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Where We Belong: An Orphan Train Novel
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The Depression devastates Callum Hollbrook. He loses a steady job. His wife dies giving birth to their second daughter. He places both girls ...Read Review
The Captain of Venice
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William Gold is a mercenary in the service of John Hawkwood during the 1377-1381 ‘War of the Eight Saints’ and the War of ...Read Review
The Lost Book of Lancelot
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The most famous of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table is the central figure in this compelling novel. Raised in secret ...Read Review
White Elephant
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1878, Madraspatnam, India: Aiden Byrne, an Irishman serving in the British Army, has done well for himself and risen through the ranks. While out ...Read Review
Fishbone Cinderella
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In this absorbing family saga, we meet two fascinating women: Yut Ying, born in Guangdong in 1933, and her daughter, Marigold, born in San ...Read Review
The Boleyn Secret
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This expansive novel, with its extraordinary breadth of knowledge and scrupulous attention to detail, tells the story of a sidelined Tudor personage, Katherine ...Read Review
Where the Sky Begins
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The first, and hugely anticipated, race for women pilots started in California in May 1929. Twenty top women pilots of the time, including Amelia ...Read Review
The Thief and the Vizier
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Baghdad, AD 796. In the bustling multicultural capital of the Abassid caliphate, a petty thief called Nasir steals some rubies and finds himself embroiled ...Read Review
Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller
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Thirteen-year-old Lily Tripp has been in love with Ollie all her life. Or should that be all her lives? While York in 2025 is ...Read Review
Books Up the Mountain: A Packhorse Librarian Story
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During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration hired almost a thousand women living in Appalachia to deliver books, newspapers, pamphlets, and other ...Read Review
