Fiction, Historical
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My Friend, My Enemy
by Stewart Goodings
They spent their childhood summers together near the Caspian Sea, but Nadezhda and Alla lost touch, and it was only twenty years later that Fate re-united them. By then, Alla had suffered a devastating loss of her family in the Russia-Chechnya...
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Keeping Willow Creek
by Erika Taylor
Set against the backdrop of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, young George Byram is more than ready to leave his distant father and harsh life at Willow Creek, his family's farm in rural Idaho. Just as World War I ends, George's life begins to...
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Incident at Devil's Drop
by William R. Herod
In 1884, a wealthy Montana Cattle Baron watches as a predator of unknown origin starts decimating his herd. However, the killings, while savage in nature don’t correspond with any known assailant. When the clandestine entity raises the ante by...
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The Good Sister
by Jack A. Taylor
It all starts with a dare. Salome, a spirited young woman in Galilee, is perched in a tree and challenges Nathaniel, her smitten childhood friend, to climb onto a high branch after her. He falls and crushes a leg. Salome flees the scene in shock,...
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Bound
by Theresa Redmond
In the late 1700s, determinedly independent Suzanna Torriano arrives on St. John’s Island as an amateur botanist and the new governor’s mistress. But Suzanna is soon caught between two worlds—the colonial pressures from Britain that are at odds...
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The Soldier and the Orphan
Separated by Church and War by Alastair Henry
In twentieth-century England, many working-class people were victims of values and circumstances not of their own making. They were people to whom things were done to, not for. Billy and Tommy Jones and their mother, Mary, were such people. The...
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The Secret of Arbel
by Jacques C Roy
Set in modern times, The Secret of Arbel is a novel centred on a sealed coffer that, when opened by Monsignor Antoine St-Vincent (prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives), revealed several strange artifacts. A number of timeworn scrolls appear to...
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La Kanada Verkaro
by La Societo Por Kanada Antologio
La Kanada Verkaro estas antaŭ ĉio antologio de noveloj, rakontoj kaj legendoj el la literaruroj angla, franca, kaj indiĝena de Kanado ek de 1789 ĝis 2007. Jen kelkaj de la aŭtoroj: Francis Brooke, L. Frechette, Jessie Georgina Sime, Stephen...
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Melting Pots and Tribal Enclaves
by Terry Morgan
Michael and Betta Dubinsky have recently moved to Canada from war-torn Galicia. They do their best to engage with the culture, but have a hard time letting go of their own traditional values. They try to impress their Ukrainian ideals upon their...
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All Of The Colourful Seasons
by Wendy Fraser
The small riverside town has not recovered from The Great Depression, yet WW2 is on the horizon and many young men in town are signing up. Doctor Ben Harder is embittered with his life, he's married to Louisa, the town tart while his heart still...
