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A woman with a murky past who kills herself—or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring working...
"Do you love historical mini-series? Were you mournful when "Mercy Street" was cancelled? Were you disappointed when John Jakes didn't finish his Bicentennial books? Well, the wait is over; historical novelist William Gear has finished his magnum..."
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"Tracing four southern rebel siblings through the civil war and the years afterwards, I found this novel a hard, but rewarding, read. The writing is elegant; the descriptions of death, injury, courage, madness, and degradation are harrowing as are ..."
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"Despite it's length, I really loved this book for keeping me engaged - riveted really. It illustrated so well how women were so powerless to affect their own destinies in so many ways. There's even a paragraph where the main female character spe..."
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