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Never a Bride

By Amelia Grey - Published 2010

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Camden Thurston Brackley, Viscount Stonehurst, has returned to Regency London from America after six years. A longstanding betrothal awaits, necessary to shore up ...Read Review

A Night of Long Knives

By Rebecca Cantrell - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The second in a gripping mystery series set in 1930s Berlin, Rebecca Cantrell brings back her journalist Hannah Vogel who again, and despite ...Read Review

Walking to Gatlinburg

By Howard Frank Mosher - Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

Part tall tale, part historical fiction, this book opens in northern Vermont in 1864 when young abolitionist Morgan Kinneson neglects his duty to runaway ...Read Review

Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape

By Marsha Altman - Published 2010

Genres:

Romance

Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape, a new sequel to Pride and Prejudice, opens some years after Elizabeth Bennet has married her beloved Mr. ...Read Review

Broken Music

By Marjorie Eccles - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the golden summer of 1914, Lady Sybil Foley plans a dinner party. Her husband, “self-made man” Alfred, has provided her lavish life style ...Read Review

Beyond the Blossoming Fields

By Jun’ichi Watanabe - Published 2008

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Biographical Fiction

Set in Japan from 1851 to 1913, this novel illuminates the life of Ginko Ogino, the first woman doctor in that country. Married in her ...Read Review

Woodsburner

By John Pipkin - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Literary

In this novel based on a true story, Henry David Thoreau accidentally sets fire to three hundred acres of woods near Concord, Massachusetts, ...Read Review