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Stan on Guard
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In this second book of the series, 3200-year-old Hittite Ishtanu (you can call him Stan) passes his immortal life in present-day Toronto as ...Read Review
Summer of Meteors
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It’s late in President Buchanan’s first term of office, and the question of slavery has America teetering on the brink of ...Read Review
The Enemy’s Wife (Survivors of War)
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Zofia is a visiting tutor for the family of Theo Carter, an American businessman, but unfortunately for this Jewish refugee from Eastern Europe, ...Read Review
No Man’s Land
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The fearsome forest is the setting for many fantasies: Mirkwood; the Wild Wood; the Silent Woman Woods; sometimes it is simply the Wood, ...Read Review
The Heart Has Its Reasons
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Annie Munro is a nursing student in Edinburgh whose growing political awareness causes her to become a fierce advocate for workers’ rights, transforming ...Read Review
Hold on to Tomorrow
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1963. M. B. Henry’s novel is set against one of American history’s most defining moments: the assassination of JFK in Dallas, Texas, ...Read Review
The Quarter Queen
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Fans of Anne Rice’s vampire novels will love this eventful imagining of the coming-of-age of Marie (“Ree”) Laveau II, the heir to ...Read Review
Liberty Island
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Hume tells the engaging tale of an extended family of Boston Brahmins who summer off the coast of Maine during the first two ...Read Review
Faithful of Heart (A Minnesota Legacy)
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Late 19th century. Judith Stanford has lost her entire family, including her husband, but continues her work as a philanthropist in Philadelphia until ...Read Review
Chopin’s Last Manuscript
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Chopin’s Last Manuscript tells the story of the famous Polish composer from the time he leaves Poland for a career in Vienna ...Read Review
