Michael I. Shoop
Secrets in a House Divided: A Novel of Civil War Richmond
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During the summer of 1864, young wife and mother Amanda Ayers Carter is struggling to survive with her daughter Nell in their Richmond home ...Read Review
When Winter Comes
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A narrator known as Mrs. Jacob Klein attempts to set the record straight about the ill-fated Donner Party, which left Independence, Missouri, to ...Read Review
Varina
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At Saratoga Springs in 1906, the widowed Varina Howell Davis relates pieces of her life’s journey to visitor James Blake (aka “Jimmie Limber”), ...Read Review
Savage Country
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It’s 1873, and the vast American West is a place of wondrous untamed natural beauty and unrestrained violence. Elizabeth Coughlin, a lovely widow ...Read Review
The Indigo Girl
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With her younger brothers away at school in England, and her father’s departure, 16-year-old Eliza Lucas is left to manage three plantations ...Read Review
The Confessions of Young Nero
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The awesome power, political maneuverings, decadence, and general nastiness of ancient Rome are brought vividly to life in this hefty, lavishly written novel ...Read Review
The Woman on the Orient Express
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In October 1928, noted mystery novelist Agatha Christie boarded the Orient Express, bound for Mesopotamia. Still smarting from her divorce and wanting to be ...Read Review
The Summer Before the War
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The highly capable and well-educated Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal village of Rye in Sussex, England, to take up her new post ...Read Review
The Conqueror’s Wife
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After witnessing his father’s murder at games celebrating a royal wedding, the handsome, god-like warrior Alexander of Macedon ascends the throne as ...Read Review
Cleopatra’s Shadows
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While Cleopatra is universally known, her older and younger sisters, Berenice and Arsinoe, have been relegated to mere footnotes in history. Author Holleman ...Read Review
