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2007

The Belles Dames Club

By Melinda Hammond - Published 2007

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A unmarried Miss—the frivolous Clarissa Wyckenham—does a markedly good deed in helping the dour Lord Alresford out of a vexing predicament. ...Read Review

Barbary Coast

By Peter Smalley - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime Nautical

Avast m’hearties! All lovers of nautical tales in Hornblower fashion: here’s another series for you to enjoy. James Hayter is our ...Read Review

War Relic

By Mackie Murdock - Published 2007

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Western

In prose dry and sparse as his West Texas setting, Mackie Murdock brings us the story of Wilbur Malone, a Civil War veteran ...Read Review

Her Royal Spyness

By Rhys Bowen - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime

Bowen, author of the Molly Murphy mystery series, starts a new series with this book, featuring the engaging Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie. ...Read Review

The Incomplete Husband

By Ben Faccini - Published 2007

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Romance

This is a study of loss and exile. Elena marries against the wishes of her family, and she and Ricardo dream of a ...Read Review

Night of Flames

By Douglas Jacobson - Published 2007

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Military Romance

In the opening days of World War II, Jan Kopernik and his wife, Anna, are separated by the German invasion of Poland. After ...Read Review

Where Willows Grow

By Kim Vogel Sawyer - Published 2007

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Romance

Harley Phillips is a man grown bitter with increasingly devastating circumstances in drought- and Depression-stricken Kansas in the 1930s. All he wants to ...Read Review

1945

By Robert Conroy - Published 2007

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Alternate History Military

Robert Conroy turns history on its head by asking what would have happened if Japan had not surrendered after the atomic bombings of ...Read Review

Ghost Hunters

By Deborah Blum - Published 2007

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Nonfiction

The late 19th century was a time of remarkable scientific advancement. New discoveries by scientists, engineers and inventors were transforming the very basis ...Read Review

Reading Judas, The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of History

By Elaine Pagels - By Karen L. King - Published 2007

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Nonfiction

One of the big questions about the death of Jesus, of abiding fascination to theologians, historians and the just plain curious, is the ...Read Review