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I’m usually not one for spoilers but be warned, I don’t really hold anything back here. If you haven’t read Jane Eyre, you might want to stop here. Orphaned and packed off to a charitable educational institution by an indifferent relative and benefactress, Jane Eyre has rarely experienced feelings of belonging or having the comfort [...]
Anne Neville is the younger daughter of the Earl of Warwick, the kingmaker responsible for putting English King Edward IV on the throne. Always knowing that she would marry to form an alliance and as her father decreed, she is nonetheless pleased to be betrothed to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a favored cousin with whom [...]
Elizabeth Fitzgerald, nicknamed Gera, is the daughter of the ninth Earl of Kildaire, one of the powerful Irish nobles of 16th century and so called uncrowned Kings of Ireland. Her parent’s marriage is a loving one and she has grown up coddled among her siblings in the Irish countryside. All of that comes to an [...]
Though I have been hearing folks rave about Jennifer Donnelly the past six months or more, this is not the first time that I have heard of her. I came close to reading her young adult novel A Northern Light, based on the real life tragedy of Grace Brown and Chester Gillette. I would still [...]
Antoinette Cosway has taken some hard knocks in life. Her father is dead and she lives on a deteriorating plantation with a mother who is most likely suffering from severe depression and just a few remaining servants, one of whom may be be a voodoo priestess. Mother and child are despised on the island, and [...]
Martha Allen has fewer comforts than most in the harsh wilds of colonial Massachusetts. A plain face and prickly personality has kept her unmarried, and as a result she is hired out as a servant to earn her keep among neighboring families by her strict father. While working in her cousin’s chaotic household, Martha, who [...]
In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and trustworthy partner, Dr. Watson, investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the moors of his estate in Devon. When the footprints of a giant hound are discovered near the body, locals suspect that it is the work of a family curse that had also [...]
Harold White has just been inducted into The Baker Street Irregulars, and is the youngest member in the exclusive club’s history. Giddy over the honor, Harold barely has a chance to enjoy the trappings of his new society when Alex Cale, world renowned Sherlock Holmes scholar (and fellow Irregular), is murdered. Cale had been lately [...]
Orphaned at a young age and possessing a troubled history of otherworldly visitations, sleepwalking and dubious Irish heritage, Mina Murray has risen to become a respected governess, engaged to an up and coming solicitor, Jonathan Harker. She expects to love this one man for the rest of her life and anticipates raising a family with [...]
Anyone who has glimpsed A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book, by Charles Fischer & Bruce Foster knows that it is a delight. I was on my way out when this package arrived, so I took the box with me to meet a friend at Starbucks, and I had barely gotten it out of the box [...]
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