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The Forty-Niners by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone is about the California Gold Rush. The Bennett family have a family farm in the Ozarks but after two years of extreme drought are fixing to lose it at any time. Upon hearing of the gold rush and the chance of becoming rich, the father…
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The Heel of Gods by Thien Nhan is the first book in the series, The Secret Atlantis. Alex is a young man native to the city of Athens and has always been drawn to the history and mythology of the Mediterranean world. As a teenager he saw an unusual phenomenon, a huge vortex, deep in…
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We return to Victorian England with The September Society, book two of the Charles Lenox mysteries by Charles Finch. It picks up about a year after the end of the first book when Lenox is approached by Lady Annabelle, an acquaintance of his. Lady Annabelle is a widow whose husband passed away years ago when…
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The Son of Neptune is book two of The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan and it circles back to Percy Jackson. In the previous book we had learned that Percy had mysteriously disappeared and no one knew what had happened. This book opens by revealing that Percy had also lost his memory and was…
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A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan is a rather intriguing historical fantasy novel. Lydia Polk is a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Witches and the apprentice of the Grand Mistress, Isadora, of the academy. When WWII breaks out Isadora places the might of the academy behind the Allied forces and works with…
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A Nightmare of Magic and Madness is the first book in the Chaos of Magic series by Matthew Spizuco. Logan Grenbrook is a mage of the Gen’Dom order and is frequently sent out on various errands for other mages, that is whenever he is not working on his own studies. His mentor Jonathan has requested…
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We return to Temperance Brennan with book five, Grave Secrets, by Kathy Reichs. This time around we see Temperance Brennan in Guatemala as she works on finding and identifying the remains of people killed during the civil war a few decades prior. After an attack that led to several colleagues being heavily injured and in…
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We return to a world of magic with Physik, the third book in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage. Picking up a few months after Flyte, Septimus is working to learn more about Physik and medicine while Jenna is slowly becoming used to being the princess. Silas has become rather obsessed with a game…
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The Volunteer- Not For Glory by Jason Morwick and Robert Nelson is about a young man named Hans Sterling. He was only a child when Germany fell at the end of WWII and his family was killed by fleeing Nazis for celebrating the end prematurely. Almost a decade later he is still haunted by that…
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The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron introduces the young game warden Mike Bowditch in the first Mike Bowditch mystery. Mike is still adjusting to being a rookie game warden and doing his best to learn the tricks of the trade when he receives a middle of the night call about a bear attacking a local…
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