Nonfiction
Peter the Great
Biographer and novelist Derek Wilson isn’t new to the game of whisking readers off to distant times to focus on…
The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town
As the narrator returns to her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, she has flashbacks of life as she knew it growing…
The Lady in the Tower
The demand for the Tudors seems inexorable. This is a detailed study of the closing days of the life of…
God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
Fed up by Western views of the Crusades as episodes featuring European greed, racism, and religious bigotry unleashed upon an…
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education
This remarkable story is about opportunities that the developed world generally now takes for granted. It serves as a timely…
Jungle Soldier
Lieutenant-Colonel Freddy Spencer Chapman was an infantry officer who survived for more than three years in the jungles of occupied…
1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory
Although this is not a novel, it certainly reads like one. Written in diary form, it covers the events of…
Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family
The author has dedicated this publication to her father, and rightly so. His desire to research and record his family…
Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910
When I first encountered this book, I was intrigued, but a bit embarrassed: I’d never heard of the Paris flood…
Mr. Langshaw’s Square Piano
The author’s search for a second-hand harpsichord on which to play early music led her on a journey that will…
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