2011
Bracelet of Bones
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Kevin Crossley-Holland inverts the Viking stereotypes with this sparkling and poetic story. His Vikings lust for trade, not war. Their bravery is demonstrated ...Read Review
Lady in the Mist
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As tensions mount between England and the United States in 1809, a coastal Virginia town midwife, Tabitha Eckles, not only becomes embroiled in the ...Read Review
A Royal Likeness
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Marguerite Ashby, daughter of a Frenchwoman, runs a doll shop in 1803 London. Married to her childhood sweetheart, she happily creates dolls for even ...Read Review
Bleakly Hall
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After reviewing and very much enjoying Ms di Rollo’s first novel, A Proper Education for Girls, I eagerly awaited this, her second ...Read Review
London’s Sinful Secret: The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London’s Georgian Age
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Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank’s newest book is a lengthy but fascinating examination of a not-so-secret aspect of Georgian London: the sex industry. ...Read Review
Defiant
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Jamie Lost is a knight in service to King John, and his most recent orders are to abduct a rebellious priest and bring ...Read Review
The Scarlet Kimono
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In the spring of 1611, warlord Taro Kumashiro is warned by a seer of a red-haired, blue-eyed woman sailing to Japan. Meanwhile, in England, 17...Read Review
The Bird Sisters
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This story opens in the summer of 1947 in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Sisters Milly and Twiss are fourteen and twelve respectively. There does not ...Read Review
The Long-Shining Waters
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Across the centuries, three women find their fates bound to the shores of Lake Superior. In 1622, Grey Rabbit, a member of the Ojibwe ...Read Review
Never a Gentleman
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Readers first met Grace Fairchild, worthy friend and daughter of a general in the Napoleonic Wars, who stalwartly accompanied her father on campaign ...Read Review
