Belle Cora
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410469106 (1410469107)
Publish date: May 28th 2014
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Edition language: English
Philip Margulies’ novel, Belle Cora, is about a woman who loves so fiercely, so loyally, that she spends most of her first 33 years of life trying to save them from themselves. Belle Cora is based on a real woman who popped up a couple of times in the history of early San Francisco; Margulies took t...
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Read from August 13 to September 14, 2014 Wow!!! Perfect!! I absolutely adored this book! It's going on my All time Faves shelf right now. Do I recommend it? Yes! READ. THIS. BOOK. It's historical fiction at its very best.
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