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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Prelude to Glory, v.1: Our Sacred Honor
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Ron Carter is a deeply religious individual who intends his multi-volume work on the Dunson family of Boston to serve as an example ...Read Review
Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works
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This is Anne Hathaway’s story, written years after her husband has died. Her daughter Susanna has given her a beautiful book of ...Read Review
The Sea Hath Spoken
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In this 3rd in a Colonial New England crime series, Quaker sister and brother Richard and Jane Whitcomb arrive from England, landing at ...Read Review
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
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Biographical FictionEpicMilitary
This book spans a period between 1536 and 1583, and is essentially the story (very well-known there) of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s rise from street brat ...Read Review
Much Ado About Love
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William Shakespeare’s plays may have been written by a number of other people, or so it’s claimed, but the premise of ...Read Review
Duchess
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Biographical FictionInspirationalLiterary
The Duchess of the title is Diane de Poitiers, one-time mistress to the King of France, François I, and thereafter, full-time mistress ...Read Review
A Mystery of Errors
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
After viewing a performance by a traveling theater troupe, stage-struck apprentice blacksmith Symington “Tuck” Smythe leaves his country village and heads for London, ...Read Review
The Poyson Garden
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
“Down wi’ the Boleyns, e’en the royal one!” is the cry of a group dedicated to the destruction of the Boleyn family, ...Read Review
The Real People Series
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Individual titles are: The Way of the Priests (ISBN 0806132728), The Dark Way (0806132736), The White Path (0806132744), The Way South (0806132752), The Long Way Home (0806132760), The ...Read Review
To Ruin a Queen
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Fiona Buckley draws the reader into the story with her lively and fluid first-person narration: “The journey that took me from the Châ...Read Review