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Two Centuries, One Year
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During World War I, the United States government needed lots of gunpowder, fast. For a tiny West Virginia town chosen to supply it, ...Read Review
Taming Lady Temperance: A Christian Opposites Attract Frontier Western Historical Romance with Cowboys (The Secret Society of Spinsters)
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Twenty-seven-year-old Noreen O’Sullivan has come from hard circumstances. Her alcoholic father often beat her and her mother and ruined the family farm ...Read Review
Thornby Manor
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1891. Briar Monroe is a young woman struggling with the aftermath of the deaths of her parents. Though believed to be wealthy, she is ...Read Review
Crescendo
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In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock started a new movie project and then abandoned it. That much is true. Crescendo imagines the film he might have ...Read Review
On Living Stone
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When readers first meet a 12-year-old Salome in 2 BC, she’s a girl who’s lost her mother and lives with her crippled ...Read Review
George Falls Through Time
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Glum Londoner George is at a crossroads. Laid off from his data entry job and recently dumped by his boyfriend, he’s trying ...Read Review
An Absent Life: Elizabeth, the “Mad” Duchess of Albemarle, 1654-1734 (Volume 2) (Recollections)
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An Absent Life is a sensitively written, richly illustrated, and meticulously documented biography of the tragic Duchess Elizabeth Cavendish, drawn from original papers ...Read Review
Hiding the Flame
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Hiding the Flame is the second volume in the Women of Renaissance Florence series. It is a portal to another world, transporting us ...Read Review
The Last Gypsy Queen
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In 1941, Marisol is a new bride and then a widow very quickly. She does not miss her husband, a violent man with whom ...Read Review
The Temptation of Charlotte North
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Margaret’s Keep is a small island owned almost entirely by the Norths. Three of their daughters are respectful of their parents, while ...Read Review
