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Jun.29.2012
Michelle Moran explored the French Revolution years in her popular MadamTussaud. Her new novel, The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon’s Court revives the next chapter in French history. The story opens in the year 1809 and covers the latter part of Emperor Napoleon’s reign.
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May.10.2012
After your man goes off to war, how do you pick up the pieces and go ahead with your life? Babe, Grace, and Millie were childhood friends. Next to Love explores their sometimes rocky relationships as adults during World War II and the following twenty years.
Babe may come from the...
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Apr.29.2012
What chilling mysteries lurk in the streets of Victorian England? The Solitary House is a historical suspense novel based on detective procedure and written to celebrate Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. In 1850, Charles Maddox, dismissed from Scotland Yard for insubordination, is hired by...
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Apr.17.2012
While the world braces for computer chaos on the eve before Y2K, Faith Bass Darling has a different priority. She is the sole occupant of the family mansion in Bass, Texas. On December 31, 1999 she decides she will die the next day. To prepare, seventy-year-old Faith dons her best white...
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Feb.25.2012
Why write a Titanic story that is not really about the Titanic? Because what happens to the survivors may makes for more interesting reading. Author Kate Alcott debuts in The Dressmaker, an original historical fiction novel. Told from an unconventional angle, the book focuses on a handful of...
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Feb.12.2012
An open and shut case. That’s what the prosecutor said. She murdered the infant and she will hang. Infant murder trials, quite prevalent in seventeenth century England, were akin to the witch-hunts in colonial America.
The remarkable story of Rachel Lockyer, unmarried glove maker ,and her...
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Jan.28.2012
The Snow Child, debut novel by Eowyn Ivey, transports us to 1920s Alaska. An older couple seeks a new life homesteading in the wilderness. When a magical child appears, their lives are transformed.
Does anyone really belong to you? If you think of children or spouses in this regard, The Snow...
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