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Plum Wine

By Angela Davis-Gardner - Published 2006

Genres:

While teaching at a Tokyo school in the 1960s, Barbara Jefferson receives a bequest from her Japanese surrogate mother and mentor, Michiko Nakamoto. ...Read Review

Samsara Moon

By S.H. Post - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure Military

Samsara Moon is the debut novel from HNS member S.H. Post. The story follows the life of British military man Captain ...Read Review

Avalon

By Anya Seton - Published 2006 Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

Having thoroughly enjoyed Anya Seton’s Katherine, I was excited to delve into this reissue of her 1965 classic novel Avalon. I was not ...Read Review

The Dark Mirror

By Juliet Marillier - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Historical Fantasy

Bridei is a young nobleman fostered at the home of Broichan, one of the most powerful druids in the land. His earliest memories ...Read Review

Dawn of a Thousand Nights

By Tricia Goyer - Published 2005

Genres:

Inspirational Military Romance

Libby Conners, a civilian pilot, and Dan Lukens, a hot shot U.S. Army Air Corps pilot, fall in love in 1941, in the ...Read Review

Evening Ferry

By Katherine Towler - Published 2005

Genres:

Saga

The second installment of the Snow Island trilogy continues the story of the inhabitants of this isolated island off the New England coast. ...Read Review

Song of Miriam

By Pearl Wolf - Published 2003

Genres:

Epic Romance

Song of Miriam is the tale of a young and beautiful Jewess destined to take her place among royal society in Russia. Set ...Read Review

Victorine

By Catherine Texier - Published 2004

Genres:

Romance Saga

Imagine if, years after having established a family, a long lost lover magically reappears in your life. What if your domestic life is ...Read Review

The Glory Cloak

By Patricia O’Brien - Published 2004

Genres:

Epic

In 1858, newly orphaned Susan Grey arrives in tranquil, insulated Concord, Massachusetts, to live with the family of her cousin, Louisa May Alcott. ...Read Review

The Touch

By Colleen McCullough - Published 2003 Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

The author returns to Australia with a romantic family saga encompassing the events of the late nineteenth century. Alexander Kinross fled his family’...Read Review