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Iceland at the turn of the first millennium: Astonishing place, astonishing time by Katie Aiken Ritter

Icelandic sagas bring to life an astonishing array of human nature: stories of individual families and lovers, of loyalty, jealousy, betrayal, forgiveness, greed, lust, faithfulness, competition, pursuit, hatred, fear, feuds, admiration, courage and determination. For hundreds of years, valued storytellers repeated these sagas to brighten the long winters of their… Read More »Iceland at the turn of the first millennium: Astonishing place, astonishing time by Katie Aiken Ritter

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A Whole New World by Donis Casey

For the past dozen years, I’ve been writing a historical series set in Oklahoma that features Alafair Tucker, a 40ish farm wife with ten children. The first book, The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, took place in 1912, and the most recent, Forty Dead Men, took place in 1919 and dealt with… Read More »A Whole New World by Donis Casey

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During WWII: Working With Those Who Look Like The Enemy by M. Ruth Myers

“I’m American, born to American parents,” a young girl announces in the opening scene of Ration of Lies, the eighth and most recent book in my Maggie Sullivan mystery series. Daisy Hashimoto is the fictional face of a little-known historical fact: Between 1943 and 1946, when most of America’s Japanese-American… Read More »During WWII: Working With Those Who Look Like The Enemy by M. Ruth Myers

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