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Death in the Rainy Season

Mary Martin Devlin

Amid the political complexities of 1980s Zaire, European and American expatriates drink, flirt, and gossip about who is sleeping with whom. As a plot to overthrow the dictator Mobutu gains momentum, power, corruption, and sexual jealousy threaten to shatter the love affair of American Sarah Laforge and African-born Belgian Jacques Delpech.

March 27, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-9944453-04-6
paperback, 254 pages
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The La Motte Woman

Mary Martin Devlin

Descended from a bastard branch of French royalty, Jeanne de La Motte is an enchanting beauty and a con artist with an epic imagination. Taking 1780s Paris by storm, she concocts a masterful swindle that helps to bring down the French monarchy—and makes the ambitious Prince Cardinal Louis de Rohan pay for it.

June 15, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-9944453-12-1
paperback, 354 pages
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Precious Pawn

Mary Martin Devlin

Mary Martin Devlin brings the elaborate protocol of Versailles and the manners and morals of the eighteenth-century court aristocracy to life in rich, evocative detail. Her vividly drawn characters, subtle conversations and elegant settings capture an age when wit and beauty reigned but breaking the rules could have serious consequences.

June 10, 2014
ISBN: 9780991121519
paperback, 398 pages
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The Three Deaths of Giovanni Fumiani

Jeffrey Hantover

When an artist buried four years ago turns up dead again, an impoverished nobleman travels down the corrupt byways of 18th-century Venice to investigate.

May 9, 2023
ISBN: 9781944453220
paperback, 212 pages
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eISBN: 9781944453237
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Knight's Pawn

A. L. Kucherenko

A mercenary knight with a narrow future helps William of Normandy conquer England and is rewarded with lavish estates – and a wife suspected of treason.

October 25, 2022
ISBN: 9781944453206
paperback, 362 pages
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eISBN: 9781944453213
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El Penco

Ann McGlinn

Ciudad Juárez, just across the Mexican-US border from El Paso, comes to life in this novel of friendship, grief, and transformation. A circle of friends, a trio of strangers, and a city of beauty and violence, teeming with artists, factory workers, migrants, and other transients.

February 3, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-9911215-2-6
paperback, 184 pages
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Ride On, See You

Ann McGlinn

When their small plane crashes into the Everglades, David Lenihan must return to his Dublin home and confront life without his beloved wife, Marie O’Dea. Once there, David’s encounters with a troubled boy and the discovery of two gifts from Marie reveal the resiliency of the human spirit and the eternal nature of love.

February 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781944453169
paperback, 176 pages
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The Serpent's Crown

Hana Samek Norton

In this sequel to The Sixth Surrender, Juliana de Charnais is still learning how to be the wife of Guérin de Lasalle, the Lord of Parthenay and a former mercenary, when a messenger arriving from the Holy Land threatens to pull her husband back into the life he had left behind.

December 2015
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ISBN: 978-1-944453-00-8

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Pilgrimage

Lucy Pick

Blind since the death of her mother, Gebirga of Flanders flees her home with a pack of pilgrims including a count’s daughter, two clerics writing a guidebook, and a mysterious messenger with an unknown agenda, all headed along the pilgrimage road to Compostela.

July 7, 2014
ISBN: 9780991121533
paperback, 318 pages
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Vindicated

Kathleen Williams Renk

Mary Shelley’s waking and dreaming worlds conspire to create the most famously human “monster” in literature, giving the world a taste of what a woman could write and inventing a whole new genre in the process. Justifying her unconventional life and enduring personal tragedies, Mary follows in her feminist mother’s footsteps, as she contemplates a woman's place in literature and the world.

November 10, 2020
ISBN: 9781944453107
paperback, 208 pages
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Make It Concrete

Miryam Sivan

For twenty years, Isabel Toledo has been telling other people's stories – as a ghostwriter for Holocaust survivors. But now the boundaries between their past and her present are collapsing: barking dogs, a clerk asking for papers, police in the subway, push her to the brink. And the story she most wants to uncover, her own mother’s ordeal, defies all efforts to be brought to light.

April 9, 2019
ISBN: 9781944453084
paperback, 232 pages
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SNAFU and other Stories

Miryam Sivan

From New York City to Haifa and Tel Aviv, from Afghanistan to the Galilee, Miryam Sivan presents a dozen stories of women and men experiencing cross-cultural pollination and coping with the very serious business of war and love. History, dogs, obsession, religion, and the lost promise of romance weave their way through tales of mad partners, passionate lovers, wearied fighters, and folk just trying to make it through.

September 22, 2014
ISBN: 9780991121540
paperback, 214 pages
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Béjart's Caravan

Bonnie Stanard

Traveling through the French provinces in the fall and winter of 1672-1673, the actors of the Augusto Troupe encounter religious fanatics, desperate maidens, greedy peasants, nefarious nobles, and the scourge of the plague. Making its way through the plot is a young actor’s pursuit of a relic from Molière’s grave.

May 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781944453183
paperback, 358 pages
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Seeking the Center

Leslie Spitz-Edson

Agnes is a hockey-obsessed Métis Canadian who’s been trying to ignore the game now that there’s no place for her to play. That’s not that easy to do when she runs into an old teammate from high school who’s playing semi-pro. Her love life and her hockey obsession run side by side as she starts figuring out the meaning of the game and of her Native heritage.

October 18, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-944453-02-2
paperback, 346 pages
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Long Live Freedom!
Traute Lafrenz and
the White Rose

Peter Normann Waage

Blending memoir, group biography, and philosophical insight, this book is a unique addition to the story of the White Rose student resistance to Hitler, offering a new voice and a deeper understanding of how a few people could have such an impact during very dark times.

July 24, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-9944453-060
paperback, 256 pages
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Bedtrick

Jinny Webber

During the tumultuous late days of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign, Alexander Cooke, born female, successfully passes as male to play Shakespeare’s principal female roles. Her unconventional marriage to another woman unfolds against the political and theatrical tensions of this vibrant era, with a backstage look at Shakespeare’s plays including As You Like It, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet.

November 16, 2021
ISBN: 97819944453145
paperback, 344 pages
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A Place of Light

Kim Silveira Wolterbeek

An earthy and lyrical novel of redemption set in 12th-century France. The historical figure at its center, Robert of Arbrissel, was an intinerant priest who founded the Abbey of Fontevraud as a refuge for women but was accused of improper relations with them. This novel imagines the inner life of Robert and of three of his closest followers.

December 15, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-9911215-02
paperback, 286 pages
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eISBN 978-0-9911215-64