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Bound
Click Here To Purchase Bound: A Novel Author: Sally GunningISBN-10: 0061240257 ISBN-13: 978-0061240256 Publisher: William Morrow Sally Gunning's latest historical fiction, Bound is
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10-24-2008
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Boxcar Down
Click Here To Purchase Boxcar Down Author: Charles L. LunsfordPublisher: BookSurgeISBN: 1-4196-1713-3
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8-17-2008
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September Dawn
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon September DawnAuthor: Carole Whang SchutterISBN: 9781434300225 Publisher- Authorhouse After reading the book September Dawn, by Carole Whang Schutter I find myself mystified and horrified by the events
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3-6-2008
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Shadow of an Indian Star
Authors: Bill Paul: Cindy PaulISBN: 097559222XThe following review was contributed by: Molly Martin: CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's Reviews
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11-27-2005
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A Break In The Storm
Author: Arnold SimonISBN: 0974931217Publisher: Noldan PublishingThe following review was submitted by Greg Lewis.Arnold Simon’s novel A Break In The Storm spans the years between the first and second world wars, two decades in which German anger and resentment of the Versailles treaty fomented and grew.In that ambitious historical sweep the characters somehow represent the ‘unfinished business’ of the awful trench warfare of the first war and the mistakes made by those who drew up the peace...
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10-7-2005
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A FATAL WALTZ
Click Here To Purchase A FATAL WALTZ Author: Tasha AlexanderPublisher: Harper CollinsISBN: 978-0-06-117422-3
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7-9-2008
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A Perfect Red
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon A Perfect Red Author: Amy Butler GreenfieldPublisher: Harper PerennialISBN-13: 978-0-06-052276-6ISBN-10: 0-06-052276-3The story of the search for the ultimate red dye, A Perfect Red contains the stuff of Hollywood: swashbuckling pirates, adventuresome explorers a la Indiana Jones, and royal bureaucrats intent on conquest and glory. If only history textbooks were written as Amy Butler Greenfield has crafted this story!Ms. Greenfield has managed to take an...
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9-4-2007
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An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson
Author: James GablerISBN: 0-9613525-6-6The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereOne does not have to wish or dream an evening encounter with two of the most famous men
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3-27-2006
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Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
The following review was contributed by: JOHN WALSH To read an interview with John Shors click HERE Beneath a Marble Sky is a splendid historical novel about the creation of the Taj Mahal and the trials and tribulations of the imperial family responsible for it. Set against the exotic background of C17thn Hindustan, the action resolves itself in an empire split by ethnic and religious divisions between Muslims and Hindus. After the death of the beloved mother who inspired the memorial and...
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10-11-2004
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Bucket of Blood, The Ragman’s War
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Bucket of Blood, The Ragman’s WarAuthor: R.S. SukleISBN: O59530155X In the western Pennsylvanian coalfields in the years following the First World War, immigrants from central and eastern Europe are allotted to separate quarters to ensure lack of communication. Starvation wages are offered to the miners and their families are obliged to live in the company town, where all expenditure returns to the company. Unions are banned and health and safety a very low...
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11-23-2004
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Chasing Elvis
Author: Glenn MarcelPublisher: Invisible College Press (November 30, 2004) ISBN: 1931468206 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Murray Somerset: Click Here To Read Jennifer's ReviewsChasing Elvis by Glenn Marcel is another in growing subgenera that I like tocall Elvis Lit – historical fiction that centers on the King of Rock and Roll, ElvisPresley. This makes about the third book that I have personally read from thisnew subgenera. Even though I found it to be one long string...
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11-29-2005
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Chasing the Wind
Author: Helena P. SchraderISBN: 978059444717 Although many of the characters portrayed in Helena Schrader’s Chasing the Wind are fictional, the facts of her story are based on actual events that occurred during the Battle of Britain in 1940 between Britain’s Royal Air Force and German’s Luftwaffe. As a result, Schrader has made an important contribution to our understanding of the mind-sets and skills of the British and German pilots during these harrowing battles.As Schrader mentions in her...
