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Karleen Koen
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Christmas is the time when we scurry home……actually or in memory.
And what is home? It’s where we come from, what we embrace or flee, what has shaped us. It can be safe, or it can be dysfunctional, but at Christmas, we’re drawn back. Why?
Is it yearning? Is it idealism? Is it instinctive, the way swallows return to Capistrano?Do we search for childhood innocence, for sweetness, for wonder? Do we...
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Through a Glass Darkly
— published 1986 — 22 editions |
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Dark Angels
— published 2006 — 17 editions |
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Now Face To Face
— published 1996 — 14 editions |
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Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV
— published 2011 — 12 editions |
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Through A Glass Darkly: Part 1 Of 3
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Through A Glass Darkly Part 2 Of 2
— published 1986 |
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El oscuro espejo de los días felices
— published 1986 |
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"Heaven is a bookstore wrote: "Hey I'm Heidi. Had no idea how much I enjoyed historical fiction until I devoured the two books by Alma Katsu. Amazing i...more
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I love Historical Fiction!
Karleen Koen did not disappoint. Before Versailles is about a young lady by the name of Louise. Louise comes to court by way of family connections and becomes a lady in waiting to one of the princesses. Louise soon learns... " Read more of this review » |
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I understand now why Koen has such a devoted following. This deliciously huge novel has a fantastic cast, a fabulous setting, delicious intrigue, romance, and drama. Set during 1661, after Louis' prime minister Cardinal Mazarin died, the novel fol...
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Since Through a Glass Darkly I have been hoping for Karleen Koen to devote an entire novel to Louis XIV (I am a passionate fan of the Sun King). And now here it is!
The action of the novel is concentrated in a very short time, the few months that i... " Read more of this review » |
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“...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.”
― Karleen Koen, Through a Glass Darkly
― Karleen Koen, Through a Glass Darkly
“When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child but when I grew up I put away childish things; for now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face!”
― Karleen Koen, Through a Glass Darkly
― Karleen Koen, Through a Glass Darkly
“Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.”
― Karleen Koen, Through a Glass Darkly
― Karleen Koen, Through a Glass Darkly
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