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Read more about the article JEFF SHAARA

JEFF SHAARA

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:2 November 2021
  • Post category:Featured Author/History

Jeff Shaara wrote Gods and Generals as a prequel to his father's novel, The Killer Angels. Both approach the history of the American Civil War not as strictly historical narratives…

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Read more about the article R. D. Blackmore

R. D. Blackmore

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:17 August 2021
  • Post category:Adventure/Featured Author/History/Readers/Romance

I had heard of the classic Lorna Doone, but had not had the opportunity to read it until recently. First published in 1841, it is a love story told from…

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Read more about the article DAN BROWN

DAN BROWN

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:19 January 2021
  • Post category:Featured Author/History/Readers/Thrillers and Suspense

I've featured Dan Brown's work before, but The Lost Symbol bears special consideration. Even the cover hints at the complex layers of symbols and meanings found throughout the story: When…

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Heroines

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:20 October 2020
  • Post category:Adventure/Fantasy/General Fiction/History/Horror/Mystery/Readers/Romance/Science Fiction/Thrillers and Suspense/Western/Women's Fiction/Writers

Once upon a time women in novels were frail creatures always in need of rescuing, or silly dolts who could not be expected to know the time of day, or…

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Read more about the article Robert Harris

Robert Harris

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:7 July 2020
  • Post category:Featured Author/General Fiction/History/Readers/Writers

Pompeii is an historical novel through which the reader lives the last days of that doomed city of luxury and its neighbouring community, Herculaneum. The signs are there: Wells and…

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Culloden

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:15 April 2020
  • Post category:History/Opinion/Readers/Special Occasion/Writers

To paraphrase a famous saying:  "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." To people of Scottish descent and especially Highlanders, the name "Culloden" still evokes…

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Read more about the article Jennifer Robson

Jennifer Robson

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:3 March 2020
  • Post category:Featured Author/General Fiction/History/Readers/Romance/Women's Fiction

Well researched is the first description that comes to mind pertaining to my introduction to Jennifer Robson's writing:  Somewhere in France, a story of men and women working behind the…

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Read more about the article Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:7 January 2020
  • Post category:Adventure/Featured Author/General Fiction/History/Readers/Women's Fiction/Writers

Given the popularity of the television series, the fanatical followers in groups like "Outlanders in Ontario," "Outmander," and many more, one would think that everyone on the planet is familiar…

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Read more about the article Nigel Tranter

Nigel Tranter

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:19 December 2019
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Nigel Tranter makes Scottish history so interesting you wish his books had been part of the school curriculum. In The Clansman, he explores the persona of Roy Roy and the…

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Jack Whyte

  • Post author:Allison Azulay
  • Post published:26 November 2019
  • Post category:Featured Author/General Fiction/History/Readers/Writers

From Scotland and now living in Canada, Jack Whyte writes fictionalized accounts of historical events and thereby brings long-dead figures to life. In Uther, he describes a realistic Camulod (Camelot)…

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FROM THE QUICK-READ SERIES

I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST:  that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.”  He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular.  And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

FROM THE TWIN TALES SERIES

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly.  To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess.  Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence.  At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event?  Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals

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