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Sarah Johnson
Collection management librarian, readers' advisor, avid historical fiction reader, NBCC member. Book review editor for the Historical Novels Review and Booklist reviewer. Recipient of ALA's Louis Shores Award for book reviewing (2012). Blogging since 2006.
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Sunday, September 06, 2026

The extraordinary story of Edmonia Lewis

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Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) was a neoclassical sculptor of Black-Indigenous parentage who gained international renown in the late 19th ce...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

From the mountains of Morocco to northeastern France

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There’s an almost mystical quality about the horse that draws together the passionate cast of characters within Elizabeth Letts’ newest nove...
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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Panic at the graveyard: Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh

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Tillinghast is an old New England surname. I know it well. At the previous institution where I worked, Bridgewater State College (now Univer...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Australian Gothic: Kelly Rimmer's The Story Keeper (The Midnight Estate)

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Fiona Winslow has years of experience in conservation architecture, and her newest project needs her help badly. In 2010, she’s just purchas...
Friday, August 07, 2026

Ghosts of the Old and New West in Téa Obreht's novel Sunrise

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Obreht’s electrifying novel opens in summer 2024, in the aftermath of a plane crash. Nina, a New York-based grad student and nanny, was on v...
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Sunday, August 02, 2026

Was Henry VIII her true father? Alison Weir tells Katherine Carey's story in The Boleyn Secret

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In her histories and fiction, Alison Weir has been particularly dedicated to Henry VIII, his six wives, and other royal family members, but ...
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Friday, July 24, 2026

The young women who disappeared: Kate Schatz's Where the Girls Were

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Feminist writer Schatz knocks it out of the park with her debut novel about a young woman in late ´60s California who—like so many from her ...
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