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Review: Unfinished, The Inspired Life of Elisabetta Sirani by Kelly Evans

February 15, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Blurb They called her La Maestra. Elisabetta Sirani was a talented and prolific artist in Seventeenth Century Italy. Trained by…

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Review: John Brown’s Women: A Novel by Susan Higginbotham

February 9, 2022 admin 1 Comment

As the United States wrestles with its besetting sin—slavery—abolitionist John Brown is growing tired of talk. He takes actions that…

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Review: Blood Eye by Giles Kristian

February 4, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Blurb For two years Osric has lived a simple life, apprenticed to the mute old carpenter who took him in…

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Review: Gods of Rome by Doherty and Turney

January 29, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Blurb 312 AD is a year of horrific and brutal warfare. Constantine’s northern army is a small force, plagued by…

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Review: Too Soon the Night: A novel of Empress Theodora by James Conroyd Martin

January 15, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Blurb Palace eunuch and secretary Stephen records Empress Theodora’s life as she navigates wars, political and religious crises, a citywide…

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Review: Coco at the Ritz by Gioia Diliberto

December 27, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Blurb A riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II. Though…

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Review: The Lions and the Wolf by Garrett Pearson

December 23, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Blurb In 219 BC the war clouds gather as Hannibal sacks the Spanish city of Saguntum. Rome, egocentric, belligerent and…

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Review: The Conversos by V.E.H. Masters

December 19, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Blurb Europe 1547. The rising tide of the Reformation threatens bloody revolution. And the terror of the Inquisition grows, even…

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Review: The Castilian Pomegranate by Anna Belfrage

December 3, 2021 admin 2 Comments

An enraged and grieving queen commands them to retrieve her exquisite jewel and abandon their foundling brat overseas—or never return.…

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Review: Elizabeth I by Margaret George

November 21, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Blurb England’s greatest monarch has baffled and intrigued the world for centuries. But what was the Virgin Queen really like?…

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