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The Lost Daughter (The Love and War Series)
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Twenty-first-century Britain finds Elizabeth Swingle in a very grim place: an unhappy marriage, a difficult daughter, and caring for a mother struggling in ...Read Review
The Shut-Away Sisters
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Through a series of diaries, letters and poems found in the old home of two aunts she had barely known, Kate Miles uncovers ...Read Review
Yasodhara and the Buddha
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When Prince Siddhartha begins the series of pilgrimages that lead to his becoming the Buddha, he leaves behind his wife, who is pregnant ...Read Review
Haven Point
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This novel is a multigenerational story of the Demarest family, who spend their summers at Haven Point, Maine, the backdrop for heartbreaks that ...Read Review
Between Tides
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With a brief but personal memory of a little-known aspect of the American Civil War, this novel mostly covers events of the 1890s ...Read Review
Nile Cat
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In December 1871, 14-year-old twins Rose and Lily accompany their mother and Egyptologist father to Egypt. After Rose is given a small cat statue, ...Read Review
Becoming Leidah
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Becoming Leidah is set in 19th-century Norway at a time when Christianity coexisted with beliefs in pagan or folkloric gods. The people of ...Read Review
Paint and Nectar (Heirloom Secrets)
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This multi-generational romance takes place primarily in 1929 and in present-day Charleston, South Carolina. Lucy Legare unexpectedly inherits an old house, although she has ...Read Review
Late City
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When I heard that Robert Olen Butler had come out with a new historical novel, I was expecting a well-written, tightly plotted thriller ...Read Review
Heart in the Highlands
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In this Scottish Regency romance, Collum Darrington agrees to an arranged marriage with Lady Katherine Hadleigh if his father, the Duke of Edinbane, ...Read Review
