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Reviewed By... Karen Frank

This debut novel is the kind of historical fiction that transports and transfixes while smoothly whirling one back and forth through time. Each character leaves a warm hand print on a frosty window and the story is intense and full of amazing detail.

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Reviewed By... Charles Bottomley

Sometimes it takes the story of someone who sleeps with the dead to make you appreciate being alive.

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Reviewed By... Nancy Scheemaker

The Story of Beautiful Girl had my full attention from the first chapter. Each character immediately gained my sympathy, and I read the novel quickly, hoping for the unlikely reunification of Lynnie, Homan, and Julia throughout. Rachel Simon writes with great sensitivity about what it might be like in our not so distant past to have a disability, to be misunderstood, to be surrendered by your family to an... read more>>>

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Reviewed By... Erik Barnum

I would not have read this wonderful novel had I not known of Mary Doria Russell's superb storytelling skills. This is the story of Doc Holliday's life told from the perspective of a cultural anthropologist - with Dodge City as the Petri dish under Russell's literary microscope. The author's seemingly simple prose soon dragoons you into experiencing the dusty daily life of her consumptive protagonist, as he co... read more>>>