2004
Voices Over Water
In this contrived and clunky novel, Herlong-Bodman tells the story of Sarah Edings, a South Carolina planter’s daughter and Confederate…
Whose Names are Unknown
Set in the Dust Bowl 1930s, Whose Names Are Unknown gets its poignant title from a legal eviction notice of…
The Daguerreotype
In 1849, Elizabeth Gow is given a keepsake for her seventeenth birthday: a daguerreotype portrait of her father, contained in…
Gift of the Bambino
In Gift of the Bambino, Jerry Amernic pens a misty paean to baseball, Babe Ruth, and the hopes and dreams…
All or Nothing At All
Is it any comfort to know that the “can women have it all?” debate didn’t originate with the current generation?…
Lady Scandal
Widowed Alexandria Sandal finds her Paris holiday cut short when war is declared between France and England in 1803. Responsible…
The Garden of Martyrs
Though based on true events, not much happens in Michael White’s novel, a vibrant and deeply-felt tale of miscarried justice…
Tested by Fate
Second of a “trilogy-in-the-making,” this novel delves deeper into the lives of Horatio Nelson, one of England’s greatest naval heroes,…
The News from Paraguay
Through the eyes of a legion of characters from all sectors of society, Lily Tuck gives us the distressing news…
Sharpe’s Escape
Richard Sharpe and the venerated, dutiful Pat Harper return in a finely honed and sometimes satirical fashion in Cornwell’s twentieth…
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