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Annaliese, Sound and True
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Annaliese Stregal is newly widowed in the first years of the 20th century, left with her husband’s lumber company, two young children ...Read Review
The Liverpool Nightingales (The Nursing Series)
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Starting her story in 1870 and moving the location to a deprived area of Liverpool, the latest offering from Kate Eastham sees another group ...Read Review
Goya: The Terrible Sublime: A Graphic Novel
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The work of artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) runs the gamut from sedate portraits of the Spanish royal family to pornographic nudes to ...Read Review
Loving Liberty Levine
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Sarah Levine has what she calls “bad” thoughts about stealing the children of her relatives. In the early 1900s, her husband Micah decides ...Read Review
Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella
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The eight stories and one novella in Holladay’s collection prove that it’s possible to capture the essence of a place, characters, ...Read Review
Friends Call Me Bat (Five Star Western)
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In 1919, William Barclay “Bat” Masterson is a slightly plump, older, gray-haired NYC sportswriter who covers boxing. Bat is sought out by younger newsman ...Read Review
The Road Beyond Ruin
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Germany’s surrender to the Allies in May 1945 ended World War II, but Europe’s suffering is scarcely abated. Stefano, a scarred Italian ...Read Review
An Orphan’s Wish
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An Orphan’s Wish is the third book in this series set in World War II in Liverpool and around Bingham Hall, a ...Read Review
Duchess by Deception (Gilded Book 1)
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1902. Although he must marry by his fast-approaching thirtieth birthday or lose his title, Derek Eagan, the Duke of Westwood, finds the current crop ...Read Review
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Undead Client: Being Book One of the Unpublished Case Files of John H. Watson, M.D.
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Whitechapel, 1888. You know what’s coming next—but you don’t expect Sherlock Holmes to be involved. That’s the twist in this ...Read Review