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Maryka’s 2025 Year in Books
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Maryka Biaggio
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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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Margery and Me
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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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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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What Happens at Nightfall: A Novel – A Supernatural Cemetery Romance of Gilded Age Curses and Second Chances
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"True crime comes to life in this exhilarating and highly entertaining book.
Set in 1920’s Brooklyn, this is the true story of a couple who went on a crime spree robbing local stores. The author brings these characters, and the police chasing them, to " Read more of this review » |
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"I had great hopes for this book as it covered such an topic and time in history. Unfortunately, it did not live up to my expectations.
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"This was an inventive and engaging story. The distinctive narrative voice moved the story along nicely. Along with the way, we encounter an interesting series of actual historical figures. The scenes with Houdini were particularly fascinating."
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Hello Meaghan, Thanks for pointing out that Margery and Me is tagged as True Crime in Netgalley. It really doesn't fit that category, and I've asked m
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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 | 655 | 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 | 601 | 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
