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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 [...]
A Geography of Secrets, by Frederick Reuss is a thought-provoking novel exploring a world that most of us know is in existence, but to which we give little thought. An unnamed narrator, a mapmaker whose father worked in foreign service. A careless comment heard at his father’s funeral leads him on a search for clues [...]
When a plane lands at JFK with all the crew and passengers apparently dead but with no indications as to what could be the cause, the CDC is mystified. Nervous government officials would like to pretend that all is okay, but Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, head of the biological threat team, knows that something is terribly [...]
Vera and her brother, Will, live in the Republic of Illinowa – what is left of what was once the midwestern United States. The country has been dissolved into six self governing republics with strict borders. Food is quasi-real, of questionable quality, and expensive, while money and employment are hard to come by. Water is [...]
Jay Cassio and Dan Del Colliano have been friends since they were six years old. Sticking together through family upheaval and hardships, each was always a presence in the other’s life. They even occasionally worked together; Dan as a private investigator and Jay as an attorney with his own small practice. When the wife of [...]
Farhad is a student living in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1979. Out drinking one night with a friend, he misses curfew and receives a brutal beating from soldiers just as he is approaching home. Farhad is discovered in the street and taken in to recover by a Good Samaritan, and while resting in her home, he [...]
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 [...]
Kiley is seriously down on her luck as Thanksgiving approaches. Her boyfriend decides that he is in love and proceeds to dump her at Halloween to start a relationship with her younger sister, and she is lately unemployed. On an excursion with friends designed to provide some cheer, she spots a snow globe whose history [...]
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 [...]
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