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Young Adult historical novel set in New Orleans
Romance and suspense combine at an 1874 Mardi Gras ball when 15-year-old Juliette Carondel meets her forbidden love, Union Private Roland Montgomery. Juliette narrates her dangerous courtship, echoing Romeo & Juliet's, while weaving together details of ballroom, wedding, and burial customs with a touch of voodoo. Juliette defies her family's prejudices and finds a way to live for love, not die for it. | |  | | Women of Magdalene
The women of Magdalene are dying and no one seems to care, least of all the haughty Dr. Kingston, the director of the genteel Ladies’ Lunatic Asylum.
Set in the shattered post–Civil War south, Women of Magdalene is a beautiful tale of deception, betrayal, greed and self-sacrifice.
Young Dr. Robert Mallory, fresh from three blood-soaked years as a field surgeon on the battlefields of the Civil War, makes his way on foot to the Magdalene Ladies’ Lunatic Asylum to take up duties as the resident “general practitioner.” In a river near the asylum, he finds the body of a woman. A young man nearby tells him that “she be one of them mad women,” and Mallory carries the body to the asylum’s front doors. He is confused and disappointed by the |
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Gallows Field
by Brendan O'Brien
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 Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead. |
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