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Book cover of The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

Valerie Nieman Author Of In the Lonely Backwater

From Valerie's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Valerie's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Valerie Nieman Why Valerie loves this book

I'm continuing my research for the second of my Macbeth books, The Last Highland King, and this book really filled in the world of the Norse and Danes in the decades leading up to my period. Well-written and just full of the small details that add context to the recitation of events. Great use of the sagas!

By Tore Skeie , Alison McCullough (translator) ,

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3 authors picked The Wolf Age as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle draws all the lands of the north into a brutal struggle for supremacy and survival that will shatter kingdoms and forge an empire.

The Wolf Age takes the reader on a thrilling journey through the bloody shared history of England and Scandinavia, and on across early medieval Europe, from the wild Norwegian fjords to…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Mama Said

Valerie Nieman Author Of In the Lonely Backwater

From Valerie's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Writer Curiosity Traveler Nemophilist Perseverance

Valerie's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Valerie Nieman Why Valerie loves this book

These stories take us deep into the daily lives of a Black family in Louisville, KY, with all the joys and heartaches. Unflinching yet so compassionate.

By Kristen Gentry ,

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1 author picked Mama Said as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history steeped in tobacco, bourbon, and gambling, indulgences that can quickly become gripping and destructive vices. Set amid the tail end of the crack epidemic and the rise of the opioid crisis, Mama Said evokes Black family life in all its complexity, following JayLynn, along with her cousins Zaria and Angel, as they come of age struggling against their mothers' drug addictions.

JayLynn heads to college intent on gaining distance from her depressed mother, only to learn that her mother's illness has reached a…


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