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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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A Plethora of Phantoms (Spirited Encounters):
"Freddie goes back to Lanyon Park not really expecting anything to be different. If anything, it feels like he’s just slipping back into something that was already decided for him. It doesn’t feel like a choice so much as something he has to do, and t"
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A Plethora of Phantoms (Shades, Shadows, and Spectres #2):
"A Plethora of Phantoms is one of those books that doesn’t try too hard, but still ends up getting to you. It’s not super scary or dramatic—it just kind of sneaks up on you the longer you’re reading.
Lanyon Park feels normal at first, but then you star" Read more of this review » |
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A Plethora of Phantoms (Shades, Shadows, and Spectres #2):
"Strange things are happening at Lanyon Park. Could it be a ghost?
I thought this book was utterly wonderful. The story is told from the perspective of Freddie Lanyon who has come home to help his father run the estate. But things are never simple at L" Read more of this review » |
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A Plethora of Phantoms (Shades, Shadows, and Spectres #2):
"I went into A Plethora of Phantoms expecting a story centred on a haunted house, something contained within its walls and tied neatly to its past. What I didn’t expect was how much the narrative would extend beyond that, or how naturally it would bal"
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[image] History is filled with stories of those who sought immortality, yet few pause to consider what one might do with such a gift if it were truly granted. In "The Immortal Rose Wyndham: The Beginning", B. Roman presents a sweeping historical fanta ...more |
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| There is something quietly compelling about a novel that attempts to balance the sweep of history with the intimacy of individual experience, and One Ordinary Man does so with a clear sense of purpose. Steve Vesce presents Harry Hopkins not as a dist ...more | |
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| Jonas had never felt more alive than when he was risking everything on a single throw of the dice. Fortune, he believed, was not granted—it was taken. When the sealed envelope passed into his hands that night in Geneva, he allowed himself to believe— ...more | |
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| There’s something quietly impressive about a novel that manages to feel both intimate and expansive—and “The Thunder and the Silence” achieves exactly that. Roland Van Damme presents the familiar figure of Benjamin Franklin not as a distant historica ...more | |
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| The world is cooling rapidly. Life in Téuta, as it has been for generations, is about to change, and survival depends on many different factors—belief, determination, and maintaining a firm grasp on humanity while moving through disaster and loss as ...more | |
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MIDNIGHT PATRIOTS (An Einstein-Chaplin Thriller) (EINSTEIN-CHAPLIN SERIES)
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| Midnight Patriots” by Paul Levine is a fast-paced historical thriller that blends fact and fiction. With Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin positioned at the centre of a story involving spies, assassins, and a high-stakes journey across America, the ...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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