Kelly Cannon
A Draught for a Dead Man
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Caroline Roe sets her medieval mystery in a locale other than England and makes its main character unique in both ethnicity and disability. ...Read Review
Foreign Mud: Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War that Followed
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First published in 1946 and long out of print, this nonfiction historical account brings an obscure (at least to most Americans) subject engagingly to ...Read Review
Worlds That Weren’t
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These four alternate-history novellas make an appetite-whetting introduction for the neophyte. In Turtledove’s The Daimon, Socrates looks on in dismay as a ...Read Review
The Treasure Of Montsegur
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Jeanne was raised by a Cathar holy woman. The man Jeanne loved married her best friend, and eventually the three of them faced ...Read Review
Pride of Kings
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An intriguing historical fantasy sheds a refreshing new light on the English king deemed so evil that no subsequent king should ever bear ...Read Review
Salt
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Young Anna Stockton’s childhood ends when she is sent to work for a well-to-do family. Her employers’ tragedy ends that job, but ...Read Review
The God Who Begat a Jackal
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From the author of the acclaimed memoir of Ethiopia, Notes from the Hyena’s Belly, comes a haunting first novel steeped in African ...Read Review
Conjuring Maud
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The lush, vibrant and often harsh landscape of colonial West Africa provides a stunning backdrop to this tale of offbeat characters and an ...Read Review
Aztec Blood
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A Gary Jennings novel is always a breathless, exotic and occasionally shocking ride, and this is no exception. Third in a trilogy of ...Read Review
Here’s to You, Jesusa!
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First published in Spanish in 1969, Here’s to You, Jesusa! is the fictional autobiography of a poor Mexican woman, here translated into English. ...Read Review