by Max Overton
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Other Historical Novels By This Publisher
Blind Gods
By Jack Adler
{Historical: Rome}
"Blind Gods" is a novel about Agis, a king of Sparta who tries to reform the city-state as it sinks into decline during the period when the Macedonians held sway in ancient Greece and while Rome was on the ascendancy.
Three love stories are interwoven as Agis seeks support for his reforms among the oligarchy running Sparta while the helots, the people whom the Spartans conquered and then kept in servitude, threaten to rebel.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Blind-Gods.html
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Dance With The Devil
By James Dressler
{Historical: America (Civil War)}
War! Tom Holloway and his Southern friends are excited about the prospects. But what do they know of war? Only what they read about in the newspapers. They envision the whole thing as an adventure, something to prove their manhood, to make them into men. A quick, few-month diversion from their sometimes boring school regimen. A chance to be part of a winning team.
But words from a grizzled war veteran sets Tom to thinking. And he remembers those words as he marches off with his friends to do battle against the Yankees. The foursome soon find out that war is indeed hell as they watch friends and comrades die in a volley of gun and cannon fire on blood-soaked ground. Hunger, cold, fatigue, fear and resignation are soon the only comrades they have left.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Dance-With-The-Devil.html
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Helga's Story: A Child of NAZI Germany
By Peter Woodruff
{Historical: World War II}
Living history through the eyes of a young German Girl
Although fiction, Helga's Story is based on recollections of the real Helga, who barely survived the near total destruction of her native Germany.
Like many little girls, Helga Reiter dreams of horses. More than anything, the six-year-old wants to learn to ride and become a great equestrian. But in 1941 the world is at war. Having overrun much Europe and North Africa, Germany's glorious military cannot spare horses for frivolous childhood dreams. It takes three long years before Helga, stubborn as any good German soldier, contrives several ill-fated attempts to ride. Yet by late 1944, Helga must forgo her dream and face a terrible reality; her country is losing. As Germany is crushed between the Soviet and Allied advance, the Reiter family struggles to survive.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Helgas-Story.html
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One Last Chase
By Wayne Winkle
{Historical: Western}
1899. When Micah Albright's only granddaughter, Addie, is kidnapped, he falls back on his experience as a U.S. Marshal to hunt down the kidnappers and bring Addie back. He fights the increasing effects of the cancer killing him to rescue her. When he confronts the kidnappers, he faces a question: Who hired them to kidnap Addie?
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/One-Last-Chase.html
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Read Into History: A Roman Tale of 123 B. C. E.
By Julie Laing
{Historical: Rome (Mid-Grade Reader)}
Moving to the city is terrible mistake Paulus knows but what can he do when Father comes back from war and wants to take the whole family to Rome? They have to plan their future (which for us is the ancient past). In Roman Tales you can see what life must have been like.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/A-Roman-Tale.html
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Strings
By Sheryle Criswell
{Historical: Holocaust}
This is fifteen-year-old Hanna Berkenski's journey from her family's tiny apartment in the Warsaw Ghetto, through the awful night she spends in a cattle-car with her mother and sister, to her three years as a violinist in the welcoming orchestra at Auschwitz.
The real horror begins as the train arrives at Auschwitz. Hanna's first impression is of a warm welcome because of the flowers and sunshine and music. She has been told she will be spending the next few weeks in a "work" camp until her family is reunited and relocated. Even the snowflakes make her feel a sense of relief...until she realizes they are not snowflakes at all, but ash.
Hanna is taken to Building 11, where the "welcoming" orchestra women are housed. Her red hair is shaved, her arm tattooed, and she is given a blue skirt, a white blouse, and a violin. She is also given a gray dress, which she wears when she is not performing. And then she spends three years in Hell.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Strings.html
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The Adventures of Mycroft Holmes
By Sam Bonnamy
Book 1: The Other Mr. Holmes
Queen Victoria's personal diary goes missing, and an equerry is murdered. The murderer must be found, and the Queen's comments on some of her ministers must never reach the Continental press. Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's elder brother, is the man to find the murderer and save Her Majesty's reputation. His mistress Anna, herself a crack shot, joins Mycroft in an attempt to keep the damning volume out of the hands of dastardly foreign agents.
