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Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Stamford Slaying by Andrew McAuley
The Stamford Slaying
By Andrew McAuley
Publication Date: 25th March 2022
Publisher: Yorkie-Montague
Page Length: 245 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Devon, AD 1402. Wool merchant Robert Wood is not well-liked. He is boastful, gruff, and takes offence as easily as he gives it, but he adores his pious younger wife and constantly seeks social advancement to please her. Robert attempts to bribe the notorio Read more of this blog post »
By Andrew McAuley
Publication Date: 25th March 2022
Publisher: Yorkie-Montague
Page Length: 245 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Devon, AD 1402. Wool merchant Robert Wood is not well-liked. He is boastful, gruff, and takes offence as easily as he gives it, but he adores his pious younger wife and constantly seeks social advancement to please her. Robert attempts to bribe the notorio Read more of this blog post »
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| Tonya Ulynn Brown’s “What the Ocean Brings” is an emotionally absorbing work of historical fiction set against the devastating backdrop of the Irish Famine migration to Canada in 1847. Inspired by the wreck of the Carricks off the coast of Gaspé, the ...more | |
"There’s a moment in Escape of the Grand Duchess where you suddenly stop thinking of the Romanovs as “history” and start thinking of them simply as a family watching the world fall apart around them. That’s what this book does so brilliantly. It strip"
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| Some stories are remembered for their rulers; others endure because of those who lived in their shadow. Anna Belfrage’s “Queen of Shadows” presents a richly layered work of historical fiction that moves beyond the familiar narrative of royal power to ...more | |
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| “A Heart That’s True” by Mark Guillerman is one of the more emotionally sincere and historically thoughtful works of historical fiction I’ve read dealing with the American Indian boarding school era. What initially appears to be a relatively straight ...more | |
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"I really loved Escape of the Grand Duchess by Susan Appleyard. What surprised me most was how quickly I became emotionally invested in Olga. She never feels like some untouchable royal figure from history. Most of the time she just feels like a woman"
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| I found "The Conspirator: Power, Intrigue, and Hidden War in Renaissance Italy" much more intellectually ambitious than I initially expected. What starts out looking like a fairly traditional Renaissance political novel gradually becomes something fa ...more | |
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| The men of the past stand proudly in the history books, their achievements and losses documented and their stories told. But what of the women? Are they to be lost to history forever, simply because their stories remained unwritten? Enheduanna is det ...more | |
“It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.”
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― The Du Lac Chronicles
“Always stay true to yourself. Write with how you feel and are most comfortable with, not what the trends dictate.”
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