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BEYOND THE PALE
Emily Urquhart
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS
Lisa Wingate
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Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - Review
Book Synopsis: Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and...
Lyra Thompson
Feb 20, 20232 min read
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva - Review
Book Synopsis: Charles Dickens should be looking forward to Christmas. But when his latest book, 'Martin Chuzzlewit', is a flop, his...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 16, 20223 min read
Send For Me by Lauren Fox - Review
Book Synopsis: Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany,...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 12, 20224 min read
(SPOILERS) Everything That Burns (Liberté) by Gita Trelease - Review
Book Synopsis: Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. But as the people of Paris starve and...
Lyra Thompson
Nov 1, 20214 min read
My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray - Review
Book Synopsis: A general’s daughter… Coming of age on the perilous frontier of revolutionary New York, Elizabeth Schuyler champions the...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 5, 20213 min read
Hamilton and Peggy: A Revolutionary Friendship by L. M. Elliot - Review
Book Synopsis: Peggy Schuyler has always felt like she’s existed in the shadows of her beloved sisters: the fiery, intelligent Angelica...
Lyra Thompson
Nov 6, 20203 min read
Enchantee by Gita Trelease - Review
Book Synopsis: Paris in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries—and magicians... When...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 25, 20202 min read
(SPOILERS) Allies by Alan Gratz - Review
Book Synopsis: June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. The only way to stop them? The...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 22, 20202 min read
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