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Barbara hambly attended the university of california and spent a year at the university of bordeaux obtaining a masters degree in medieval history. Author of the improbable adventures of sherlock holmes, days of the dead, renfield, days of the dead, the ladies of mandrigyn, the emancipators wife, wet grave, dragonsbane barbara hambly open library. I picked this up at a thrift store not expecting much, but it turned out to be a great find. The emancipators wife a novel of mary todd lincoln ebook by barbara hambly. Barbara hambly is the author of the emancipators wife, a finalist for the michael shaara award for excellence in civil war fiction.
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