Waheed Rabbani
The Gates of Athens: Book One in the Athenian series
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About 490 BCE, the aging Persian King Darius, and his young son, Xerxes, stand on a hilltop overlooking the smoldering ruins of Persian-controlled Sardis. ...Read Review
The Sorrow of Miles Franklin beneath Mount Kajmakcalan
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In 1917, a famous Australian author, Miles Franklin, arrives at the Scottish Women’s Hospital in Macedonia. While her position as a nurse might ...Read Review
Lucia’s War
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At the Royal Albert Hall in 1950 London, famed soprano Lucia Percival, grieving over some news, declines to appear at her concert. At the ...Read Review
Orphans of Empire
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In 1858 Colonel Sir Richard Moody arrives in New Brighton—near what is now Vancouver—to assist the British Governor in establishing the British ...Read Review
City of Schemes (A Counterfeit Lady Novel)
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In post-WWI New York, Elizabeth Miles, a former con artist, is preparing to marry Gideon, a respectable lawyer. Elizabeth, wishing to have a ...Read Review
The Note Through the Wire
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In 1942 Slovenia, Bruce, a POW from New Zealand, is at the perimeter fence of a stalag. He spots someone who appears to be ...Read Review
Wicked Mistress Yale, The Parting Glass (The Yale Trilogy)
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In 1700 London, the East India Company’s (EIC) former governor, Elihu Yale, recently returned from Madras, is at a dinner party with his ...Read Review
Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War
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In October 1942 in Venice, 23-year-old Antonina (Nina) tends to her invalid mother. Later, Nina observes a Catholic priest visiting her Jewish physician father ...Read Review
Dawn Empress: A Novel of Imperial Rome (The Theodosian Women)
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In 404 AD in Constantinople’s imperial palace, Emperor Arcadius of the Eastern Roman Empire pulls his five-year-old daughter, Pulcheria, into her dead mother’...Read Review
Patchwork Society (Bread and Roses)
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In 1932, leaving her problems behind in Lethbridge, Alberta, Carla Durling and her teenage daughter Ivy relocate to the Northern Ontario town of Sault ...Read Review
