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Features this issue:

Editorial: Unique Perspectives, Bethany Skaggs
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
History and Film: Addie Pray/Paper Moon: From Book to Film, B.J. Sedlock
New Zealand Historical Fiction's Coming of Age, Loren Teague (cover story)
Austen Without Opprobrium, Amanda Grange
Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Sarah Johnson interviews Mary Sharratt
Realizing a Dream: Wendy Zollo interviews Anne Easter Smith

Books Reviewed:
(Hyperlinks indicate Editors' Choice novels for this issue)

• Aidan, Pamela - An Assembly Such as This

• Aidan, Pamela - Duty and Desire

• Aira, Cesar - An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

• Alexander, Tamera - Rekindled

• Allan, Kate - Perfidy and Perfection

• Alleyn, Susanne - Game of Patience

• Alvarez, Julia - Saving the World

• Anderson, Catherine - Summer Breeze

• Appelfeld, Aharon - Katerina

• Arana, Marie - Cellophane

• Arkin, Frieda - Hedwig and Berti

• Austin, Lynn - Faith of My Fathers

• Aylmer, Janet - Darcy's Story

• Baker, Anne - Let the Bells Ring

• Baldry, Cherith - The Silent Man

• Ball, Margaret - The Duchess of Aquitaine

• Banning, Lynna - Loner's Lady

• Baricco, Alessandro - An Iliad

• Barton, Emily - Brookland

• Behrens, Peter - The Law of Dreams

• Bennett, Veronica - Angelmonster

• Berdoll, Linda - Darcy and Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley

• Beverley, Jo - The Rogue's Return

• Bigsby, Christopher - Beautiful Dreamer

• Blair, Annette - Scoundrel in Disguise

• Blakely, Mike - Come Sundown

• Blegvad, Lenore - Kitty and Mr. Kipling

• Boggs, Johnny D. - Walk Proud, Stand Tall

• Bonacci, Silvia - Voices from a Time

• Bourne, Russell - Cradle of Violence

• Brewer, Sonny - A Sound Like Thunder

• Brightwell, Emily - Mrs. Jeffries Appeals the Verdict

• Bristow, Gwen - Jubilee Trail

• Brotton, Jerry - The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection

• Brown, Peter C. - The Fugitive Wife

• Bryant, Sarah - The Other Eden

• Buckley-Archer, Linda - Gideon the Cutpurse

• Bull, Malcolm - The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art

• Bunn, T. Davis and Isabella - The Night Angel

• Burton, Ann - Jael's Story

• Camp, Candace - An Independent Woman

• Carroll, Lenore - Uncertain Pilgrims

• Carroll, Susan - The Silver Rose

• Chase, Loretta - Lord Perfect

• Chesney, Marion - Our Lady of Pain

• Christie, Pamela - The King's Lizard

• Claudel, Philippe - By a Slow River

• Clement-Davies, David - The Telling Pool

• Collier, Catrin - Tiger Bay Blues

• Connor, Alexandra - The Tailor's Wife

• Cook, K.L. - The Girl from Charnelle

• Coontz, Stephanie - Marriage, a History, or How Love Conquered Marriage

• Cox, Michael - The Meaning of Night

• Craig, Gretchen - Always and Forever

• Cruse, Mark, and Hilde Hoogenboom - The Memoirs of Catherine the Great: A New Translation

• Cunningham, Elizabeth - The Passion of Mary Magdalen

• Day, Sylvia - Bad Boys Ahoy!

• Delany, Vicki - Burden of Memory

• Dickinson, Margaret - Pauper's Gold

• Dickson, Athol - River Rising

• Doherty, Paul - The Year of the Cobra

• Dolan, Kate - Restitution

• Downie, Ruth - Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls

• Drake, Nick - Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

• Duble, Kathleen Benner - The Sacrifice

• Dumas, Alexander - The Women's War

• Dunant, Sarah - In the Company of the Courtesan

• Duncan, Alice - Lost Among the Angels

• Eldridge, Jim - Spy Smuggler

• Elliott, L.M. - Give Me Liberty

• Erickson, Carolly - Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs

• Estleman, Loren D. - The Adventures of Johnny Vermilion

• Fenby, Jonathan - The Sinking of the Lancastria

• Finney, Patricia - The Lady Grace Mysteries: Feud

• Foard, Sheila Wood - Harvey Girl

• Foley, Gaelen - His Wicked Kiss

• Frazer, Margaret - The Boy's Tale

• Furst, Alan - The Foreign Correspondent

• Ganz, Earl - The Taos Truth Game

• Gardner, Laurien - Plain Jane

• Garwood, W.R. - Hunt Down Harry Tracy

• George, Margaret - Helen of Troy

• Gillon, Steven M. - 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America

