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Special Feature: The Lady Bornekova by Sara Turnquist

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02_The Lady BornekovaPublication Date: July 14, 2015 (tentative)
Publisher: Clean Reads (formerly Astraea Press)
Format: eBook

Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance

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The red-headed Karin is strong-willed and determined, something she inherited from her father. She tries to keep her true nature a secret to avoid being deemed a traitor by those loyal to the king. Karin and her father butt heads over her duty to her family and the Czech Crown. She is then sequestered to the Royal Viscount’s hunting lodge.

Not aware of everything that is happening, she becomes the target of an individual with murderous intent. Her heart soon becomes entangled though her father intends to wed her to another. The turmoil inside Karin deepens and reflects the turmoil of her homeland, on the brink of the Hussite Wars.

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Review: The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows

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It’s summer time in small town America.

In the panhandle of West Virginia, Layla is cut off by her wealthy family in the middle of the Great Depression.

She is forced to find a job with the Writers Project writing the history of Macedonia, a small town in West Virginia.

While working, she will board with the Romeyn family and where we will meet two other main characters:  Jottie and Willa.

Layla’s assignment is to write the official history of the town, she learns there are plenty of secrets in the town, not to mention plenty of colorful characters. She begins investigating the town and her inquiries force the Romeyn family, as well as the town, to face some painful memories.

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Review: The Oracle (The Sarah Weston Chronicles #3) by D. J. Niko

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Sarah Weston’s latest adventures and archaeological pursuits have taken her to Greece where she is working with her American colleague (and sometimes romantic interest) Daniel Madigan, cataloging artifacts from a near by dig.

In Delphi, there is a cult of neo-pagans who have painstakingly recreated ancient rituals to glorify the god Apollo and deliver oracles to seekers from around the world.

When some antiquities are stolen from a museum in Thebes, Sarah Daniel are drawn into a dark plot….someone is using the Delphian oracle as a smoke screen for an information exchange, which could result in devastating consequences.

Sarah and Daniel are in a race against time and their own personal demons to uncover clues left behind by the ancients. Their mission is to locate the original stone marked with a lost Pythagorean formula. But will they be able to set aside there personal issues and work together before it’s too late?

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Review: Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome #1) by Kate Quinn

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Thea has known nothing but pain for most of her life. Sold as a slave from Judea, the young Jewish girl now lives in Rome and works in the house of a cruel mistress, Lepida.

Lepida’s father is in charge of coordinating the gladiator games in Rome and often Lepida and Thea follow him to watch the carnage of the fighting pits.

While watching a fight, the crowd is captivated by a fighter known only as the Barbarian. Women throw themselves at him and yet he refuses them. When Lepida sends Thea with a note to the Barbarian, Thea and the fearsome fighter begin a tedious friendship which gradually turns to love.

When Lepida finds out, she is blind with jealousy…..what could Thea have that she doesn’t? So she sells Thea as a prostitute. What Lepida can’t know is that Thea will eventually capture the attention of the most powerful man in Rome…..the Emperor.

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Spotlight Feature: Essie’s Roses by Michelle Muriel

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02_Essie's Roses_CoverPublication Date: March 23, 2015
Publisher: Little Cabin Books LLC
Formats: eBook, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0990938301
Pages: 346

Genre: Historical Fiction

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Growing up in the Deep South during the years leading to the Civil War, two young girls find freedom on a hillside overlooking Westland, an Alabama plantation. Essie Mae, an intuitive, intelligent slave girl, and Evie Winthrop, the sheltered, imaginative dreamer and planter’s daughter, strike up a secret friendship that thrives amidst the shadows of abuse.

Told from the viewpoint of four women: Katherine Winthrop, kind mistress and unexpected heiress to her father’s small, cotton plantation; Delly, her sassy and beloved house slave; Essie Mae, her slave girl; and Evie Winthrop, Katherine’s only child, Essie’s Roses tells of forbidden relationships flourishing in secret behind Westland’s protective trees and treasured roses.

After scandal befalls Westland, Evie and Essie, aged nineteen, travel to Richmond, Virginia, to escape their abusive pasts. There, they face the gross indecencies and divisions leading to the War Between the States. Though the horrors of slavery and discrimination prompt action, Evie and Essie’s struggles lie within. The secrets they hold and the pain of the past lead them away from one another and back home again.

A story about a black slave who frees a white woman, Essie’s Roses reveals the diverse meanings of freedom, the significance of a dream, and the power of love. In their efforts to save each other, will the women of Westland find the true freedom they desire?

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