. At her first Seder well into her adulthood, Berest is confronted by an aspiring...
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Kalyna the Soothsayer
In Elijah Kinch Spector’s brooding novel "Kalyna the Soothsayer", the end of the world is coming. Kalyna knows that her country is about to collapse into war and destruction, but she cannot flee. She is trapped in the service of the...
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An Unreliable Magic
A legendary sword, mysterious portals, and an old foe bring magic and mischief to Avalon in Rin Chupeco’s young adult novel, "An Unreliable Magic". Picking up where the previous volume left off, the novel recounts important details in...
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Breaking the Maafa Chain
Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Anni Domingo’s epic historical novel honors the unbreakable bond between two sisters who are captured by slavers in a vicious raid on their African village, sold, and sent to two...
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A Conspiratorial Life
The origins of the conspiracy theories that permeate modern American politics are revealed in Edward H. Miller’s biography of Robert Welch, "A Conspiratorial Life". Born into a family of North Carolina farmers who fought in the...