Pamela Ortega
A Christmas Garland
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This year’s holiday mystery from Anne Perry takes place in mid-nineteenth century India. A desperate and bloody rebellion has just been put ...Read Review
Darcy’s Voyage: A Tale of Uncharted Love on the Open Seas
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Janeites: Rejoice! Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy come alive again in this imaginative retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Kara Louise revisits the star-crossed ...Read Review
Nights Beneath the Nation
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Told in the first person, this novel, part gay love story and part mystery, just misses being very good. It is beautifully, even ...Read Review
Parrot and Olivier in America
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What a delight this witty novel is! Based on the journeys of Alexis de Tocqueville in the new American republic of the 1830s, ...Read Review
The Last Rendezvous
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Although this novel of early 19th-century France may have been a prize-winner in its original French, it is a slow, hard slog in ...Read Review
The Convict’s Sword: A Mystery of Eleventh-Century Japan
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I. J. Parker continues her series of medieval Japanese mysteries featuring nobleman Sugawara Akitada. This latest installment finds Akitada living in the capital ...Read Review
Child of the South
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This sequel to The Road from Chapel Hill continues the saga of Eugenia Mae Spotswood and Tom Maryson now that the Civil War ...Read Review
Prayers for Sale
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This charming novel follows the life of 86-year-old Hennie Comfort as revealed in the stories she spins for her newly married friend, 17-year-old ...Read Review
March Toward the Thunder
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Prolific author Joseph Bruchac tells the story of a 15-year-old Canadian Abenaki Indian boy who enlists in the Union Army in 1864 to obtain ...Read Review
The Red Necklace
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This book is a winner. Set during the French Revolution, the plot centers on a young Gypsy boy, Yann, who uses his mind-reading ...Read Review
