Janette King
The Mercury Visions of Louis DaGuerre
Louis Daguerre, artist and inventor, is being poisoned, a victim of toxic chemicals used in the imaging process that…
Plenty Porter
Set in rural Illinois in the early 1950s, Plenty Porter follows the youngest of eleven children. Twelve-year-old Plenty is…
The Secret River
The Secret River follows the life of William Thornhill, born into the working class of London in the late 1700s.…
Whispers
The female owners of the Diablo Springs Hotel and Saloon are haunted: for four generations, the mothers of the…
The Last Witchfinder
Jennet Stearne’s childhood wasn’t typical, but it was happy, or at least it began that way. Her home life morally…
A Sudden Country
A story of survival, A Sudden Country is a fictionalized chronicle of real events on the 1847 Oregon migration. Former…
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