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The Thin Place
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Scotland, present day. Reporter Ava is working on a story about Overtoun Bridge, outside Overtoun House in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Over the years, ...Read Review
The Raven Banner
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This second book in Tim Hodkinson’s rip-roaring Viking adventure series, The Whale Road Chronicles, sees Einar plying his trade as a bard ...Read Review
The Mirror Dance
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The Mirror Dance is the 15th of Catriona McPherson’s Dandy Gilver novels. Dandy is a middle-aged mother from the minor nobility who ...Read Review
The Kew Gardens Girls
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Ivy and Louisa must hide their silver hammer brooches when working at Kew Gardens in London or they might be fired. The tiny ...Read Review
Dance with Death (A Barker & Llewelyn Novel 12)
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A delicious romp through Victorian London’s high society as well as its criminal underworld, this book, the thirteenth in the Barker & ...Read Review
China
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Rutherfurd stumbles uncharacteristically in this tepid outing, his first set outside of a Western culture. In 1839, John Trader comes to China from England, ...Read Review
My Dear Miss Dupré (American Royalty)
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Willow Dupré, a wealthy heiress from one of the foremost families on Fifth Avenue, is the most sought-after lady in New York society. ...Read Review
The Secret Stealers
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Recently widowed Anna Cavanaugh takes a job with the OSS in Washington, DC, becoming assistant to General William Donovan, Roosevelt’s right-hand man. ...Read Review
Tonight is Already Tomorrow
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Genoa, 1938. Mussolini’s new racial laws are deporting Jews. The Rimon family—Marc, Emilia, and their precocious son Alessandro—is faced with a ...Read Review
Molly Lake in the Quebec Affair
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In 1759, 15-year-old Molly Lake and her family, living on a farm near Schenectady, New York, are attacked by Indians led by a Canadian. ...Read Review