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6-23-2007
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City of Refuge
Click Here To Purchase City of Refuge Author: Tom PiazzaPublisher: HarperISBN: 978-0-06-123861-1“City of Refuge“ is likely to become a classic of the future, and that statement is one powerful endorsement of the strength and scope of this novel. Its narrative voice is on a par with Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath,” which documented the Great Depression. In this case, author Tom Piazza (a music writer of note) has crafted the definitive tale of the destruction and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
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8-24-2008
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City of the Dead
Click Here To Purchase City of the Dead Author: T. L. HIGLEYISBN: 3:978-0-8054-4731-6 Story teller par excellence, T.L. HIGLEY transports the reader into the revived world of Ancient Egypt within the City of the Dead.
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9-6-2008
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Eagles Over Berlin
Author:Kati Fabian ISBN: 1411627229The following review was contributed by: Greg Lewis.The Berlin Airlift was an astonishing chapter in history, which grew out of a jostle for power at the end of World War II. The Cold War, in effect, started before the end of the conflict with Nazi Germany. The Allies had long been considering how to carve Europe up.In October 1944, for instance, Winston Churchill wrote a plan on a scrap of paper which gave 90 per cent of Romania, half of Yugoslavia, half...
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10-23-2005
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Evensong
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Evensong Author: M.L. St. Sure ISBN: 978-1-4196-8106-6M.L. St. Sure has created a haunting melody in the new novel Evensong, as it takes its readers back in time to the terrifying era when Hitler and his cruel army threatened to change the world forever.Veteran Joseph Cross is simply trying to make a life for his family in the unforgiving farm land of Missouri. Wanting more for his children than he could provide, he trains his daughter Christina to sing the...
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11-20-2007
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Fish of Souls
Author: Gary WilliamsPublisher: Infinity Publishing.comISBN: 9780741411440 The following review was contributed by; Evelyn Sears
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5-15-2006
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Hitler’s Judas: A Tale of Self Interest and Intrigue in the Third Reich
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Hitler’s Judas: A Tale of Self Interest and Intrigue in the Third ReichAuthor: Tom LewisISBN: 10: 0970579365: 13:978-0970579362 After reading Hitler’s Judas I really had to wonder whether Tom Lewis missed his true calling. Maybe Tom should have been penning his stories thirty-eight years prior instead of conducting orchestras around Europe and the United States. But then again, it also just may be that his experience in nearly four decades of conducting...
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2-27-2008
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Illuminated
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Illuminated Author: Matt BronleewePublisher: Thomas NelsonISBN: 10: 1-59554-249-3; 13: 978-1-59554-249-6 In 1997, Time-Life magazine declared Johannes Gutenberg’s 15th-century printing press as the invention of the millennium. Two years later, the Arts & Entertainment network proclaimed Gutenberg the man of the millennium. The story of Gutenberg and his printing press is so significant that it’s rather perplexing that relatively few authors have mined...
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10-9-2007
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Innocent Traitor
Author: Alison WeirISBN: 978-0-345-49485-6Publisher: Ballantine BooksIt’s a match made in Heaven—a story by my favorite authors about one of my favorite historical characters. Alison Weir is one of our best contemporary historians specializing in sixteenth century England. Her nonfiction books on Henry VIII, Mary Tudor, Queen of Scots, and many others are always best-sellers. Now, Weir has published her first work of fiction, Innocent Traitor—the story of the nine-day queen, Lady Jane Grey....
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4-29-2007
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Lady of the Roses: A Novel of the War of the Roses
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Lady of the Roses: A Novel of the War of the RosesAuthor: Sandra WorthPublisher: Berkley BooksISBN: 978-0-425-21914-0 Set amidst the War of the R
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2-6-2008
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Let Me Go
Author: Helga SchneiderISBN 0-8027-1435-8The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereHelga is just four years old and her mother's suitcase is ready at the front door. Helga's younger brother, Peter, is sleeping as their mother slips through the door -- Helga will be a mother herself when she sees Mutti (German for 'mother') again.
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4-18-2006
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Loss of Innocence: A Novel of the French Revolution
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Loss of Innocence: A Novel of the French Revolution Author: Anne Newton WaltherISBN: 978-0967670348Publisher: Tapestries Publishing French countess Eugenie Devereaux shares a unique and seldom-seen perspective of the French Revolution. She’s young, beautiful, rich, and supports the revolution. Her network of informants and spies, which includes even the real and famous General Lafayette, is extensive. Through her eyes, we watch French society change forever....
