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New Releases By Month - Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
By: TheFantastical Date: December 21, 2017, 11:38 pm
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Here I will be posting a short list - even if I try I am never
going to be able to find and follow all the books published in a
year - in fact if any of you hear of one or know of a book being
published please let me know so I may include it - every month
of Historical Fiction novels that are being released during that
month.
I will try and do the same for the other genres but it might
take some time.
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Re: New Releases By Month - Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
By: TheFantastical Date: December 22, 2017, 1:45 am
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December Releases
Knives in the South (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus) by
P.F. Chisholm and Diana Gabaldon
Release date - 14, December, 2017
Synopsis -
1592. Sir Robert Carey abandoned the ambition and treachery of
Queen Elizabeth I's court to take up the post of Deputy Warden
of the West March.
The lace-collared, pearl-sashed courtier found himself curiously
at home amongst the horse-thieves, kidnappers and murderers of
the Anglo-Scottish border, but now, to his chagrin, he's been
summoned back to London. Before he can return to Carlisle and
the joys of the raiding season, Carey must find his missing
brother, clear the family name, navigate a feud between
playwrights, identify a badly decomposed body washed up on the
Queen's privy steps, and investigate a murder some thirty years
past...
Plunging readers straight into the racous world of late
sixteenth-century border reivers and unfettered Elizabethan
intrigue, Knives in the South is the second chronicle of Sir
Robert Carey's adventures, collecting the novels A Plague of
Angels, A Murder of Crows and An Air of Treason under one
volume.
Link
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35890241-knives-in-the-south?from_search=true
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A Hope Divided (The Loyal League 2) by Alyssa Cole
Release date - 28, November, 2017
Synopsis -
For three years of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has
helped the cause in peace: with coded letters about anti-Rebel
uprisings in her Carolina woods, tisanes and poultices for Union
prisoners, and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike.
Her formerly enslaved mother's traditions and the name of a
white father she never knew have protected her--until the
vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie's home for their
new base of operations in the guerilla war against Southern
resistors of the Rebel cause.
Unbeknowst to those under her roof, escaped prisoner Ewan McCall
is sheltering in her laboratory. Seemingly a quiet philosopher,
Ewan has his own history with the cruel captain of the Home
Guard, and a thoughtful but unbending strength Marlie finds
irresistible.
When the revelation of a stunning family secret places Marlie's
freedom on the line, she and Ewan have to run for their lives
into the hostile Carolina night. Following the path of the
Underground Railroad, they find themselves caught up in a
vicious battle that could dash their hopes of love--and
freedom--before they ever cross state lines.
Link
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34570037-a-hope-divided?ac=1&from_search=true
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The Ballad of Black Bart by Loren D. Estleman
Release date - 14 November 2017
Synopsis -
The Ballad of Black Bart: a riveting western novel from Spur
Award-Winning Author Loren D. Estleman.
Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the
stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country
a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun,
walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for
hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black
Bart was fiercely hunted.
Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a
distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San Francisco's
entertainments in the company of socialites drawn to his quiet,
temperate good nature and upper-class tastes.
Meanwhile, James B. Hume, Wells Fargo's legendary chief of
detectives, made Bart's apprehension a matter of personal as
well as professional interest.
The Ballad of Black Bart is a duel of wits involving two
adversaries of surpassing cleverness, set against the vivid
backdrop of the Old West.
Link
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33517561-the-ballad-of-black-bart?ac=1&from_search=true
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The Macedonian by Nicholas Guild
Release date - December 5, 2017
Synopsis -
On a cold, snow-swept night in the ancient Greek kingdom of
Macedon, a son is born to the king’s principal wife. His mother
hates him for being his father’s child. His father hardly
notices him. With two elder brothers, obscurity seems his
destiny. The boy is sent off to be nursed by the chief steward’s
wife.
Yet, in a moment of national crisis, when Macedon is on the
verge of being torn apart, the prince raised by a servant finds
himself proclaimed the king.
This is the story of Philip, prince and king, the forgotten boy
who rose to save his country and became a legend in his own
lifetime. His extensive military conquests across the Greek
peninsula would pave the way for expansion under his son,
Alexander the Great.
Link
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33517545-the-macedonian
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Dark Winds Rising (Queen Branwen 2) by Mark Noce
Release date - 5th, December , 2017
Synopsis -
Mark Noce returns with his second book about the Braveheart-like
Queen Branwen in this epic historical series set in Medieval
Wales.
Set in a time and era in which very little reliable written
records or archeological remains have survived, Mark Noce bases
his novel on primary sources such as St. Gildas (a Welsh cleric
of the era), mythology from the Welsh Mabinogion, and Arthurian
literature from Malory to T.H. White. Although the characters
and some of the place names are fictional, the physical
environment, the historical details, and the saga of the Welsh
people is real.
Queen Branwen finds her world once again turned upside down as
Pictish raiders harry the shores of her kingdom. Rallying her
people once more, she must face her most dangerous foe yet, the
Queen of the Picts. Ruthless and cunning, the Pictish Queen
turns the Welsh against each other in a bloody civil war, and
Branwen must attempt to stop her before her country threatens to
tear itself apart.
All the while Branwen is heavy with child, and finds her young
son’s footsteps dogged by a mysterious assassin. Branwen must
somehow defeat the Picts and save her people before the Pictish
Queen and a mysterious assassin threaten to destroy their lives
from the inside out.
Reminiscent of classics like The Mists of Avalon and A Game of
Thrones, and newer popular titles like Hild, this continuation
of Branwen's story combines elements of mystery and romance with
Noce's gift for storytelling.
Link
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33574109-dark-winds-rising?ac=1&from_search=true
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