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The Abominable
In a sense, this book cheated me, for the blurb raised expectations of discovering yeti on Everest. Instead it is…
War Dog: The No-Man’s Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies…
Technically this book is creative non-fiction rather than a novel, as it features real events and people who were all…
The English Girl
In 1937, pianist Stella Whittaker is accepted as a student at the prestigious Academy of Music in Vienna. Her mother…
The Longest Ride
Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson, stranded in a snowy embankment after a car accident, swears his wife Ruth, beloved, but dead nine…
Warlord: A novel of Robin Hood
Warlord opens with Prince John groveling before his elder brother, King Richard. The king’s men, including Robin Hood and the…
The Outlaw Knight
Early in the novel, young Fulke FitzWarin, while serving as a squire in the court of Henry II, earns the…
Shadows on the Nile
Jessie Kenton traumatically “lost” her autistic little brother when she was seven. Twenty years later, when Georgie’s adopted replacement, the…
Death in St. James Park
In Restoration London, former Roundhead Thomas Chaloner is a spy with a Royalist employer who neither likes nor trusts him,…
Ravenscliffe
Set in Yorkshire in 1904, this novel depicts the lives of ten or more characters living in or around the…
The Time Keeper
“Long ago, at the dawn of man’s history”, somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia, Dor is the first man on earth to…
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