"The Adventure of the Royal Revelations" is the first of three stories in "The Other Mr Holmes". In the second, Mycroft and Anna set out to save the reputation of a leading actress and keep the unique gemstone, the Flame of Natal, from the grasp of audacious thieves, while in the last story they cross swords with one of the deadliest enemies of Mycroft's brother--Colonel Sebastian Moran.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/The-Other-Mr.-Holmes.html
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Book 2: Mycroft Up Against It
Once again Anna and Mycroft Holmes tear through London in hansom cabs as they pursue three further adventures set in the eighteen-eighties. Mycroft puffs and pants his way through his cases, applying not only his keen mind but also, in one case, the precepts of the Kama Sutra, while Anna hobnobs with Buffalo Bill, Henry Irving and Oscar Wilde. In "The Deadwood Stage" an anarchist threatens mayhem at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Anna finds herself having to impersonate Miss Annie Oakley before the Prince of Wales.
Anna is accused of committing murder during a performance at the Lyceum Theatre. Henry Irving and Ellen Terry believe in her innocence, but will Inspector Athelney Jones? The answer lies in "Murder At The Lyceum".
"The Green-painted Door" is the site of a hideous slaying in Wimbledon. Oscar Wilde may exercise his scornful wit, but Mycroft Holmes is roused to action again. His privately-printed copy of the Kama Sutra (translated by Sir Richard Burton) stimulates another kind of action as Anna has every reason to know.
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Book 3: Mycroft and I
Hansoms, bicycles, a passenger liner and a Cambridge punt transport Mycroft, Anna and their enemies through four more tales. The last Pri
ncess of Hawaii, Mycroft's deadly enemy Colonel Sebastian Moran, and, of all things, a vampire feature in Mycroft and I.
The volume contains four stories: The Adventure of the Endangered Princess, The Case of the Disappearing Witness, The Mystery of the Brazen Idols and The Unpleasantness in Hanover Square. Set in London, Cambridge and Madeira, this latest Mycroft Holmes collection contains plenty of action and surprises. Not everyone is who they seem to be, and is a vampire really stalking London's West End? Mycroft and I uncovers what lies beneath the placid certainties of Victorian England.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Mycroft-and-I.html
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Book 4: Mycroft at Large
Twelve hectic months for Anna and Mycroft take them to the bogs of Ireland, the glaciers of Switzerland and the depths of wickedness in London. Anna coaches an old acquaintance in an impersonation of an American politician, Mycroft pursues a sex trafficker across the continent of Europe, and a string of suicide cases leads to a hospital where death is in the medicine cabinet. Villainy galore, heroism in heaps, and a gallery of memorable characters await you in the three stories in this volume: The Roosevelt Deception, The Five Fingers and The Three Suicides.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Mycroft-at-Large.html
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The Painted Lady
By Charles Sutton
{Historical: Celt}
Roman historians in their accounts about the Celtic Queen, Boadicea, emphasized only her ultimate failure in battle, and the atrocities that she is alleged to have committed.
This exciting tale gives Queen Boadicea a place of birth, a private life, skeletons in her cupboard, romance and courage.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/The-Painted-Lady.html
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The River Series
By Dr. Herb Marlow
{Historical: Western}
Book 1: Trouble on the Bosque
It's a long, and dangerous road from Louisiana to the L Bar Ranch on the Bosque River, Texas, but for Earl Lamar, recently discharged sergeant from the First Texas Confederate Cavalry, it's the only way home.
After surviving the war, Earl is shattered to learn his parents didn't, and now the responsibility of their ranch and their cowboys has fallen to him. Rustlers, conmen, false imprisonment and Comanche raids are challenges that must be overcome if he is to bring the L Bar Ranch back to life, and maybe, just maybe there is a new life waiting for him on the Bosque.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Trouble-on-the-Bosque.html
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Book 2: Drive the Pecos
It is June 1866, and Texas is struggling to recover from the effects of the War Between the States. Cattle are not worth much in Texas, but other places are clamoring for beef, and the Goodnight-Loving trail is opened that summer to sell cattle to the U.S. government to feed reservation Indians. Earl decides to add two hundred head of cattle to Charles Goodnight's first drive to the Pecos River.
