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A Haunted Gettysburg Novel

Most Civil War novels about Gettysburg focus on the battle itself. Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life begins where many of them end: with the dead sprawled in the fields, the wounded packed into churches and barns, farms stripped bare, and civilians trying to piece together whatever can be salvaged after…
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September 10, 2026
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The Machinery of Survival in Malta’s Darkest Hours

By early 1942, Malta was in trouble. The small British-held island sat directly across Axis supply routes to North Africa, which made it strategically valuable and an obvious target. Bombing had intensified. Food, fuel and aircraft were in short supply. And every ship that managed to reach the island had…
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September 9, 2026
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Giving Voice to the Women History Left Behind

I spent a lot of my younger life fantasizing about living in Regency England or the nineteenth-century United States. As I got older, I understood either context would have been intensely uncomfortable — for anyone used to modern hygiene and for me as a Chinese American, in particular. I was…
Bo Wang
September 8, 2026
Nonfiction

Rediscovering Muriel Spark’s Brilliant and Enigmatic Life

James Bailey earned a doctorate in literature and has proven himself to be an insightful, exceptionally rigorous researcher while becoming the foremost expert on the brilliant, enigmatic iconoclast Dame Muriel Spark. He wrote Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form. Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The…
Linda Hitchcock
August 31, 2026
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A Southern Historical Novel Rooted in Memory

What the Trees Remember by Abigail Cutter is a powerful piece of historical fiction. The novel centers on Dora Minor, a ninety-three-year-old woman riding out the catastrophic 1969 flood caused by Hurricane Camille alone in her mountain home in Nelson County, Virginia, with only her two dogs for company. As…
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July 23, 2026
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A Tale of Survival and Belief in War-Torn Germany

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
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April 13, 2026
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A Lyrical Portrait of War and Survival in WWII Libya

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
Peggy Kurkowski
April 7, 2026