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Second Wind

Roan Rose

By Juliet Waldron - Published 2012

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In this novel set in late 15th-century England, Rose Whitby, the young daughter of a peasant midwife, becomes the servant and playmate of ...Read Review

Celluloid Strangers

By Eric Wasserman - Published 2012

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Four brothers—Mori, Joe, Simon and Benny—move from the mean streets of Dorchester, Massachusetts to the cleaner but no less menacing boulevards ...Read Review

The Pirate’s Bastard

By Laura S. Wharton - Published 2010

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Adventure Nautical

This short mid-18th century novel is awash in seafaring legal and piratical, secrets, courtship, blackmail and colonial history of North Carolina and ...Read Review