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Brush Country
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Set in Texas after the American Civil War, Brush Country is an omnibus of two classic novels written in the 1960s by Elmer ...Read Review
Forgotten Faces
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This is the third volume in a thoroughly enjoyable saga in which the story of the Strong family is told against the background ...Read Review
Fool’s Gold
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The third title in Jane Jakeman’s Lord Ambrose mysteries finds Ambrose Malfine, Lord of the Malfine estate in the West Country of ...Read Review
The Egyptian Coffin
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The Egyptian Coffin is the second book in Jane Jakeman’s mystery series set in the 1830s, featuring the enigmatic, reclusive Lord Ambrose ...Read Review
Pride of Lancashire
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The dirt-poor Prestons have few prospects but many children. Carrie works tirelessly to feed and clothe her siblings, since her father is a ...Read Review
Lady of Sin
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In an effort to throw off the lethargy that had plagued her since her husband’s death, Charlotte Mardenford had attended an orgy ...Read Review
Holmes on the Range
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When a writer mixes genres, such as a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery and a Western, you hold your breath. Can two such disparate styles ...Read Review
Death on the Ladies Mile
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The Ladies Mile, stretching from 8th to 23rd Street in 1880s New York City, housed the shops and restaurants frequented by the city’...Read Review
The Priest’s Madonna
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In 1877, nine-year-old Marie Dernanaud meets Bérenger Saunière on the eve of the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, at the saint’s ...Read Review
Call To Arms
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Call to Arms is the first volume in an old-fashioned Civil War saga, the Palmetto trilogy. Allard Tyler and his friend Robert Gilmore ...Read Review