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Historical Fiction September 2017
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Robert B. Parker's Revelation
by Robert Knott
When a particularly intimidating criminal and his cold-blooded posse escape from prison, Cole and Hitch join their Territorial lawmen team to capture the fugitives and rescue a woman who was kidnapped during the escape. By the best-selling author of Robert B. Parker's Blackjack.
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The unquiet grave : a novel
by Sharyn McCrumb
A tale based on the bizarre 1897 case of the Greenbrier Ghost follows the "talking therapy" of an asylum inmate, a black attorney who decades earlier helped to defend a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride, who famously implicated her husband from beyond the grave. By the best-selling author of the Ballad series.
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A column of fire
by Ken Follett
A half-century love affair between a man in service to Elizabeth I and a woman on the opposing side of England's religious divide is challenged by violent ideological power shifts, torn loyalties and the queen's circle of spies, in a latest entry in the best-selling series that includes The Pillars of the Earth.
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Focus on: Biblical Figures
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| The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen by Tosca LeeCast aside after her mother's death and father's subsequent remarriage, young Bilqis relies on her wits to survive life at court and claim her birthright as Queen of Sheba (Saba). But she meets her match when she journeys to Israel on a diplomatic mission to King Solomon, a man renowned for his wisdom. Fleshing out an enigmatic figure mentioned only briefly in the Bible and the Quran, author Tosca Lee presents a strong and independent female ruler worthy of her legendary status. |
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Esther : a novel
by Rebecca Kanner
After becoming the Queen of Persia, Esther must find the strength within to violate the king's law, risk her life and save her Jewish people. By the author of Sinners and the Sea. Simultaneous eBook.
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