HISTORICAL FICTION
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IF LOOKS COULD KILL – Julie Berry
It is 1888 and the world is on edge with reports of the brutal murders in the Whitechapel area of London and the still-at-large killer who’s given the name Jack the Ripper. And for the man known as ‘Jack’ it isn’t safe to spend too much time in London. He’s already been pulled in for Continue reading
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SILVER ECHOES – Rebecca Rosenberg
Rebecca Rosenberg’s Silver Echoes is compelling historical fiction based on real people and events set in the early 20th century. We mostly follow Silver Dollar Tabor – the daughter of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor who made their fortune during the silver mine boom in Colorado and were among the country’s elite. Silver hopes to use her Continue reading
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WILD AS THE STARS – Kerry Chaput
It is the late 1920’s in an alternate universe where magic is banned alongside booze during Prohibition. Eleanora ‘Nora’ Cleary has dreams of performing her magical tap dance on the stage but Prohibition has meant that she has to keep her magic ability a secret. Fear of those with magic powers has pervaded the general Continue reading
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LETTERS TO KAFKA – Christine Estima
This was beautiful. Milena Jesenská was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. It was in the latter role that she rose to some small fame as she was one of the first to translate the works of Franz Kafka from German to Czech. She’d discovered one of his stories which made an impact on her Continue reading
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THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER – Stephen Graham Jones
What happens when a vampire confronts a minister in the American West of 1912? Confession. Discovered in a wall is a journal of a Lutheran pastor who detailed his encounters with a man who’d once been known as Good Stab, of the Blackfeet Nation. In great detail, the pastor recounts Good Stab’s story in his Continue reading
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O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC – A.G. Russo
When the older O’Shaughnessy brothers went off to war, they left their sister, Maeve, in charge of their private detective business. When the brothers saw a poor Italian kid getting picked on in boot camp and was likely not going to make it home alive without a little help, they reached out to the kid’s Continue reading
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PINK CHIMNEYS – Ardeana Hamlin
1800’s, Bangor, Maine. Three women struggle to survive and thrive in a male-dominated world. Maude Richmond is bright young girl who wants to become a doctor like her father, but, because she’s female, it won’t be possible. So she does the next best thing – she becomes a midwife and by choice she elects to Continue reading
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BILLY THE KID: THE WAR FOR LINCOLN COUNTY – Ryan C. Coleman
I have to admit that I chose and started to read this book because I thought it was going to be a non-fiction book about Billy the Kid – an infamous outlaw about whom I know very little. I also know there’s been a trend of non-fiction books that push the boundaries of non-fiction, giving Continue reading
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THE ROOF WALKERS – Keith Henderson
It is 1864 and the Civil War in the United States is waning. Irish-Canadian Eoin O’Donoghue is hired as the personal secretary to William R. Roberts in New York. Roberts is the de facto head of the Irish Republican Army in New York. O’Donoghue is appalled at what he sees and the seemingly carelessness of Continue reading
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SHRINES OF GAIETY – Kate Atkinson
It is 1926 and London is still reeling from the Great War, but it is the age of jazz, booze, and gaiety as the people find ways to enjoy life after so much death. SoHo is where the liveliest action happens and it’s there that Nellie Coker, ambitious and cut-throat nightclub owner takes charge. She Continue reading
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PLAYING IT SAFE – Ashley Weaver
Electra “Ellie” McDonnell was once a safe-cracking thief. Now, while London is constantly on edge with Germany’s WWII Blitz, Ellie agrees to use her skills to help her country. She’s given an assignment by British Intelligence and, under an assumed name, travels to the port city of Sunderland to wait for further orders. Before she Continue reading
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THE RIVER WE REMEMBER – William Kent Krueger
In the southwest corner of the state of Minnesota is the small town of Jewel. It is 1958 and the War is still fresh in people’s minds and Memorial Day has significant meaning to most. But this particular Memorial Day, while many are celebrating the day, the body of Jimmy Quinn (a wealthy, local landowner) Continue reading
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