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10-23-2007
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Loving Soren
Author: Caroline Coleman O’NeillPublisher: Bradman and Holman Publishers, 2005.ISBN: 080543089-XThe following review was contributeed by: John Walsh & CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's Reviews
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7-5-2005
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Mountain Shadows
Author: Patricia Reiss BrooksPublisher: Mt Kisco, NY: Pinto Press ISBN: 0-9755677-0-5The following review was contributed by: John Walsh & CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's Reviews
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4-18-2005
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Napoleon’s Pyramids
Author: William DietrichPublisher: HarperCollinsISBN: 978-0-06-084832-3For Ethan Gage, an American adventurer living in Paris, winning a gold medallion in a card game was not a turn of good luck. There are people who will go to great lengths, including murder, to wrest the medallion from him. Accused of a murder he did not commit, and needing to escape France as quickly as possible, Gage joins Napoleon’s campaign to conquer Egypt and gain French control of the trade routes to India. ...
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3-19-2007
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Author: Vanora BennetISBN: 978-0-06-125651-6I have not enjoyed a debut novel this much in a long time. Vanora Bennet has written a beautiful historical romance, a very personal story of actual events told from the viewpoint of a woman who was there, and who was profoundly affected by them.Meg Giggs is a ward of Sir Thomas More, brought up in his household as one of his daughters. Unlike many of his contemporaries, More is forward-thinking and he believes girls should be educated. He hires...
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4-4-2007
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
ISBN: 978-0-06-125651-6Author: Vanora BennettPublisher: MorrowPortrait of an Unknown Woman is a simple love story that uses the turmoil and tragedy of Henry VIII’s court to trip up its lovers, like so many others, but this one is different. Vanora Bennett weaves her charming love story around a real mystery: the fate of Edward and Richard, the Plantagenet princes who disappeared as teenagers. History tells us that Richard III, their uncle, murdered them. After reading this story, you won’t...
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4-29-2007
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Secrets of the Holy Lance: The Spear of Destiny in History and Legend
Authors: Jerry E. Smith and George PiccardISBN: 1931882436This review was contributed by: John Walsh: CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsAmong the various occult items believed to have an arcane and wide-ranging impact upon human history, the Holy Lance or the Spear of Destiny has a particularly well-established reputation. Also known as the Spear of Longinus, the weapon is believed to have been wielded by the eponymous Roman legionary who stabbed Jesus in the side, thereby avoiding the...
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12-8-2005
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Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in VirginiaAuthor: Jessica James ISBN: 978-0-9796000-0-5 In a nation where Northerners and Southerners alike still occasionally need to be reminded “Do not re-fight the war,” it is apparent that echoes of a war fought nearly 150 years ago still lingers. It is rare, then, to look upon the war and see beyond the issues to the people, the flesh and blood, whose lives and loyalties were tested in a bitter and deadly...
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2-7-2008
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SILENT LIES
Author: M.L. MalcolmPublisher: Longstreet Press, Inc.ISBN: 1-56352-750-2 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown & Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsBy all accounts, Leo Hoffman should have been a beggar.
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6-18-2005
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Silent Lies
Author: M.L. MalcolmISBN: 1-56352-750-2The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"Silent Lies" is a historical novel that decidedly deserves the occasionally overused term, "sweeping" and the book's fascinating settings have much to do with this. Placed in the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century and set initially in Hungary - a country not often associated with world war novels - the story is a...
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12-31-2005
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Snow Angel
Click Here To Purchase Snow Angel Author: Jamie CarieISBN: 9780805445336Publisher: B&H Publishing Group To summarize Snow Angel
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4-12-2008
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Speak Right On: Dred Scott
Aurhor: Mary E. NeighbourISBN: 159264144The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereIf there ever was a book that explained what it was like to be torn from your birth land, shipped as if you were a piece of lumber and dropped into an unknown world, Mary Neighbour's novel is at the top of the reading list.
