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Published Sep 2017
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Published May 2016
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Published Jun 2012
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by Felix J. Palma
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsA skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel mysteries including an aristocrat's love affair with a murdered prostitute from the past, a Victorian woman's escape to the future, and a plot to murder celebrated authors to steal their written works.
by Rebecca Stott
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsFilled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newtons scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newtons alchemy.
by Susanna Clarke
Published Sep 2005
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