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Featured Spotlight Tour for "The Phantom Archer"

BOOK EXCERPT The Queen’s Tears Barbara, Chapter 2 Call upon me Buckingham does, the next day, for he is never one to leave money on the table or jewels in a casket. George is the King’s favourite. He wants for nothing, yet still he craves more. “So you were there with Queen Anna in her last moments on this earth.” What is it about the timbre of his voice that makes me quiver? Su...

BOOK EXCERPT When we were still children and it was raining, Petya and I stayed in the kitchen. Aniuta would clear spots for us at a rough wood table, place a lamp between us, and we would draw pictures. It was apparent right away that Petya had a talent for drawing. I would often put my pencil down and watch him, awestruck, as he drew. Sometimes I lay my head on my arms on the ...

Featured Blog Tour Spotlight on "Secrets of Penny University"

Book Blurb: Shortly after Kathryn Scheibel leaves her cigar‑making job in 1917, she enters the Army School of Nursing, a pioneering WWI nurse‑training program that offers the education she’s longed for but couldn’t afford. More than two decades later, her career carries her, as an instructor, into the Cadet Nurse Corps, the federal WWII nursing‑education initiative created to su...