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Title: Letters from an Age of Reason Author: Nora Hague Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: October 15, 2002 Pages: 656 An eloquent debut novel set amid two historical hotbeds of racial tension, moral hypocrisy, and shifting sexual convention Miss Arabella Leeds, the high-spirited teenage daughter of a prominent New York family, and Aubrey “Brie” Paxton, the “high yellow” pampered house servant of
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Title: Fall On Your Knees Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald Genre: Fiction Publisher: Touchstone Release Date: January 24, 2002 Pages: 512 Following the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall on Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battlefields of World War I, to the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and into the lives
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Title: The Winds of War Author: Herman Wouk Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Back Bay Books Release Date: February 5, 2002 Pages: 896 Follows the various members of the Henry family as they become involved in the events preceding America’s involvement in World War II and captures all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War-and that constitute Wouk’s crowning achievement-are available for
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Book #36 was The Mummy Case , the 3rd book in Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody series. This is me trying to fill in the holes in this series. I had picked up the next book in the series that I owned, and realized that too much had happened that I wasn’t aware of. So, I’m actually visiting the library. Will wonders ever cease? However, I
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