2012
The Stolen Bride
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When Malgwyn accompanies King Arthur to help settle a dispute in Doged’s troubled lands, they arrive to find more than ambitious nobles ...Read Review
Into the Free
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Cantrell’s outstanding debut is no ordinary coming-of-age novel. For Millie Reynolds, daughter of a downtrodden, morphine-addicted mother and a wife-beating, half-Choctaw father, ...Read Review
A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death that Changed the British Monarchy
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The image of Queen Victoria as a dour, gloomy widow in black pervades popular culture, overshadowing the vivacious young queen recently brought back ...Read Review
The Rose of Winslow Street
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On a hot humid night in late May 1879, spinster Libby Sawyer and her father are out on the lawn of her brother’s ...Read Review
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
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The timespan of this beautifully written and translated novella is less than an hour — the time it takes for Liese to walk from ...Read Review
The White Pearl
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Strap yourself in, cup of tea at the ready, and prepare for some excellent entertainment; you will struggle to tear yourself away from ...Read Review
The O’Briens
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Behrens follows up his Governor General’s award-winning Law of Dreams with a multi-generational family saga. At the turn of the 20th century, ...Read Review
The Bedlam Detective
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It’s not often I read a book in one sitting; with this novel, I didn’t leave my chair for so much ...Read Review
Enchantments
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In this novel’s afterword, author Harrison explains that as an 11-year-old she latched onto Robert Massie’s masterful biography, Nicholas and Alexandra. ...Read Review
A Parliament of Spies
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1368, in the reign of Richard II. Richard has summoned Parliament, and all the nobles must attend him at Westminster which includes the Archbishop ...Read Review
