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The Forest
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Edward Rutherfurd has given us the pageantry of Sarum, the teeming life of London and the vast exotic sweep of Russian history in ...Read Review
The Kingsley House
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I’ve always had a soft spot for multi-generational sagas, although The Kingsley House is much more than these simple words can describe. ...Read Review
The Stars Compel
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In this sequel to The Stars Dispose, Roessner continues her retelling of the life of Catherine de’ Medici in a story whose characters ...Read Review
Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
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Children of a wealthy landholder in early medieval Ireland, Sorcha of Sevenwaters and her six elder brothers grow up surrounded by lakes and ...Read Review
The Black Chalice
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Paul von Arduin, now a monk, is compelled by sorcery to write the truth of his adventures with his former master, Karelian Brandeis. ...Read Review
Percival and the Presence of God
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This is the first novel reprinted in the Pendragon Fiction line. Originally published in England in 1978, the novel is an exploration of the ...Read Review
The Merlin of St. Gilles’ Well (The Joan of Arc Tapestries)
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Biographical FictionHistorical Fantasy
In the early 1400s, Jean le Drapier, a maimed Breton seer, awaits the birth of La Pucinelle, the girl he has seen in ...Read Review
A Prayer for the Dying
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For a historical horror novel set in post-Civil War Wisconsin, A Prayer for the Dying has an experimental prose style: present tense, strong ...Read Review
The Tree of Life: A Novel
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The Tree of Life is a powerful novel about one man’s journey in faith. as he journeys through life in the early 1800...Read Review
In the Arms of the Sky
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Based on a true story, In The Arms of The Sky fictionalizes a brief period in the life of a world-traveling Englishwoman, Isabella ...Read Review