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Maryka’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maryka’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Maryka Biaggio
Goodreads Author
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in Chicago, The United States
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Some of my favorite authors are Barbara Kingsolver, Valerie Martin, Sa
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Parlor Games
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The Model Spy
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Gun Girl and the Tall Guy
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The Point of Vanishing
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Eden Waits
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Effective Brief Therapies: A Clinician's Guide
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Issues in the Psychology of Women
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Margery and Me
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Parlor Games
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Characters Stranger Than Fiction
Who hasn't tossed out the adage "truth is stranger than fiction" after hearing some absurd but true tale? In fact, the saying has turned cliché from overuse. But when it comes to fiction writers, reanimating the lives of real people is a serious matter. And many readers find their interest especially piqued by novels based on real persons. Could it be that we are compelled to compare ourselves to
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Maryka’s Recent Updates
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Maryka Biaggio
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The Windsor Affair: A Novel
by Melanie Benjamin (Goodreads Author)
10 copies
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January 31, 2026
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"In early 1924, there was a spree of robberies in Brooklyn. Almost weekly, a couple would burst into a local store, a “bob-haired” woman brandishing a gun while her male accomplice emptied the cash register. The newspaper headlines heralded each hit, "
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Thank you for reading and reviewing Gun Girl and the Tall Guy!
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"Wow! What a crazy story. I wasn't sure what to expect and this historical fiction based on true events was thrilling and sad!
Celia was trying to overcome a life of begging for Mom, everything given to get by Aunt was taken and sold by Mom and more. " Read more of this review » |
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"I received this as an ARC through LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review. Apparently, this author takes little know stories from American history and fictionalizes them to bring them to a modern audience and this is not her first installment.
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Thank, Carolyn, for reading and reviewing Gun Girl and the Tall Guy!
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“But once again happiness had eluded me—no, been snatched from me. Rage boiled up, mingling with sadness; my chest compressed into a rumbling geyser.”
― Parlor Games
― Parlor Games
Topics Mentioning This Author
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The Seasonal Read...:
Winter Challenge 2013: Completed Tasks (Do Not Delete Posts)
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2478 | 653 | Feb 28, 2014 09:00PM | |
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Crime, Mysteries ...:
June 2014 Nominations
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Crime, Mysteries ...:
September 2014 Nominations
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| The Seasonal Read...: Questions/Problems in Completed Tasks | 447 | 252 | Aug 31, 2014 06:41PM | |
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The Seasonal Read...:
Completed Tasks: Do Not Delete Posts
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2625 | 600 | Aug 31, 2014 08:59PM | |
| The History Book ...: FRANCIE'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2014 | 78 | 92 | Dec 31, 2014 09:46PM | |
| A Million More Pages: ✔R1:High-Flying Honey Badgers(H) vs Dumbledore's Flying Army(G) | 259 | 88 | Apr 17, 2015 10:47PM | |
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A Million More Pages:
MASH With A Gryffindor
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A Million More Pages:
APR15 Scavenger Hunt
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The Seasonal Read...:
Spring 2015 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE POSTS
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“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again, and this after filling 400 words with notes, mostly delirious, before getting into anything in the nature of a coherent scenario.”
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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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“On the 9th day of May, 1862, at which time there were nearly four millions of your race in bondage, sanctioned by the laws of the land and protected by our flag,--on that day, in the face of the floods of prejudice that well-nigh deluged every avenue to manhood and true liberty, you came forth to do battle for your country and kindred.”
― Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops: Late 1st S. C. Volunteers
― Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops: Late 1st S. C. Volunteers
“For long and weary months, without pay or even the privilege of being recognized as soldiers, you labored on, only to be disbanded and sent to your homes without even a hope of reward, and”
― Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops: Late 1st S. C. Volunteers
― Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops: Late 1st S. C. Volunteers
“It seemed very hard, when his father fought to protect the Union and our flag, and yet his boy was denied, under this same flag, a berth to carry him home to die, because he was a negro.”
― Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops: Late 1st S. C. Volunteers
― Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops: Late 1st S. C. Volunteers
Ask Maryka Biaggio, Author of Parlor Games
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A chance to ask questions about Parlor Games, its wily protagonist, or writing historical fiction...November 24, 2013
Historical Fictionistas
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Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more
