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Mortal Sins
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New Orleans’ reputation for political corruption and urban violence serves as an intriguing backdrop for the outlandish behavior and Mardi Gras mayhem also ...Read Review
City of Angels (Shannon Saga, 1)
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This novel, set on the cusp of the women’s rights movement in the first years of the 20th century, is about a ...Read Review
The Floating Lady Murder: A Harry Houdini Mystery (Harry Houdini Mysteries)
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
This sequel to The Dime Museum Murders is second in a mystery series featuring struggling young stage illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini (1874...Read Review
Promise of Light: A Novel
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It’s the unusual death of Ben Sheridan’s father that stalks him throughout this novel. Sheridan’s search takes him from his ...Read Review
The Forger
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David Halifax, a young American painter, accepts a scholarship from the Levasseur Committee for Fine Arts. The scholarship intrigues him, as he had ...Read Review
Nine Bells for a Man
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Robert Pachal is a farmer from Saskatchewan who agrees to accompany his late brother-in-law’s body back to Ontario, after the latter dies ...Read Review
Slapstick
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In 1927, movies gained a voice — and many stars lost their careers. Slapstick chronicles the fall of silent screen comic genius Harold Gilbert, whose ...Read Review
Jerusalem Vigil: The Zion Legacy Book I (Zion Legacy (Paperback))
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The first of the Thoenes’ three-book Zion Legacy series starts with the declaration of sovereignty by David Ben-Gurion on Friday, May 14, 1948 and continues ...Read Review
The Song And The Truth
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The Song and the Truth is told in the voice of a young child whose stories of dreams and reality are so intermingled ...Read Review
Children of My Heart
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Gabrielle Roy, beloved of the Canadian literary establishment, died in 1983. Ces enfants de ma vie was her last novel. This edition of Alan ...Read Review