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Books : Historical Fiction

James Sturm’s America: God, Gold, and Golems.

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This beautifully illustrated graphic novel perfectly captures three snapshots in America’s history. Comprised of three chapters—“The Revival,” “Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight,” and “The Golem’s...

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Best Lenten Fiction Ever!

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In a predominantly Catholic town, who would be so bold as to open a chocolate shop during the fasting days of Lent?

King Arthur in the Wild West

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Though the Arthurian Legends are hundreds of years old, James C. Work has recreated the west based on these wonderful stories. In the Keystone Ranch Series, Art Pendragon owns the Keystone Ranch...

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Please Read… Stoner by John Williams

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Browsing through the sublime West Village bookstore, Three Lives & Company, last month, I came across Stoner, a recent addition to the superb New York Review of Books Classics Series. I made a...

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Take a trip to old time Scotland with Liz Curtis Higgs

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You know you have really gotten into a historical fiction novel when after reading it you are thinking in the dialect of the characters.  Such a thing happened to me recently after reading an...

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