• Givens, Kathleen - On a Highland Shore

• Gleitzman, Morris - Once

• Goodman, Carol - The Ghost Orchid

• Goodman, Susan - Children of War

• Goodwin, Rosie - Dancing Till Midnight

• Goodwin, Rosie - No One's Girl

• Gortner, C.W. - The Last Queen

• Grady, Erin - Whispers

• Granger, Ann - A Rare Interest in Corpses

• Grant, K.M. - Green Jasper

• Gray, Clio - Guardians of the Key

• Grayling, A.C. - Among the Dead Cities

• Greenway, Alice - White Ghost Girls

• Grenville, Kate - The Secret River

• Griffin, Peni R. - 11,000 Years Lost

• Groom, Winstom - Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans

• Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants

• Guler, Kathleen Cunningham - The Anvil Stone

• Halter, Marek - Lilah

• Harper, Karen - The Last Boleyn

• Harris, Jane - The Observations

• Haworth, Jenny - Lost Souls

• Hecht, Daniel - Bones of the Barbary Coast

• Heighton, Steven - Afterlands

• Hendry, Frances - Gladiatrix: The Supreme Warrior

• Herman, Eleanor - Sex with the Queen

• Hern, Candice - In the Thrill of the Night

• Herr, Melody - Summer of Discovery

• Herries, Anne - Lovers and Enemies

• Higgs, Liz Curtis - Grace in Thine Eyes

• Hitchcock, Colleen - Rabbit Heart

• Holman, Anne - The Mantua-Maker's Beau

• Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas - Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream

• Hooper, Brad - Read On… Historical Fiction

• Hooper, Mary - At the Sign of the Sugared Plum

• Hughes, Dean - Search and Destroy

• Humphreys, C.C. - Absolute Honour

• Hutchinson, Robert - Elizabeth's Spy Master

• Jackson, Jane - Dangerous Waters

• Jackson, Lee - The Last Pleasure Garden

• Jager, Eric - The Last Duel

• Jakeman, Jane - In the City of Dark Waters

• James, Caryn - What Caroline Knew

• Jeffries, Sabrina - Never Seduce a Scoundrel

• Johns, Rebecca - Icebergs

• Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. - Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes

