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Anya Seton: A Writing Life
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This fascinating biography of Anya (born Ann) Seton covers the entirety of the beloved author’s life, from the childhood of her parents ...Read Review
Smouldering Fires
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Amy Delatour, a shy, awkward high school senior, lives an unhappy life in Greenwich, Connecticut in the 1970s. Her mother is cold and ...Read Review
Child of the Morning
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Child of the Morning, set in ancient Egypt, follows Queen-Pharaoh Hatshepsut from her early childhood as the favorite daughter of Thothmes the First ...Read Review
Calico Palace
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Two women meet in a village of 900 people in 1848 California. Kendra reluctantly accompanies her stepfather, who is an army officer assigned to what ...Read Review
Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family
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The author has dedicated this publication to her father, and rightly so. His desire to research and record his family history laid the ...Read Review
Celia Garth
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Celia Garth is tired of being a poor relation. Determined to make her way as a dressmaker in revolutionary Charleston, South Carolina, ...Read Review
Foxfire
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This novel, first published in 1951, is set in New York City and the Arizona in the 1930s. Amanda Lawrence, a sheltered young woman, ...Read Review
Thornyhold
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A welcome reissue of Mary Stewart’s novella, this story is set in 1940s England, and features Gilly Ramsey, a young woman who ...Read Review
Kentucky Clay
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When I received this book to review, I expected it to be largely centered on two of Kentucky’s most famous Clays, statesman ...Read Review
The Hearth and Eagle
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This novel, first published in 1948, was the fourth written by Anya Seton, a popular historical fiction writer who died in 1990, and the author ...Read Review
