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Praise for The Glass Harmonica
"...a scholarly Fifty Shades of Grey."
—Rebecca Rego Barry, Fine Books Magazine
Read more reviews."Temptations is a fun, fast read with tons of beautiful illustrations...But what’s most striking... is the way the book points out our misconceptions of a sexually repressed national past."    —Rosalyn Sternberg, Kinsey Confidential    Read more reviews.
"The ebook is ...an introduction to some of the best readings on these topics."    —Elaine Jarvik, The Salt Lake Tribune    Read more reviews.
"Those who think of the 1760s as an era of widespread chastity should brace themselves for surprise before reading Temptations..."    —Rosalyn Sternberg, Kinsey Confidential    Read more reviews.
Music, love, virtue, sex, desire – it all comes together in The Glass Harmonica, a knock-out historical novel."    —Ngaire Atmore, New Zealand Herald    Buy now
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[A] provocative novel by an elegant writer …"    —Jim Cullen, History News Network    Buy now
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