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Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah & Joel Shlian (Oceanview, 2008) is the story of American-born-and-proud Lili Quan – a young medical doctor, passionately strong in her convictions and views on life. She’s also stubbornly avoiding a heritage she’d rather not identify with. But when two completely different cultures and secret political agendas collide, she slowly learns that her overall importance in a whirlwind of seemingly unconnected events cannot even begin to be imagined. It’s an east vs. west, old vs. young, democratic vs. communistic, yin vs. yang struggle for an elusive secret with unlimited and priceless potential. One that men…and even governments…are willing to kill for… Set against the most tumultuous 7 weeks in recent Chinese history from the rise of the democracy movement in April, 1989 to its fall with the June 4th massacre in Tiananmen Square, this novel is perfect for book clubs and reading groups. It has won several awards including the Gold Medal for the Florida Book Award, First Place, Royal Palm Literary Award (Florida Writers Assoc) and the Silver Medal for Mystery of the Year from ForeWord Magazine. It can be ordered from any bookstore or online from Amazon, BarnesandNoble, etc in hardback, Kindle and e-book format
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ReplyDeleteThose iron men who feared to leave home because they might sail off the edge are gone, too, but they live on everywhere flagons are lifted, in song and legend, unless, of course, the savages got them.
The Dragon at the Edge of the World is a look at those uncertain times, and the men who sailed the globe in fragile wooden boats, with no idea where they were.
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The Fairest Portion of the Globe by Frances Hunter (February 2010) is an epic, intricate historical thriller of the kind that first brought Hunter to notice three years ago with her award-winning To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis & Clark.
ReplyDeleteThe book’s plot concerns two young soldiers in the frontier army—names, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark—who become caught up in America’s first great crisis for survival.
“A French revolutionary who called himself Citizen Genet arrived on American shores in 1793, straight from the bloody streets of Paris,” says Liz Clare, who with her sister Mary writes under the Frances Hunter pen name. “Within a few months, he had provoked Britain, antagonized Spain, destabilized the American government, and brought the United States to the brink of global war.”
Against this background of seething secessionism and international intrigue, Hunter paints the growing friendship between the two young officers, who realize they must act to protect themselves and their country from the inevitable showdown between France and Spain. “It’s really the war after the war—the unknown story of the American Revolution,” says Mary Clare. “For a few months, there was a mad scramble for the vast Louisiana Territory, stretching from present-day Louisiana through the Great Plains to Montana, that involved future heroes, unsung villains, and founding fathers like Washington and Jefferson.”
Hunter’s writing has been praised as “for readers who love adventure, interesting settings, a little romance, blood and gore, and characters who live life largely.” The 428-page novel will be released in February 2010 by Blind Rabbit Press and will be available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc., the author's website, or ordered from any bookstore.
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Award-winning historical and somewhat feminist mystery/thriller: The Civil War in New Mexico, murder, a lost gold mine, and one woman's compelling secret—Matty Summerhayes is a rancher determined to conceal her past. A stranger carrying a baffling map is murdered, Texans invade her valley, and soon disaster is stalking her. Betty Parker at Southwest BookViews says, "Be prepared to skip meals and stay up all night when you begin reading this book."
Available just about anywhere books are sold.
MOCKINGBIRD is my first book and in some ways still my favorite. My fourth mystry thriller EYE OF THE MOUNTAIN GOD is slated for release by St. Martin's in April.
Check out the free sample chapters of Skookum Man in the Kindle store. This is a work of speculative historical fiction, set in the 1800's in the Pacific Northwest.
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