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Shadow of Night
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by Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
Reading for the 3rd time
read in June 2013
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antipatz antipatz said: " Its a good thing i've watched a lot of movies about elizabeth i or i would've been at a loss in reading this book.

I searched Harkness and found out that she is indeed a scholar of history, alchemy and yes, magic. If an author writes as he speaks the
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