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Title: The Exile Author: Diana Gabaldon Series: Outlander Format: Hardback Pages: 224 Release Date: September 21, 2010 Publisher: Del Rey Source: library Read the back of the book Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in her first-ever graphic novel, Gabaldon gives readers a fresh look at the events of the original Outlander: Jamie Fraser’s
Read moreTitle: The Sandcastle Girls Author: Chris Bohjalian Format: Kindle Pages: 320 (2012 total – 6,857) Approx. Word Count: 96,000 (2012 total – 1,910,214) Release Date: July 17, 2012 Publisher: Doubleday Categories: general fiction, historical fiction Source: ARC from publisher via Edelweiss Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian’s Armenian heritage.
Read moreTitle: Moloka’i Author: Alan Brennert Format: E-book Pages: 400 (2012 total – 848) Word Count: 136,404 (2012 total – 270,804) Release Date: October 04, 2004 Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Categories: historical fiction (late 1800s, early 1900s) Source: purchased Rating: 5 out of 5 Back of the book: This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai’i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a
Read moreBook #79 was A Dangerous Mourning, the second book in Anne Perry’s William Monk series. The back of the book reads: No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family–until Sir Basil’s beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy. Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible
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