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3-27-2006
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Author: John BoyneISBN: 0-385-75106-0 John Boyne’s first novel for young readers, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is agripping tale that will without doubt linger in your memory for a long timeafter you read the last line.Set during the time of the holocaust, it is the story of Bruno, a cheerfulGerman nine year old young boy living
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12-7-2006
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The Boys of Chattanooga
Author: Clyde R. HedgesPublisher: Gate Way PublishersISBN: 0-9635703-3-1 The following review was contributed by: Evelyn Sears Click here to read more of Evelyn's Review
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8-15-2006
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The Cracks in the Pavement
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Cracks In The Pavement Author: Elizabeth McDougallISBN: 1-4196-3479-8Publishers: BookSurge LLCHistorical novels often lend themselves to dreary descriptions of things from the past interrupted by brief character action; Elizabeth McDougall’s novel is something else entirely. Although it encompasses a time period covering both World War II and the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, this beautifully written novel is a study in characters so lifelike, readers will...
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10-22-2007
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The Lambing Flat by Nerida Newton
The following review was contributed by: Warren Thurston (No longer active as reviewer)The Lambing Flat is a tale of the clash between two different cultures. Set in the Australian outback of New South Wales in 1861, it depicts the depths men will sink to in the quenching of their greed. Life on the gold fields of this period was dirty and dangerous. White Australian Miners saw it as their right to plunder the earth of its gold. It was a right they did not like sharing with one other ethnic...
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10-11-2004
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The Lost Fleet
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Lost FleetAuthor: Marc SonginiISBN: 13: 978-0-812-28648-4Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Lost Fleet
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3-3-2008
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The Rose of York: Fall from Grace
Author: Sandra WorthPublisher: End Table BooksISBN: 9780975126493"Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York."Richard III, I.1.1-2 For all the disservice done to Richard III by Shakespeare, his opening lines of Richard III could do no more to accurately divine the shift in thought that Sandra Worth's trilogy seeks to influence about the last Plantagenet king of England. In "The Rose of York" trilogy (Love and War, Crown of D
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4-18-2007
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The Sassamon Circle
Click Here To Purchase The Sassamon Circle Author: Louis GarafaloPublisher: Outskirts PressISBN: 978-1-4327-2066-7
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7-14-2008
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The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II
Author: Susan HigginbothamPublished by iUniverseISBN: 0-595-35959-0The following review was contributed by Mary Simmons: Click Here To Read Mary's ReviewsIn 'The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II' author SusanHigginbotham follows the life of Eleanor de Clare from the time she marriesHugh le Despenser in 1306 to her death in 1337. The years in between are full ofchallenges, which the title character rises to admirably. She is portrayed as aloyal, passionate woman who loves her...
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8-30-2006
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The Weight of Smoke
Author: George Robert MinkoffPublisher: McPherson & Co.ISBN: 0929701801Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon The Weight of Smoke is the first in a trilogy of novels by George Robert Minkoff which fictionalize Captain John Smith’s action-packed and (possibly) self-aggrandizing memoir of life on the high seas – and practically everywhere else. “Weight of Smoke” deals primarily with Smith’s experiences at the founding of Jamestown, although the narrative contains many flashbacks...
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7-27-2007
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Through a Glass Darkly
Author: Karleen KoenISBN: 1402200447Barbara Aderly lives a near idyllic life in the 18th century. She is the willful, and much doted upon, granddaughter of a strong aristocratic woman, surrounded by a gaggle of beloved younger brothers and sisters, with free run of the English countryside. But as reaches her teen years the world she has always known is being taken away from her. With a surprise visit from her black sheep mother Barbara learns her marriage has been arranged to a much older man...
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1-16-2007
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Traces: Birth of Alexander the Great
Author: Faye TurnerISBN: 0976250039The following review was contributed by: John Walsh: CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsIn the world of the ancient Mediterranean, the trader and doctor Daneion travels different lands in search of food for the starving people of Athens and in search of his own dynasty. A confidant of Queen Olympias of Macedonia and, briefly, her lover, it is possible that he may have fathered the child that she is to bear. That child will of course be Alexander, who in turn...
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9-7-2006
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Traces: Birth of Alexander the Great
Author: Faye TurnerISBN: 0976250039The wife of Philip of Macedonia is pregnant with a child whose birth, as a son, will let Philip continue to rule his land. A secret web of conspirators is on its move against the destined scene of a great leader’s birth and the one person who can save the true prince is someone who can question the paternity of the coming child. After Brown’s Da Vinci Code, Faye Turner takes her turn of reinventing history through her latest historical novel Traces: Birth of...
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12-16-2006
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