• Kadohata, Cynthia - Weedflower

• Karp, Larry - The Ragtime Kid

• Kaufman, Pamela - The Prince of Poison

• Kellerman, Faye - Straight Into Darkness

• Kelly, Leisha - Rachel's Prayer

• Kerr, M.E. - I Stay Near You

• King, Greg - The Court of the Last Tsar

• Kirkpatrick, Jane - A Clearing in the Wild

• Klein, Lisa - Ophelia

• Knight, Bernard - The Elixir of Death

• Lake, Deryn - Death and the Cornish Fiddler

• Landis, J.D. - The Valley

• Lang, Susan - Juniper Blue

• Langan, Ruth Ryan - Duchess of Fifth Avenue

• Laurens, Stephanie - To Distraction

• Lavagnino, Alessandra - The Librarians of Alexandria

• Levin, Betty - Thorn

• Lindsey, Johanna - Captive of My Desires

• Lingard, Joan - Tug of War

• London, Julia - The Hazards of Hunting a Duke

• MacCoun, Catherine - Beyond the Abbey Gates

• MacKenzie, Sally - The Naked Duke

• MacLean, Anna - Louisa and the Crystal Gazer

• MacQuigg, Donna - The Price of Pride

• Malmont, Paul - The Chinatown Cloud Death Peril

• Mann, John - Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China

• Manrique, Jaime - Our Lives Are the Rivers

• Mark, Jan - The Stratford Boys

• Marshall, Jeffrey D. - The Inquest

• Martin, Andrew - The Lost Luggage Porter

• Martin, James Conroyd - Against a Crimson Sky

• Martin, Rosemary - Twist and Shout Murder

• Mazer, Harry - A Boy No More

• McKay, Ami - The Birth House

• McNair, Don - The Long Hunter

• Merridale, Catherine - Ivan's War

• Metzger, Barbara - Jack of Clubs

• Miller, Fenella-Jane - A Suitable Husband

• Miller, Judith - Morning Sky

• Mokkedem, Malika - Century of Locusts

• Monroe, Catherine - The Barefoot Girl

• Monroe, Lucy - Tempt Me

• Morris, Gilbert - Daughter of Deliverance

• Mountain, Fiona - Bloodline

• Murray, Annie - Family of Women

• Napoli, Donna Jo - Fire in the Hills

• Naslund, Sena Jeter - Abundance

• Nielsen, Francis W. - The Witness of St. Ansgars

• Noonan, Brandon - Plenty Porter

• Nunez, Elizabeth - Prospero's Daughter

• Oden, Scott - Memnon

• Overholser, Wayne D. - Bitter Wind

• Parker, Imogen - The Time of Our Lives

• Pearl, Matthew - The Poe Shadow

• Pella, Judith - Mark of the Cross

• Pepper, Andrew - The Last Days of Newgate

• Peters, Elizabeth - Tomb of the Golden Bird

• Peterson, Tracie - Summer of the Midnight Sun

• Phillips, Michael - The Soldier's Lady

• Post, S.H. - Samsara Moon

• Quick, Amanda - Second Sight

• Rabin, Staton - Black Powder

• Rees, Douglas - The Janus Gate

• Richardson, Evelyn - The Education of Lady Frances and Miss Cresswell's London Triumph

• Rodoreda, Merce - A Broken Mirror

• Rose, Alexander - Washington's Spies

• Rosenberg, Barry, and Catherine Macaulay - Mavericks of the Sky

• Rosner, Elizabeth - Blue Nude

• Rourke, Mary - Two Women of Galilee

• Rowe, Rosemary - A Roman Ransom

• Runcie, James - Canvey Island

• Russell, Norman - The Gold Masters

• Rutherfurd, Edward - The Rebels of Ireland / Ireland: Awakening

• Ryan, Robert - The Last Sunrise

• Sawyer, Cheryl - The Code of Love

• Scarrow, Alex - A Thousand Suns

• Scarrow, Simon - Young Bloods

• Schechter, Harold - The Tell-Tale Corpse

• Scotti, R.A. - Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal Building St. Peter's

• Seton, Anya - Avalon

• Severin, Tim - Viking: King's Man

• Shadrake, Susanna - The World of the Gladiator

• Sierra, Javier - The Secret Supper

• Skelton, Matthew - Endymion Spring

• Smith, Andrea - The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner

• Smith, D. James - The Boys of San Joaquin

• Smith, Dominic - The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

• Smith, Don Ian, and Naida West - Murder on the Middle Fork

• Smith, Joan - Talk of the Town

• Soliman, Wendy - Lady Hartley's Inheritance

• Speed, John - The Temple Dancer

• St. Giles, Jennifer - Midnight Secrets

• Stannard, David E. - Honor Killing

• Straight, Susan - A Million Nightingales

• Suez, Perla - The Entre Rios Trilogy

• Tallis, Frank - A Death in Vienna

• Tarr, Hope - Vanquished

• Taylor, Alan - The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

• Taylor, D.J. - Kept

• Taylor, Theodore - Ice Drift

• Thomas, Edwin - Treason's River

• Thornton, Elizabeth - The Bachelor Trap

• Turner, Faye - Traces: Birth of Alexander the Great

• Turtledove, Harry - Fort Pillow

• Urquhart, Jane - A Map of Glass

• Urrea, Luis Alberto - The Hummingbird's Daughter

• Valentine, Charlie - Better Days Ahead

• Various - Regency Christmas Courtship

• Vassanji, M.G. - The Book of Secrets

• Vernon, John - La Salle

• Walker, Robert - City for Ransom

• Warren, Tracy Anne - The Husband Trap

• Warren, Tracy Anne - The Wife Trap

• Westin, Jeane - Lady Anne's Dangerous Man

• Wier, Allen - Tehano

• Williams, Dee - Sunshine After Rain

• Williams, Maiya - The Hour of the Cobra

• Williams, Maiya - The Golden Hour

• Winthrop, Elizabeth - Counting on Grace

• Woods, Stuart - Chiefs

• Worrall, Jay - Any Approaching Enemy

• Wrede, Patricia C., and Caroline Stevermer - The Grand Tour

• Wright, Stephen - The Amalgamation Polka

• Wyss, Thelma Hatch - Bear Dancer

• Yamanaka, Lois-Ann - Behold the Many

• Yep, Laurence - The Earth Dragon Awakes

• Young, Michele-Ann - Pistols at Dawn

• Zettel, Sarah - Camelot's Sword / Under Camelot's Banner

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