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Marcia Maxwell

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Historical Fiction, History, Memoir

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Born and raised in the Midwest, Marcia Maxwell discovered a passion for history while working on her Ph.D. dissertation. An edition of a 14th century manuscript in Anglo-Norman French, it became the genesis of her first novel, The Rogue Queen. Then, while visiting her family one summer she learned that her grandfather’s WWI letters had survived. Using paleographic skills honed in editing the medieval manuscript she transcribed and edited the letters only to find that they had been heavily censored. Undaunted, she researched the Great War, the Army Medical Department, and gathered her father’s oral version of his father’s adventures, for Granddad had shared them with no one else. Her second novel, For Two Cents, I’ll Go With You is based on ...more

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	The Rogue Queen 3.59 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Two Cents, I'll Go With You 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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'Way back in 2001 when I first started writing, the only other person I knew who wrote was a friend from college. We were both busy raising kids and living life, so we rarely talked about our work, especially since we were limited to regular mail, then email (note, this was a while ago!). Once I started working, I had to move rooms after about 5 years in the building, and the person on the other

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What makes things scary? From our earliest memories as humans living in caves lit only by flickering flames, our deepest fears have inhabited the edges of our perception: what we can see, hear, smell. Logan Castle, the author of Sacred Grounds: The B ...more
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Marcia Maxwell and 1 other person liked Audrey Adkins's review of For Two Cents, I'll Go With You: "This was a great WWI story based on a true story about a young man who enlists in the military and is sent to war. It is a story about Pat, who, after joining the military, is sent to work in evac hospitals. The story tells us about Pat's time in the" Read more of this review »
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Henry and Gwen Henderson are happily married empty nesters, prosperous and respected by church and community. They seem to have it all, but both are hiding dark secrets they're hiding from the other. Then Margot Tanner steps into their lives, looking ...more
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For many of us, our middle school years are (or were) pretty uniformly awful, and for 12 year old Tom Andrews it’s no different. His Mum has died, his dad is planning to marry a perfectly awful woman who despises Tom and his little brother, and Tom’s ...more
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I went into reading Making French Chocolate with eyes wide open, not really knowing what to expect, as I haven't read much in the way of romance novels in many years. As noted in the description, the novel begins in the Jim Crow South, and some event ...more
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As a kid, I read tons and tons of books, and nearly all of them were fiction. As I've gotten older, I've gravitated away from fiction, preferring instead to read biographies and, particularly, memoirs. I find the perspective granted by the author int ...more
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