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The Stronghold
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A young boy, in an act of showing off, strikes the spark that places himself, his father and the entire countryside in danger. ...Read Review
The Dragon Phoenix Bracelet
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Monica Li has set her family saga in a tumultuous period of Chinese history: the twentieth century. During these years, the apparent stability ...Read Review
A Handful of Straw
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A Handful of Straw is both a historical romance and an examination of attitudes to witchcraft. Rensten has carefully researched the trial of ...Read Review
The Last Campaign of Marianne Tambour: A Novel of Waterloo
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The canteen-mistresses or cantinières of Napoleon’s army are a hidden part of history, one populated by courageous women such as Marianne ...Read Review
Kuriniji Flowers
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Kuriniji Flowers is a novel of British India and the marriage of debutante, Ginny Dunbar, to a tea planter. This is a sweeping, ...Read Review
An Unlamented Death: A Mystery Set In Georgian England
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Adam Bascom, a young Norfolk doctor, comes across a body lying in a churchyard near his family home. The death appears accidental: no ...Read Review
The Sword & the Scabbard: Thieves and Thugs and the Bloody Massacre in Boston
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Nicholas Gray and Maggie Magowan run the Sword and Scabbard, a tavern in Boston’s North End, in Allen Woods’ engrossing novel dramatizing ...Read Review
Julius Caesar’s Centurion
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Peter Wev’s main character, the eponymous centurion of Julius Caesar while the future dictator was stationed in Gaul, is a man named ...Read Review
Roses in the Tempest
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Jeri Westerson, author of the popular and well-received “Crispin Guest” murder mystery series, bases her latest novel on story of real-life Tudor era ...Read Review
Miserere
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During the Potato Famine, an Irish farmer sells his daughters Orla and Caitriona N. Faolain, to an English landowner to serve as indentured ...Read Review