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Karleen Koen

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Born

New York City, The United States

Website

http://www.karleenkoen.net/index.htm

Genre

Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Romance

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Daphne du Maurier, Winston Graham, Georgette Heyer ...more

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March 2010

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My childhood was filled with glorious books, Little Women, Lad A Dog, Black Beauty, Little House on the Prairie, Caddie Woodlawn. They were as real to me as the life around me, a lower middle class one in a small oil refinery town in Texas. My grandfather, an invalid, was a huge fan of the writers Frank Slaughter, Frank Yerby, and Zane Grey. By the time I learned to read, I was sneaking his square, cheap (a dime, I think) paperbacks off and reading them. Pirates. Passion. History. It has never occurred to me to write anything but historicals, a kind of time travel into other minds, other lands, other eras, other cultures, other worlds. That's what I wish for my readers, that my books take them far away into another place and time and that t ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 22,534 ratings · 1,852 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Through a Glass Darkly (Tamworth Saga, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 11,394 ratings — published 1986 — 8 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
	Dark Angels (Tamworth Saga #1) 3.93 avg rating — 4,709 ratings — published 2006 — 32 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
	Now Face to Face (Tamworth Saga, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 3,360 ratings — published 1995 — 31 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
	Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV 3.81 avg rating — 2,974 ratings — published 2011 — 20 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
	Through A Glass Darkly: Part 1 Of 3 4.31 avg rating — 104 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
	Through A Glass Darkly Part 2 Of 2 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 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
	Through A Glass Darkly: Part 2 Of 3 4.25 avg rating — 8 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
	Through A Glass Darkly: Part 3 Of 3 3.67 avg rating — 3 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
	The Tamworth Trilogy (Tamworth #1-3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Through a Glass Darkly-V1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 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

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The last place my Mom and Dad lived in before he died was out in the country, near Lake Fork, Texas. There was a big plate-glass window in front of which Dad had hung bird feeders. Among the many birds who winged in were cardinals, crimson feathers startling, vivid, unforgettable. Whenever I see cardinals, real or otherwise, I think of Dad, I think of that place, a home place for him, a vision

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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

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“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

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“I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other.”
― Karleen Koen, Dark Angels

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Which book would you like to read for our September 15 - October 15 European Royalty group read?

To Be Queen: A Novel of the Early Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Christy English

25 votes, 45.5%

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser

17 votes, 30.9%

Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV by Karleen Koen

13 votes, 23.6%

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