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The Sentimental Soldier
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The mystery content of this Regency romance is slight but definitely present. Miss Prudence Marland, guised as a Moroccan prince, is rescued by ...Read Review
Badger Boy
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The Texas frontier, spring, 1865. So begins this latest historical western novel by one of the long-time giants in the field, Elmer Kelton. This ...Read Review
If the South had won the Civil War
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Kantor’s short tale of an alternative U.S. Civil War first appeared in the now defunct LOOK magazine in November 1960. It was ...Read Review
The Witch from the Sea
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In 1823, half-Indian Victoria “Tory” MacKenzie flees an unpromising future in Boston by disguising herself as a male and stowing away on a ship. ...Read Review
Sweet Boundless
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In Sweet Boundless, the evil that held Crystal has been taken away by a devastating flood. No one has been untouched by the ...Read Review
The Rose Legacy
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In The Rose Legacy, having left her home in California, Carina Maria DiGratia sets out to seek her destiny in the tiny mountain ...Read Review
Die Upon a Kiss
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In 1830s New Orleans they don’t have cable TV, the Internet, or the WWF — but they do have opera! It’s the ...Read Review
The Good Journey
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AdventureBiographical FictionRomance
“Sixteen years ago, when I followed the General away, I had known him for only three days. I reconciled myself then to sleeping ...Read Review
The Master Executioner
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Estleman, who has written many thrillers, here writes of the post-Civil War years of the American West. However, this is not a “western” ...Read Review
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
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The name Arthur Conan Doyle is inextricably linked with Sherlock Holmes, yet Doyle created another character who, while not as polished and insightful ...Read Review
