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Blind Fate |
| By Laura Abbott - 6,284 Words |
| “For an ex-Confederate officer, life in post-Civil War Virginia takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of two strangers from the North.” |
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Esprit De Corps |
| By Trace Edward Zaber - 4,966 Words |
| “In an America on the brink of war, a nervous young Northern actress, about to make her stage debut, discovers more than professional support in the eyes of a Southern actor.” |
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Sondra |
| By Marcia Colpan - 2,458 Words |
| “Occasionally a small act of kindness has the power to change a life.” |
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Angel Of Death |
| The Road From Here To Where You Stay |
| By Thomas Kemp |
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Part 1 - 2,776 Words Part 2 - 7,726 Words Part 3 - 2,326 Words |
| “In the early 1960s, Thomas Camp, a young man from Cuyahoga, Ohio, joins the Marines and is stationed in Vietnam. Based upon a set of tests administered when he entered the Marines, he is designated for special service. Major events, including the assassinations of Presidents John Kennedy and Diem of Vietnam, lead to Thomas being designated to find those responsible. As mandated by presidential orders, he has had to keep this secret for more than 30 years. Now, Thomas tells how he became a marker, an assassin, for the U.S. Government.” |
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Cornerstone |
| By Anne Janette Johnson |
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Part 1 - 3,687 Words Part 2 - 7,089 Words Part 3 - 3,236 Words |
| “Set in the turbulent first decades of the fourteenth century, Cornerstone is the tale of how one violent knight finds the Holy Grail within himself. Three characters—the Templars Stephen St. Clair and Peter de Bologna, and a misfit young woman named Walker—all face torture and hardship at the hands of the Inquisition, but they also find aid from a secret brotherhood with a new and unorthodox agenda. Ranging in locale from the dungeons of Paris to the battlefield of Bannockburn, Cornerstone offers speculation on the nature of the alliance between the mysterious Knights Templar and the Freemasons who claim the Templar legacy today.” |
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Gypsy Flyer |
| By Debra Tash |
Part 1 - 3,391 Words |
| “Gypsy Flyer is a family saga of 120,000 words, spanning the jazz age, when passenger flight began, to the era of the Vietnam conflict. In the novel, Michael Ryan, born in a Chicago brothel, with a mother who turned him out at the age of eleven, is a barnstorming pilot. There is only one thing he craves—an untroubled home. Meeting Jake Stimpson, the prodigal son of a powerful family, he becomes a gypsy flyer—first by rum-running across the Mexican border, to later founding one of the country’s first airlines. But will Michael ever win that untroubled home?” |
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Isabeau |
| By Anne De Lisle
(Bantam Books, Transworld Publishers, Australia, 1998) Reviewed by Frances Grattan |
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The Lady and The Unicorn
(Editor’s note : Retitled The Maiden And The Unicorn for release in the United States.) |
| By Isolde Martyn
(Bantam Books, Transworld Publishers, Australia, 1998) Reviewed by Frances Grattan |
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Naming Names Part 3 |
| By Victoria Prescott |
| “So you’ve named your historical English characters only to discover you need a specific place for them to reside in their twelvth-, fifteenth-, or seventeenth-century world? Well, before you close your eyes and randomly place your finger on today’s map of Great Britian, or concoct a unique name for this newly-created village of yore, you had better do some research first....” |
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When A Spiffy Literary Vehicle |
| Turns Out To Be A Book Of Lemons |
| By Trace Edward Zaber |
| “Ravings from an Historical nitpicker.” |
