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Written by: David Justin Elliott
Published by: David Justin Elliott
Submitted By: David Justin Elliott
THIS REVIEW SUBMITTED BY THE BOOK’S AUTHOR Three couples are on an idyllic sailing holiday, cruising aboard the British registered, ultra-modern 57 foot cruising yacht L’Etoile from the Bahamas to the West Indies. In the early hours of the morning…
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Written by: :Imogen Robertson
Published by: Headline Review
Submitted By: Dag Hovden
First story of, until now, a series of 4 featuring the Harriet Westerman, strongwilled and intelligent, and Gabriela Crowther, a reclusive pathologist, solving a murder mystery. It’s mid 18th century, rural England, all very proper and neat. There are lots…
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Written by: Ken Holdsworth
Published by: Ulverscroft
Submitted By: Ken Holdsworth
THIS REVIEW SUBMITTED BY THE BOOK’S AUTHOR The year is 1754. On discovering she was pregnant with his child, the Satanist, the Reverend Edwin Cruikshank, has sold Thomas Neville’s beautiful mulatto sweetheart, Emily, into slavery. Now Cruikshank is dead, but…
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Written by: Gordon Waddell
Published by: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013
Submitted By: Gordon Waddell
THIS REVIEW SUBMITTED BY THE BOOK’S AUTHOR HIGHLAND ROOTS is the real story of one Highland cottage through Scotland’s turbulent history. It is a blend of history, archaeology, estate records, literature and legend too. It includes a lot of original…
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Written by: Tom Taylor
Published by: Handcock and Dean
Submitted By: Tom Taylor
THIS REVIEW SUBMITTED BY THE BOOK’S AUTHOR Thirty-six former slaves in their own “Coloured Company” fought beside British redcoats at the Battle of Queenston Heights on the drizzly morning of October 13, 1812. That’s in the history books. What part…
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Written by: Mike Carlon
Published by: Leapfrog Press
Submitted By: Mike Carlon
THIS REVIEW SUBMITTED BY THE BOOK’S AUTHOR These are my two young adult novels, which are being adopted by more and more middle and high schools, as well as by the education department of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In addition,…
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Written by: Stephen Bradford Marte
Published by: Stephen Bradford Marte
Submitted By: Stephen Bradford Marte
THIS REVIEW SUBMITTED BY THE BOOK’S AUTHOR: Most people have heard about King Leonidas and the famous last stand of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. The story comes from ‘The History’ by the father of history, Herodotus. Sadly, recent books…
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Written by: Dean Barrett
Published by: Village East Books
Submitted By: Dean Barrett
Review submitted by book’s author: “Setting is more than a backdrop in this fast-paced adventure story of mid-nineteenth-century British colonial Hong Kong. Characters, plot, and numerous subplots reflect the clash of cultures and class — both within and between the…
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Written by: Zoe Oldenbourg
Published by: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Submitted By: Clay Chesney
Zoe Oldenbourg has written a number of books on the middle ages, set mostly in France, and which, in the words of one reviewer, capture “the strength and brutality, squalor and beauty, faith and ignorance, pageantry and agony of Europe’s…
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Written by: Craig William Emms
Published by: Cold Fish Books
Submitted By: Linda Barnett
One Heartbeat A Minute is a fiction thriller based on true events. It features a former Special Force’s soldier and agent of the Secret Intelligence Service named John Smith, and his adventures in half a dozen wars and conflicts around…
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