Biographical Fiction
The Black Rose
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Born to emancipated slaves in 1867, Sarah Breedlove (later known as Madam C. J. Walker) struggled through poverty, racism and sexism to become America’...Read Review
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
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This is a difficult book to review. A fictionalized life of Joey Smallwood, the last Father of Confederation in Canada, it has much ...Read Review
The Messenger
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In 1920, Aida Cheng, the daughter of a Chinese man and Cuban woman, is propelled into a fantastic situation. Before she dies, she reveals ...Read Review
The Last Cantata
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
King Frederick II of Prussia summons the elderly J. S. Bach from Leipzig to Potsdam for a meeting. When Bach is ushered into ...Read Review
The Oasis (Lord of the Two Lands)
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In this, Volume 2 of Pauline Gedge’s Lords of Two Lands Trilogy, the struggle of Egypt’s native nobilty to overthrow the reigning ...Read Review
Akhenaten: Dweller In Truth
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The story of the “heretic” Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten and his fabulously beautiful wife, Nefertiti, continues to fascinate, as evidenced in this recent translation ...Read Review
Cutter’s Island: Caesar In Captivity
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This short novel retells a story found in Plutarch. Young Julius Caesar was captured by pirates who planned to ransom him for 20 talents; ...Read Review
Clovis, King Of The Franks
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In the year 486, a Frankish chief named Clovis vanquishes the last Roman ruler in Gaul. Soon his name is synonymous with strength and ...Read Review
The Angel and the Sword
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The dark and bloody pathways and streets of ninth century France are the backdrop against which Holland retells the traditional French story of ...Read Review
The Beggar’s Throne
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Just when you thought there must be nothing new to write about the Wars of the Roses, along comes this well-researched, highly entertaining ...Read Review
