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While Beauty Slept

By Elizabeth Blackwell - Published 2014

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This engrossing historical fantasy imagines the story of Sleeping Beauty as told by a young woman of humble birth who plays a key ...Read Review

True Spies

By Shana Galen - Published 2013

Genres:

Romance

In this Regency-era romance, Lady Elinor Keating has had enough of her loveless marriage and long-absent husband, Lord Winslow “Winn” Keating. Unhappy with ...Read Review

A Treacherous Paradise

By Henning Mankell - Published 2013

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The famed author of the popular Kurt Wallender series takes a real-life historical tidbit and expands it into a meaty novel of colonialism, ...Read Review

Desolation Island

By Adolfo Garcia Ortega - Published 2013 (c2012)

Genres:

Literary

At heart an early 20th-century tale of adventure, Adolfo Garcia Ortega’s Desolation Island is a dense and meaty novel for lovers of ...Read Review

The Resurrectionist

By Matthew Guinn - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

Matthew Guinn’s fascinating, occasionally macabre, and engrossing novel offers a story of redemption and renewal while revealing the uncomfortable details about the ...Read Review

The Family Mansion

By Anthony C. Winkler - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

A complicated character study and darkly comedic look at early 19th-century plantation life, The Family Mansion tells the story of a young Englishman’...Read Review

Antidote to Murder

By Felicity Young - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Dr. Dody McCleland, England’s first woman autopsy surgeon, returns in this second book by Felicity Young. Opening in June 1911, less than six ...Read Review

Jacob’s Folly

By Rebecca Miller - Published 2013

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Jacob’s Folly is a quirky, imaginative, and unusual novel spanning several centuries, characters, themes, and locales. Jacob Cerf, an 18th-century Parisian Jew, ...Read Review