"The Tudor Conspiracy" by C. W. Gortner~Master of Historical Fiction!

SUMMARY :Hunted by a shadowy foe in Bloody Mary’s court, Brendan Prescott plunges into London’s treacherous underworld to unravel a dark conspiracy that could make Elizabeth queen—or send her to her death in C.W. Gortner's The Tudor ConspiracyEngland, 1553: Harsh winter encroaches upon the realm. Mary Tudor has become queen to popular acclaim and her enemies are imprisoned in the Tower. But when she’s betrothed to Philip, Catholic prince of Spain,...

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"The Orphanmaster" by Jean Zimmerman~Delicious Writing!

SUMMARY :A love story wrapped around a murder mystery, set in seventeenth-century Manhattan In 1663 in the hardscrabble colony of New Amsterdam—today’s lower Manhattan—orphan children are going missing and residents suspect a serial killer. The list of possible culprits is long and strange. Among those looking into the mystery are a shrewd young Dutch woman, Blandine van Couvering, and a dashing Englishman, Edward Drummond, whose newfound romance...

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"The Age of Desire" by Jennie Fields~Interview w/ Author!

    BOTH BEAUTIFUL COVERS OF THIS BOOK....  SUMMARY : For fans of The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship They say that behind every great man is a great woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann—her governess turned literary secretary and confidante. At the age of forty-five, despite her growing fame,...

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"Somerset" by Leila Meacham~Gorgeous Historical Saga

 SUMMARY: One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the "black waxy" promise of a new territory called Texas. Slavery, westward expansion, abolition, the Civil War, love, marriage, friendship, tragedy and triumph-all...

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"Queen's Gambit" by Elizabeth Fremantle~Interview w/ Author!

SUMMARY :Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. However, obliged to return to court, she attracts the attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII, who dispatches his love rival, Seymour, to the Continent. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by the fates of his previous wives—two...

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Book Haul Diggin' in the Gold!!

Yikes!! What a miserable picture of some pretty awesome books.  I had a wonderful couple of weeks of mail deliveries, and some tramping around finding books....not that I needed any more, but you know "I Have A Book Problem," so I went searching.   The results are what follows.  I wish my camera was working better because the book covers are just outstanding in this group.  However, onward and so on....This first book is...

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