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Leap Beyond Blue Sky Veil
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In Leap Beyond Blue Sky Veil, Sally Eccleston has created a highly readable, enjoyable novel that weaves the true story of an 1865 massacre of twenty-three Paiutes, mostly women and children, by a misled U.S. Cavalry with the modern day... |
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Lebensborn
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This book was really two parts of the same whole: first, the Nazi occupation of a small French village; second, the program where high ranking German men procreate and the facility in which "fit" women give birth to the "master... |
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Leviathan's Master: The Wreck of the World's Largest Sailing Ship
 | David Quinn has developed an historical accounting that grabs the reader and relates history while also conveying the human emotional elements that surely accompanied the actual event. The story details the doomed voyage of the seven-masted sailing ship The Thomas W. Lawson on its maiden... |
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Lost Treasure of the Fourth Reich
 | "The Lost Treasure of the Fourth Reich" by Barrett J Clisby describes itself as ‘an historically based suspense novel’. But what exactly does that mean? It means the author has used historical events as a base from which to weave a fictional, highly imaginative and... |
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Nero's Concert
 | The setting is Rome, during Nero’s reign. The narrator is Rusticus. He was once a great gladiator that saved Nero’s life during a chariot race. He worked his way up to one of the top ministers in the imperial court. He was in love with... |
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Now My Life Begins
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Shirley Roe quickly became one of my favorite authors when I read her previous novels: A Whitaker Family Reunion, Return To Whittaker, and Of Dreams and Nightmares...the latter being my favorite. I was excited to see she has a... |
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On Falcon's Wings
 | I always love to read historical books and this one, set around the Battle of Hastings, sounded really good. While the historical content of the book did not disappoint me, I was disappointed in the sexual content generously included in this book. I feel that... |
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Promised Valley Rebellion
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What would you do if you were in love with your childhood sweetheart, but had always been told that marriage between you two was forbidden? That's just what happens in Promised Valley Rebellion by Ron Fritsch.
Rose Leaf and Morning... |
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Selective Discretion
 | "Selective Discretion" by Mary F. Twitty is a fictional novel based on an actual happening from the year 1847-1848. The basic facts are true but most of the records were destroyed during the civil war. When Carrie Matthews was born on the plantation, her father... |
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Shall Never See So Much
 | "Shall Never See So Much" is the story of siblings a world apart. The siblings were estranged. Their lives were very different, as was their political philosophies. The setting is 1968. The US was at war in Vietnam. The times were turbulent. First Lieutenant Tom... |
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