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2012

Restoration

By Olaf Olafsson - Published 2012

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Restoration looks compassionately at the life of a young English expatriate who, in the decade preceding World War II, impulsively marries a somewhat ...Read Review

Gone West

By Carola Dunn - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

It is 1926; Daisy Dalrymple, amateur sleuth, has done it again. Wherever Daisy goes, can murder be far behind? The answer in this case ...Read Review

A Good Man

By Guy Vanderhaeghe - Published 2012

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Western

In the 1870s, the resistance of the Plains Indians to the inexorable advance of the United States was coming to its tragic and ...Read Review

The Haunting of Maddy Clare

By Simone St. James - Published 2012

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Historical Fantasy Mystery/Crime

Debut author St. James has written an atmospheric and resoundingly old-fashioned ghost story that pulls you in from the first pages. Sarah Piper, ...Read Review

The Orchid House

By Lucinda Riley - Published 2011 Published 2012

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Julia Forrester, a renowned concert pianist, returns from the south of France to a coastal village in Norfolk, and her ancestral home in ...Read Review

City of Rocks: A Western Story

By Michael Zimmer - Published 2012

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Adventure Western

City of Rocks is built around a clever conceit: the interviews of Joseph Roper as part of the American Legends Collection, an offshoot ...Read Review

The Little Russian

By Susan Sherman - Published 2012

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Literary

Only the courage and endurance of the Jews of Russia match the suffering of the Jews of Russia. Susan Sherman’s ambitious first ...Read Review

Agent 6

By Tom Rob Smith - Published 2011 Published 2012

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Thriller

This sprawling novel begins with Moscow in 1950 with the chilling observation, “The safest way to write a diary was to imagine Stalin reading ...Read Review

The Dressmaker

By Kate Alcott - Published 2012 Published 2013

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A light romance released for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Kate Alcott’s tale of plucky Tess Collins follows ...Read Review

Passing Love

By Jacqueline E. Luckett - Published 2012

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Young RubyMae Garrett leaves Mississippi for Paris, following love and the lure of adventure. Postwar Paris is a place where dreams are made ...Read Review