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Currents Deep and Deadly
Darcy Farthing is a most unlikely detective. But as soon as this 40-year-old blond bombshell finds herself aboard the Sea Nymph cruise ship with Dr. Peter Johnson for a relaxing South American vacation, she is unwittingly swept up in a...
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The Queen's Companion
It’s the mid-1550s in beautiful Montalcino and Queen Catherine must take a husband, or risk losing her small “Italian” kingdom to Bishop Thomas Capshaw and the bloody paranoia of the European Inquisition. While it’s known to many...
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The Master of Fate
When a young man is given everything at once-a good family, good luck, happiness and good standing among his peers-there often can only be room for misfortune to join the “everything” that man has been given. Oscar Moreira is a...
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The Yellow Ribbon Snake
What is left in the world for people who are still alive yet whose lives have been destroyed? All is inverted. Pain is now painless. Poverty is ambiguous riches. The hurtful past is now the ambivalent present. Dailey writes with the...
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The Diaries of Adam & Eve
If Adam could get Eve to stop talking for just one minute, he could appreciate her beauty and fall in love with her. So opens this curious set of intertwined diaries of Earth’s first two human inhabitants as “translated” with...
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Mark Twain
With biographical narration and liberal quoting from Twain’s complete writings, Emerson, in essence, co-authors with Samuel Clemens to create this all at once engaging and purified life story. This strategic partnership between...
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A Window Facing West
Moments of great storytelling, of raw, powerful, emotionally charged and perhaps even perfect fiction are scattered through Tarlton’s first effort as a novelist. A Window Facing West covers some familiar ground but offers unique...
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Proper Mark Twain
When he first donned the white suit, Samuel Clemens became the “proper” Mark Twain, speaking with irreverence to conservative society, but really believing that honoring faith, country and family was the highest calling. A University...