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  <about><![CDATA[A resident of Los Angeles, Noelle Sickels grew up in northern New Jersey, the locale of   The Medium   (available from Five Star Publishing),  a tale set against a backdrop of home front sacrifices and romances during World War II and featuring a dynamic young heroine who must come to grips with her exceptional ability to foresee the future. Although The Medium is Sickels' third historical novel, she never set out to be a historical novelist. In each case, she was seduced by the germ of a compelling story that refused translation into a contemporary setting. Her fate was sealed when she became irretrievably fascinated by the intricate ways in which large historical events play out in the individual lives of ordinary people. Sickels holds degrees in sociology and in elementary education. She has been a teacher in many milieus, none of them a traditional classroom. Her students have included migrant workers, emotionally disturbed adolescents, pregnant women, senior citizens, and pre-schoolers and their parents. Her previous novels include the critically-acclaimed    Walking West and    The Shopkeeper's Wife.]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[In the wet spring of 1852, a small band of Indiana farm families sets off for California, lured west by the promise of a better life.  Men, women, and children, the Muller party crosses treacherous rivers, slogs through mud and thunderstorms, and hauls wagons up and down mountains and over baking deserts in a seven-month journey across our raw continent.  <p>Among them is Alice Muller, a reluctant traveler forced to leave home by her husband Henry's dreams of prosperity.  But the Mullers greatly underestimate the hardships they will face, and it is ultimately Alice who must draw on the deepest reserves of body and soul to lead the little group of bone-weary emigrants through their final miles.  In doing so, Alice changes from a dutiful farm wife into a woman capable of deep commitment, strong actions, and profound self-knowledge.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 1886 Philadelphia, Hannah Willer begins employment as a maid for Isabelle Martin, the pregnant wife of a prosperous shopkeeper. When the man dies under suspicious circumstances, Hanna finds herself thrust into the midst of a murder trial.]]>
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