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Intoxicated! A Novel of Money, Madness and the Invention of the World’s Favorite Soft Drink
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Yorkshire, 1869. En route from France by train, Isaac Brookes nearly kicks a bunch of smelly rags out the door of his compartment only ...Read Review
Penelope and Prince Charming
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One fine day, Penelope Trask is walking to the village with her friend when a mad horseman gallops up to them. He asks ...Read Review
Stolen Waters
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Set in the declining days of the Regency, the tainted hint of decadent decline is startlingly evident in this most unusual Regency novel. ...Read Review
Death du Jour
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What a great idea, a mystery series during the French Revolution when restaurants began, chefs to the aristocrats finding themselves suddenly without employers. ...Read Review
The Widow’s War
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As a whaler’s wife living on Cape Cod in 1761, Lyddie Berry always knew the dangers. One windy January afternoon, when her cousins ...Read Review
Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead
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Salt, a Yankee hemp farmer, lives in New York with his wife, a teenage son and his Tory father-in-law. The American Revolution comes ...Read Review
Sparrowhawk Book Five: Revolution
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This fifth book of six in the series picks up in June of 1765 and follows the debate and turmoil surrounding the Stamp Act ...Read Review
Surrender
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Set in Albany, New York, in 1755, Clare begins her trilogy with this wonderful story. Blackmailed into serving the wily Lord William Wentworth and ...Read Review
No Quarter
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It is 1799, and the young American navy is faced with challenges on the high seas – both from Great Britain, who tries to impress ...Read Review
The Reaper
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The year is 1775. As the book opens, Captain Gilbert Anthony’s dying father, the famous “Fighting James Anthony,” retired Vice Admiral of the ...Read Review