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The Model Spy

Based on the True Story of Toto Koopman's World War II Ventures

By: Maryka Biaggio

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The Model Spy

Based on the True Story of Toto Koopman's World War II Ventures

By: Maryka Biaggio

Celebrated model Toto Koopman had beauty, brains, and fame. When the winds of war swept Europe, she threw herself into the world of espionage. She spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance while being hunted by the Axis.

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256

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Milford House Press

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ISBN 10

1620067803

ISBN 13

9781620067802

Parlor Games

A Novel

By: Maryka Biaggio

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Parlor Games

A Novel

By: Maryka Biaggio

Based on a true story, comes a sweeping historical novel about a beautiful con artist whose turn-of-the-century escapades take her around the world as she's doggedly pursued by a Pinkerton Agency detective The novel opens in 1917 with our cunning protagonist, May Dugas, standing trial for extortion. As the trial unfolds, May tells her version of events. In 1887, at the tender age of eighteen, May ventures to Chicago in hopes of earning enough money to support her family. Circumstances force her to take up residence at the city’s most infamous bordello, but May soon learns to employ her considerable feminine wiles to extract not only sidelong looks but also large sums of money from the men she encounters. Insinuating herself into Chicago’s high society, May lands a well-to-do fiancé—until, that is, a Pinkerton Agency detective named Reed Doherty intervenes and summarily foils the engagement. Unflappable May quickly rebounds, elevating seduction and social climbing to an art form as she travels the world, eventually marrying a wealthy Dutch Baron. Unfortunately, Reed Doherty is never far behind and continues to track May in a delicious cat-and-mouse game as the newly-minted Baroness’s misadventures take her from San Francisco to Shanghai to London and points in between. The Pinkerton Agency really did dub May the “Most Dangerous Woman,” branding her a crafty blackmailer and ruthless seductress. To many, though, she was the most glamorous woman to grace high society. Was the real May Dugas a cold-hearted swindler or simply a resourceful provider for her poor family? As the narrative bounces back and forth between the trial taking place in 1917 and May’s devious but undeniably entertaining path to the courtroom—hoodwinking and waltzing her way through the gilded age and into the twentieth century—we're left to ponder her guilt as we move closer to finding out what fate ultimately has in store for our irresistible adventuress.

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388

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Anchor

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ISBN 10

0385536232

ISBN 13

9780385536233

3rd & Oak: Stories

By: Maryka Biaggio,Kerry Cathers,Elyse Garrett,Sue Ann Higgens,Susan Kraus,Sally K Lehman,Trish MacEnulty,Katie Nelson Stone,Micah Thorp,Annie Tupek,Fuf Vollmayer,Sharon Woodard

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3rd & Oak: Stories

By: Maryka Biaggio,Kerry Cathers,Elyse Garrett,Sue Ann Higgens,Susan Kraus,Sally K Lehman,Trish MacEnulty,Katie Nelson Stone,Micah Thorp,Annie Tupek,Fuf Vollmayer,Sharon Woodard

How many stories can a single urban edifice inspire? The writers of the Novelitics Writers Collective found quite a few at the corner of 3rd & Oak. As it turns out, 3rd & Oak is the place to find hidden compartments from which to view the neighbors, demons who create graffiti and demons who spew grief, portal-traveling witches, stolen bags of gold, lost sisters, and maybe even the man who is trying to kill you. It’s the place to remember the love of your life, the girl who got away, the home you’ve always dreamed of, and Barry the Abominable Bozeman . . . but, for heaven’s sake, no union plumbers. Check out the array of stories one address can inspire in this delightful short story anthology.

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232

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Sycamore Creek Press

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ISBN 13

9798991259118

Eden Waits

A Novel Based on the True Story of Michigan's Utopian Community, Hiawatha Colony

By: Maryka Biaggio

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Eden Waits

A Novel Based on the True Story of Michigan's Utopian Community, Hiawatha Colony

By: Maryka Biaggio

Eden Waits is based on the true story of Michigan's utopian experiment. In 1893, financial panic imperils the settlement homesteaded by Abraham and Elizabeth Byers. Abraham, a preacher and self-proclaimed man of the people, rails against greed and corruption and launches Hiawatha Colony, a product-sharing community designed to support its members through self-sufficiency. But can this cooperative community withstand internal strife, the harsh wilds of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the antagonism of the outside world? When discord rocks the community, Abraham must choose between dissolving the colony and compromising the ideals that elevated him to its patriarch. Although numerous utopian communities were formed in the United States in the nineteenth century, there are few accounts of the day-to-day life and challenges faced by them. Abraham and Elizabeth were in their advanced years when they homesteaded acreage in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. What drove them to risk so much to build a community of kin and like-minded idealists? This carefully researched historical novel explores the struggle between ideals and practicality and the collision of political and religious realms. The events bear surprising parallels to today's climate of polarization, questions about leadership, and concerns over corporate power.

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