Saturday, June 7, 2008
by Aussie Book Karma
Title: Vanishing Acts
Author: Jodi Picoult
Category: General Fiction
Blurb:
Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it. Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available
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Friday, June 6, 2008
by Aussie Book Karma
Title: Royal Road to Fotheringay
Author: Jean Plaidy
Category: Historical Fiction
Blurb:
The haunting story of the beautiful—and tragic—Mary, Queen of Scots, as only legendary novelist Jean Plaidy could write it. The first book in Plaidy's two Queen of Scots books, following Mary's troublesome beginning leading to her house arrest in England.Owner: Kjirsten Hartwell
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available
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Title: The Miracle at St. Bruno's
Author: Philipa Carr
Category: Historical Fiction
Blurb:
"I was born in the September of 1523, nine months after the monks had discovered the child in the crib on that Christmas morning. My birth was, my father used to say, another miracle: He was not young at the time being forty years of age . . . My mother, whose great pleasure was tending her gardens, called me Damask, after the rose which Dr. Linacre, the King's physician, had brought into England that year." (Taken from Opening Paragraph)Owner: Kjirsten Hartwell
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available
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Title: The Wandering Prince (Stuart Saga, Book 3)
Author: Jean Plaidy
Category: Historical Fiction
Blurb:
He was born Charles Stuart, and deprived of his heritage, he was forced to spend the early years of his manhood wandering Europe. He became Charles II, King of England, the most fascinating rake in British history. It is the story of Chares' early years that is told here through the eyes of two women -- one, Lucy Water, who became his mistress and the mother of his natural son; the other, Charles' younger sister, Minette.Owner: Kjirsten Hartwell
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available
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Title: Saint Thomas's Eve (Tudor Series, Book 6)
Author: Jean Plaidy
Category: Hsitorical Fiction
Blurb:
This is the beautifully conceived story of Sir Thomas More -- scholar, chancellor of England, man of integrity -- who was snatched from the peaceful life of his family home in Chelsea, to die on the scaffold as the price of his opposition to the wild desires of King Henry VIII. It is also the story of a delectable family caught up in the intrigues of a lustful king. Thomas More did not seek fame. His merry household, sanctuary of Holbein and Erasmus, was in startling contrast with the licentious Tudor court. But when fame was thrust upon More, he began the perilous journey which ended on St. Thomas's Eve.Owner: Kjirsten Hartwell
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available
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Title: Silhouette in Scarlet (Vicky Bliss Series, Book Two)
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Category: Crime
Blurb:
One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic "message" consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss—as they were precisely intended to do. Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously inquisitive, Vicky recognizes the handiwork of her former lover, the daring jewel thief John Smythe. So she takes the bait, eagerly following Smythe's lead in the hope of finding a lost treasure. The hunt soon threatens to turn deadly where a captive Vicky Bliss must lead an excavation into the distant past—and where digging too deep for the truth could dig her own grave.
Owner: Lman
Posted: 27 April 08
Status: Available
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Title: Vanishing Acts
