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Apr 6 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Library
An index of fiction for paid subscribers
Oct 12, 2025 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Round-Up: March 2026
A monthly miscellany of interesting links and tidbits
Mar 30 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Last Loss
A 1930s love story
Mar 20 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Round-Up: February 2026
A monthly miscellany of links and tidbits
Feb 27 • Elisabeth Grace Foley

Fiction

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The Last Loss
A 1930s love story
Mar 20 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
In Print: Groverville's Own
New short story in a Saturday Evening Post anthology
Feb 17 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Reconstruction
a historical flash fiction
Feb 4 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Outlaw's Wife: Part II
The second and final part of a Western short story
Nov 18, 2025 • Elisabeth Grace Foley

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In Print: Groverville's Own
New short story in a Saturday Evening Post anthology
Feb 17 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Whole Town's Talking About Westerns
What they said, and what I thought
Feb 11 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Reconstruction
a historical flash fiction
Feb 4 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Round-Up: January 2026
A monthly miscellany of links and tidbits
Jan 29 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
My Year in Books: 2025
A look back at what I read last year
Jan 19 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Top 5 Movies (and TV) of 2025
The best new-to-me cinema of the year
Jan 13 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Books
Land of Hills and Valleys
A classic murder mystery set in 1930s Wyoming
Bridge to Trouble
A romantic-suspense adventure novella set in the Montana mountains of 1920
A Sidekick's Tale
A hilarious Western screwball comedy of family feuds and fearsome aunts
The Mrs. Meade Mysteries
Short cozy historical mysteries featuring a lady detective in Edwardian-era Colorado
Historical Fairytales
Cinderella on the prairie, Red Riding Hood among outlaws...fairytales retold historically
The Smoking Iron and Other Stories
Classic Western short stories
Wanderlust Creek and Other Stories
More Western short stories
Outlaw Fever: Five Western Stories
Still more Western short stories
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Literature

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The Whole Town's Talking About Westerns
What they said, and what I thought
Feb 11 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
My Year in Books: 2025
A look back at what I read last year
Jan 19 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Top Ten Books Read in 2025
The best books I read this year
Jan 5 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Snow Between the Pages
The best books with lots of wintry weather
Dec 8, 2025 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Ten Fictional Female Detectives From Long Before Miss Marple
Forgotten lady detectives from the early days of the mystery genre
Oct 6, 2025 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Alternate-History Book Lists
The best books I read through the years...with hindsight
Aug 7, 2025 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Letter to Meredith
A belated epistle and tribute
May 8, 2025 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
Adventure is Out There
My two cents' worth of contribution to the "men don't read" discourse
Apr 14, 2025 • Elisabeth Grace Foley
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