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Black Creek: The Taking of Florida
Many novels have been written about the resettling of the Native American population onto reservations. Paul Varnes tells the story,…
People of the Book
Editors' choice
This wonderful gem has convinced me to put Geraldine Brooks’s other novels on my to-be-read list. Set both in the…
The Book Thief
This is a tale narrated by Death, or the Grim Reaper. He (or she or indeed it) tells the story…
Secret Sins
In war-torn 1940s Bristol, England, Mary Anne’s pawnshop home is burnt down while her son and daughter are in the…
Out Of Shadows
This is the second novel in the Meryen series following Keeping Echoes. Intrigue, lust and passion run through this story…
Long Shadows
Alice Chase, once a Londoner and now, in 1939, the wife of Walter, a saw mill worker in Somerset, contends…
Bargain Bride
Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching at the local school, but she is not so sure about her love for…
Sweethearts
Cordelia and Lexa are heartbroken when they lose the family greengrocery, but soon find work and love in very different…
The Coal Gatherer
Callie is one of many children born to Mary and Ebeneezer Ingram, fisher-folk who scratch a precarious and impoverished living…
Storm Over Burracombe
This well-crafted, heart warming, page-turning story is a light rustic romance, set in the Devon of 1952. Interwoven sub-plots of…
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