HISTORICAL FICTION

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The Most Overlooked Books Of 2017
By Kirkus Reviews, Contributor
Kirkus Reviews
Originally published on Kirkus. For more from Kirkus, click here. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford "A first-rate entertainment
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Best Middle-Grade Mystery And Suspense Of 2017
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A Properly Unhaunted Place by William Alexander "A fun and fast-paced supernatural mystery with secret depths for those who
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13 Spooky YA Horror And Thriller Novels You Shouldn't Read At Night!
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When I Cast Your Shadow by Sarah Porter "A haunting tale of possession that explores the ghostly landscape of dreams and
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11 Excellent Books In The Brand New Kirkus Collections
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Shame the Stars by Guadalupe García McCall "Pura Belpré winner McCall delivers an ambitious, sardonically relevant historical
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9 Addictive YA Reads
By Kirkus Reviews, Contributor
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Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray “Intelligent and thoughtful, a highly relevant far-off speculative adventure. (Science-fiction
PARENTING
17 Years Without Television
By Teresa Messineo, Contributor
Writer, seeker, student of life, author of The Fire by Night.
Living TV free can also make television -- when we do watch it -- a real treat for our family. The Olympics, for example
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The First Christmas of the War: An Interview with Alan Simon
By Phil Simon, Contributor
Author, keynote speaker, professor
AS: The series follows this same family through the World War II years, into the Korean War, and eventually through the 1960s
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9 WWII Novels Beyond Europe's Shores
By Off the Shelf, Contributor
Read. Recommend. Repeat.
By Erin Flaaen | Off the Shelf The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan After a lifetime of keeping the terrible truth about her
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How Do You Write a Novel? Learn the Rules. Then Break Them.
By Holly Robinson, Contributor
Journalist, Novelist, and Ghostwriter
I'm about to publish my sixth novel, Folly Cove, this fall, and my means of feeling my way out of those slimy or prickly
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A Refreshing Discovery of Witchcraft and Forbidden Love
By Off the Shelf, Contributor
Read. Recommend. Repeat.
The epigraph of A Discovery of Witches -- "It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches." -- immediately warns you're about to encounter a book out of the ordinary.
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Book Review: 'Jacob's Folly'
By Thelma Adams, Contributor
Author of 'The Last Woman Standing: A Novel,' film critic and ...
View all my reviews Jacob's Folly by Rebecca Miller I turned to Rebecca Miller as a writer-director having interviewed her
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Michael Vance Gurley on Publishing His Historical Gay Hockey Novel
By David Henry Sterry, Contributor
Author, activist, performer, muckraker, book doctor
MG: I loved The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and wanted to be him, seemingly able to control minds. My dad's family is from Mississippi
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Their Thoughts, My Thoughts -- Launching a Legacy
By Barbara Stark-Nemon, Contributor
Author
ince Even in Darkness was published, and as I look back on that post, I find that bringing my book to a national audience has deepened and broadened my understanding of how my great aunt's life story has impacted others, by educating me in the ways readers have interpreted and evaluated my novel.
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Promised to the Crown: A Conversation with Aimie K. Runyan
By Brandi Megan Granett, Contributor
I am an author, archer, and writing mentor.
Imagine choosing a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in a new land at behest of your King and country in order to marry and mother in the New World.
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A Burning, Brilliant, and Brutal Novel
By Off the Shelf, Contributor
Read. Recommend. Repeat.
The three are soon swept up in a buzzy merging of minds that the reader can sense building to an imminent climax; King capitalizes
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The Danish Girl is a Dazzling Novel
By Lev Raphael, Contributor
Author, Reviewer, Blogger
But then I sampled the novel and was hooked. Lev Raphael is the author of 25 books including Rosedale in Love, a re-telling
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Castles, Kilts, and Combat... and a Love Story for Good Measure
By Off the Shelf, Contributor
Read. Recommend. Repeat.
Six hundred pages may seem daunting at first, but once I got into the story, I couldn't let go. It also didn't take very long to finish since I had to stay up late at night to find out what would happen.
TRAVEL
Traveling in the Footsteps of King Arthur and Guinevere
By Nicole Evelina, Contributor
Award-winning historical fiction/rom-com/non-fiction author wh...
In 2013, I was fortunate to take an Arthurian legend tour of southwest England (officially called From Avalon to Camelot
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Author Jennifer Brown Talks About How to Research a Novel, Conquering Rejection, and Writing Even When It Hurts
By Holly Robinson, Contributor
Journalist, Novelist, and Ghostwriter
I'm addicted to book review porn the way some people ogle real estate ads, vacation brochures, or the latest iPhone gadgets. When I first read the advance reviews of Jennifer Brown's debut novel, Modern Girls, I knew this was a must-read.
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'A Friend of Mr. Lincoln' by Stephen Harrigan
By Mary Pauline Lowry, Contributor
Author of the novel WILDFIRE
From its first pages, "A Friend of Mr. Lincoln" dives into the terrain of mortality and legacy, of friendship and the yearnings of youthful ambition that later become painful to reflect upon.
ARTS & CULTURE
Historical Fiction Gets No Respect -- Here's Why It Should
By Claire Fallon
Katy Simpson Smith, author of the new novel 'Free Men,' on the joys and frustrations of exploring the past.
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