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Apr.08.2013
Look no further than Palisades Park by Alan Brennert for a magical place to spend happy hours of reading. Eddie and Adele Stopka, parents of Toni and Jack, sell vinegar-soaked French fries near the thunder of the Cyclone roller coaster. Toni is enthralled with the divers who do daredevil stunts in...
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Feb.03.2013
Schroder: A Novel is both heartrending and magnificent. The book is a discerning reflection on fatherhood with contemporary issues that will appeal to men and women alike. Eric Kennedy narrates his confession to his estranged wife, explaining the circumstances of kidnapping their...
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Jan.22.2013
Emma Smallwood and her father leave their Longstaple failing boarding school academy for cliff top Ebbington Manor on the Cornwall Coast where Mr. Smallwood is to tutor young male twins. After an awkward reception as if they were not expected, they are housed in the north wing with warnings not...
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Dec.19.2012
Enchanting and Heart Wrenching
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan is now available in Canada and will be released January 10, 2013 in the United States. The tone of the book is set well by this quote from a French daily newspaper that introduces us to the first chapter—“No social...
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Dec.10.2012
This is a short memoir about an expansive life and a woman’s amazing spirit. Linda Christianson was diagnosed with polio in 1948 when she was six months old. Many readers may be too young to remember this highly contagious disease that paralyzed many children until a vaccine became available...
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Nov.26.2012
Formerly released in England to rave reviews, The Gilded Lily is finally available in the US. Greed, adventure, danger, mystery, and history combine for a memorable, absorbing read.
You will be hooked by this masterfully told story by the middle of chapter one. Sisters Ella and Sadie Appleby...
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Sep.27.2012
This biography of Barbra Streisand is a timely release, marking her fiftieth anniversary in show business. While the singer/actress giant is still actively performing (sold out for her tour at age seventy), Hello Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand covers only the first four years of...
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Jul.08.2012
William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins releases A Simple Thing by Kathleen McCleary on July 24, 2012. The novel examines the extreme measures two women take to protect their children.
Hopes nearly dashed by her daughter’s online scandal and suspension from school, Susannah Delaney...
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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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Mar.16.2012
A French perfumer is commissioned in the 1800s to recreate a scent formula from Cleopatra’s fragrance factory. It is believed that those who smell the euphoric scent find a portal to past lives. The Book of Lost Fragrances: A Novel of Suspense—part thriller, part ancient history, and part...
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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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Holly Weiss knows how to paint with words.”
—Dorothy Deimel
About Holly
Author of Crestmont, award-winning historical fiction novel set in the 1920s. Holly Weiss is a vocal instructor, retired professional singer and a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. A polio survivor, she is a cutting-edge reviewer of...
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