Laura Staley
Mrs. Ballou: A Novel Inspired by Actual People and Events
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At twenty-five, Addie Ballou was a spiritualist, medium and a public lecturer. She even went to war as a matron for the Union ...Read Review
Botticelli’s Bastard
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Giovannie Fabrizzi finds one of the paintings he inherited from his father speaks to him. Literally. At first he fears he is going ...Read Review
Anna Goeldin -The Last Witch
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In 1780 Switzerland, Anna Goeldin, 46, is unmarried, footloose, and attractive. She accepts a position as a maid for one of Glarus canton’s most ...Read Review
Because of the Camels
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Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth McDermott is excited: she is making her debut into Galveston, Texas society, and her mother’s cousin will soon be in ...Read Review
If Two Are Dead
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Thomas Dordrecht is perplexed. Daniel Sproul, a partner in the shipping firm he works for, has been found dead on the street. But ...Read Review
Pliney Fiske
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Pliney Fiske is a clerk in the Civil War Pension Office of Concord, New Hampshire. His job is to determine what compensation injured ...Read Review
City of Slaughter
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Carsie Akselrod and her sister Lilia escape from the Pale of Settlement after the murder of their parents by Cossacks. They find their ...Read Review
Heyerwood
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Sold into a sham marriage by her greedy father, Lady Catherine, Countess of Heyerwood, is astonished to find herself not just freed by ...Read Review
A Prince of Norway
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Newlywed Sydney Hansen is shocked to learn that one of the things her husband Nicolas has neglected to tell her is that he ...Read Review
Mandarin: A Novel of Vietnam
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Born in the late 19th century, Bach is the cherished oldest son of a patrician Vietnamese family. His is a divided world: nobles ...Read Review