But trouble is brewing in Texas, and Meridian and Bosque County will not be left out. The L Bar family must fight rustlers, bushwhackers and carpetbaggers to hold onto and maintain the ranch. It appears that things have settled down, however, a ruthless banker and some bushwhackers kidnap Elmer, the women and children, thinking they have put the other three men out of commission.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Drive-the-Pecos.html
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Book 3: Red River Rising
Earl Lamar, former Confederate soldier and Bosque County, Texas rancher, has made two successful cattle drives, selling cattle to keep the L Bar and all of its people taken care of. Now it is 1867, and Earl knows if he can take his herd safely across the Red River and Indian Territory, he can bring back enough money to last for a long time. But the trail to Kansas is filled with danger. There are all of the rivers to cross, Indians to avoid or fight, bad weather and worse cattle thieves. Earl has his work cut out for him...
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The Rowland Sisters Trilogy
By Catherine Dove
{Regency Romance}
Book 1: Mr Harding Proposes
Mr. Richard Harding is an eligible bachelor who has his heart set on marrying his lifelong friend and neighbor, Miss Georgiana Rowland. However, they have been good friends for so long that, when he finally screws up his courage and proposes to her, Georgie thinks he is merely teasing!
Georgiana has good reason to be so distracted. Her younger sister is about to be launched into society, and most of the work and worry falls on Georgie. Also, despite her mother's furious command, she has befriended the scandalous Lady Shipton, which brings both blessings and chaos to the Rowland family and to their kind uncle, Sir Henry. Worse for Mr. Harding, Lady Shipton's charming stepson takes a strong liking to Georgie.
Mr. Harding keeps proposing, again and again, while still trying to support Georgie in her trials. But is it possible for such a good friendship to turn into love?
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Mr-Harding-Proposes.html
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Book 2: The Lazy Bachelor
Mr. Peregrine Tyndall has often been called the laziest man in London. But he is stirred to the enormous effort of matchmaking when a hunting accident suffered by his cousin, Lord Shipton, makes him realize that he stands in real danger of inheriting an earldom--with all its responsibilities. In his opinion, the perfect girl to marry his cousin and give the earldom another heir than himself would be their childhood friend, Portia Freestone.
Mr. Tyndall doesn't know what formidable obstacles lay before him, however, when he joins a house party at the earl's country home with this match on his mind. In the first place, his normally obliging friend Portia has a secret. She has no wish to marry the earl--she likes him very well, but the man she secretly wishes to marry is Perry himself. An even bigger problem is Miss Frances Armitage. She and her little sister Eleanor had been left in Perry's guardianship, a duty he had benignly and completely neglected. But now Miss Armitage, furious, is about to descend on Lakeford Hall to demand that Perry take up his duties in a responsible manner, even if she has to force him to do it.
Thrust into just the sort of efforts he dislikes most, Mr. Tyndall tries his best to cope, and in the attempt, gets a great deal more than he bargained for.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/The-Lazy-Bachelor.html
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Book 3: Cecilia and the Rake
Unpleasant experience has given Miss Cecilia Rowland a strong aversion to rakes, even one so fascinating and gentlemanlike as Lord Ravenshill.
She does her best to ignore his existence, but Fate keeps bringing them together. Even deep in the country, visiting the home of her mother's betrothed husband, Cecilia finds herself in the company of Lord Ravenshill. Not only is he a neighbor of Mr. Clarke's, but Cecilia's stepsister-to-be, Kitty, develops a tendre toward Mr. Guy Dorne, Ravenshill's best friend.
The Viscount Ravenshill is not the sort of man to regret his past, even when he finds himself unaccountably fascinated by the lovely Miss Rowland. He looks on his friend Guy's growing attachment to Kitty Clarke with amusement and resolutely ignores the promptings of his own traitorous heart.
The grim past which made him a ruthless rake also makes him a completely unsuitable match for an innocent girl like Cecilia Rowland.
But when Cecilia and Kitty go to London for the Season, the same Fate that threw Cecilia toward Ravenshill takes an unexpected twist that endangers the loves of both girls.
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Wilhelmina
By Daphne Saxby Taylor
{Historical: Australia}
"I shall look forward with delight to working with you," stated the great Frederick Chopin, when Wilhelmina played for him. The Grand Duchess had offered her patronage. Was she set for an illustrious career as a concert pianist?
But pressures brought to bear by the social and political state of the country; the opportunities of migration to far away New South Wales and the memories of the French Revolution only 50 years ago, bear heavily on Wilhelmina's father.
Her indomitable spirit rises above all the disappointments and hardships that follow, they serving only to bring out in her, faith and courage, which would be further tested by her loving but sometimes wayward husband. All contribute to a quite amazing outcome.
