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Pax
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As a postgraduate student more than three decades ago I had reason to be grateful to Dr. Harvey for his Victorian Novelists and ...Read Review
The Gimmicks: A Novel
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In his debut novel, The Gimmicks, Chris McCormick weaves an unusual tale of three Armenians living in the long shadow of the Armenian ...Read Review
The Borgia Confessions
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This is Alyssa Palombo’s fourth novel and, like her first two, this one takes place in Italy. Set during the Renaissance, it ...Read Review
The Testament of Leofric the Black: Volume One, 1040-57
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It is 1071, and William the Bastard has taken the Isle of Elig after an 18-month siege. The betrayer is Leofric the Black, or ...Read Review
The Lost Chapter
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Nero rules Rome in the first century AD and is destroying its best citizens with his ever-growing perversity, cruelty, and terrifying reprisals. Marius, ...Read Review
Under the Freedom Tree
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In 1861, three men escaped slavery by rowing across a body of water and being received and protected by the Northern army. Soon more ...Read Review
This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II
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In 1935, Alex Maki’s teacher assigns him a pen pal, a French Jew named Charlie Levy. Trouble is, Charlie is a girl! Despite ...Read Review
My Life is Like a Fairy Tale
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By 1945, Dutch bit-part actress and dancer Sonja Heda is finding it increasingly difficult to find roles. Not only are fewer films being made ...Read Review
A Thread So Fine
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St. Paul, Minnesota, 1946. Shannon and Eliza are about to start their first year of college. But when tragedy strikes each girl, their bond ...Read Review
The Earl Takes a Fancy: A Sins for All Seasons Novel
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Although she was born out of wedlock and raised among the working class, Fancy Trewlove’s family wants her to marry into the ...Read Review
