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Devilish
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Known as the eminence noire of England, Bey Malloren, the Marquess of Rothgar, lives up to his moniker. Powerful at Court, mysterious, magnetic. ...Read Review
English Civil War Through the Restoration in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, 1625-1999 (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History)
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Freelance researcher Murph presents a descriptive list of fictional works all set between the beginning of Charles I’s reign (1625) and the death ...Read Review
The Inquisitor
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Brother Bernard Peyre of Prouille, of the city of Lazet in the French Pyrenees, is surprisingly tolerant for a member of his profession. ...Read Review
A Far Better Rest
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“To-day they guillotined Danton; and with him died the fragile dream of Clemency, and all my hopes and prayers.” So opens Susanne Alleyn’...Read Review
The Samurai’s Wife
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Normally the most absorbing aspect of even a historical whodunit is the plot, but in Rowland’s superb Sano and Reiko series her ...Read Review
The Blind in Darkness
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Old Man Powell is found murdered in his cabin, the crime disguised as a scalping. The natural suspect is Massaquoit, an Indian whom ...Read Review
Sor Juana’s Second Dream: A Novel
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This lovely novel can be read without any previous knowledge of the famous Mexican nun. The author evokes the feel of 17th century ...Read Review
The Heretic
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Set in fifteenth-century Spain, The Heretic tells the story of a converso Christian who rediscovers his Jewish roots, with dire consequences. Steeped in ...Read Review
The Sun and the Moon
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King Henry II of England suspects that his estranged wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, conspires against him. To ferret out the truth, he enlists ...Read Review
The Forgotten Queen (Warrior Queen)
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The early twelfth century, during the reign of Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, was a time of relative peace. It was ...Read Review
