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When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d’Angelo is found inside, dressed in bondage gear. Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by her loss. Now he must take a dark voyage through the . . .
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An exploration of moments in history through the eyes of someone who was there. Cutler Phiney visits people involved in singular events, and gives us some insight into the people and their situation. He is an extraordinary figure of history, but not in history. While he has been involved in many important events, he is not recorded in a . . .
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“Sentence of Marriage” is the first book in the three-volume “Promises to Keep”. The entire work covers twenty-five years; this first volume takes Amy from the ages of twelve to sixteen. Amy is a bright and imaginative girl who dreams of an exciting life in the world beyond the farming valley where she lives. But in nineteenth century New . . .
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When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d’Angelo is found inside, dressed in bondage gear. Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by her loss. Now he must take a dark voyage through the . . .
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The Sengoku Jidai was an age of nearly constant warfare in Japanese history, clans struggled endlessly against other clans and today’s ally might be tomorrow’s enemy. The proud Inuyama clan, once driven nearly to the brink of extinction by their hated rivals the Kurokawa clan, have finally grown in strength enough to face their enemies in a battle for their . . .
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In 1698, young Isabel Warring is accussed of witchcraft. Isabel is an innocent. Will the person who betrayed her come forward? . . .
This is a 148,000 word historical fiction and geographic drama. It is set in Salina, Kansas, and Monterey and Pebble Beach, California. The story runs through the years 1891-1996. It is an adult novel. The story is both coming of age and adult soul-searching. Several vignettes break up the novel. A third person narration is supplied as the memories . . .
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Maia and her step-brother Cilo were raised in an opulent villa in the Seine Valley, by their vile step-mother. Cilo enlisted in the army in Britannia at fifteen. Lucius, Luc, is commander of an auxiliary cavalry unit of Legio XX, Valeria Victrix. The son of a Caledonian mercenary who joined Rome, he and his four brothers are renowned . . .
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By AD83 the Romans in Caledonia held a line of glen-blocking forts, (now known as the Gask Ridge forts, from Glasgow to Perth) and the three active legions, XXth, IXth and IInd, were split along this defensive line. Calgacus was one of a number of first century Pictish barons; part of a landed class in northern Celt society with . . .
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Divination from the spirit world. Con artistry. Cats and mirrors. The implications of Freudian psychology. Death. Life. Birth. Murder. And ice cream. . . . Charlotte Rowe has been cast in the role of medium from childhood, and studied under a clever fraud. But does Charlotte have a real vision into the spirit world? . . .
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First century Spain was divided into three provinces: Lusitania and Baetica in the south, and Tarraconensis in the north. While the southern and central areas were quickly Romanized, the northern areas, up into the Pyrenees, maintained a ‘seething’ peace. The Celtiberian tribes maintained their heritage of warrior elites, and their hatred of Rome. They accepted the comforts, infrastructure and . . .
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Iron is a web serial written by Mario J. Lucero. It’s about an ex-buffalo soldier turned treasure hunter. The story is told in serial format. . . .
The moon launch. The Challenger disaster. The Lewinsky scandal. And global warming. Someone’s behind it all, and it’s not for anything as mundane as corporate profits or political power. Join Jack Crowley and Jim Patterson as they race to stop the conspiracy before it’s too late. And maybe, just maybe, save the world. . . .
There is nothing wrong with Absent Friend, but it is not good or even bad enough to be good. It’s simply okay. I’ve read eight chapters and midway through chapter 9 I decided that I couldn’t read anymore.
The pacing seems off, to me. The author introduces Mike who, I presume, [more . . .]
Andy Fanton is barking mad. That’s the first thing you need to know about "The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely."
The second thing you need to know is that he has a mastery of the pseudo-Victorian that, as a pseudo-Victorian myself, I envy intensely. (I’m not kidding, Andy has the tone [more . . .]