Nonfiction
In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
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Seymour tells the stories of Annabella Milbanke’s short-lived marriage to Byron, and of their daughter, Ada. We are gripped by the spectacle ...Read Review
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts: A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks
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On 24 September 1851, 14-year old Sarah Watts was brutally murdered at a farmhouse near Frome in Somerset while her parents were at market. At ...Read Review
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures
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The popular historical novelist and adventure writer Wilbur Smith, now in his eighties, has finally told his own story. On Leopard Rock is ...Read Review
Chinese Whispers: In Search of Ivy
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The story of the Lai family from China to Australia is a fascinating account that begins with a brief overview of Chinese history ...Read Review
Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from The Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
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As World War I was ending, influenza killed 20-50 million people worldwide. The H5N1 strain of the familiar virus attacked, seemingly preferred, ...Read Review
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
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This non-fiction book reads more vividly than many novels. The husband hunters might appear to be wealthy American young women hoping to marry ...Read Review
The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis
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What kind of man secures a royal decree to lock up his pregnant daughter and ship her to the colonies? Beauty and cruelty ...Read Review
Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America And Europe
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Ferling’s new entry explores the vision of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe of an independent America and a democratic Europe. ...Read Review
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
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July 17, 1918 is the day in Russian history when the assassination/murder of the Romanovs took place. The former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, ...Read Review
In Harm’s Way: JFK, World War II, and the Heroic Rescue of PT 109
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Children/Young AdultNonfiction
For future president John F. Kennedy, the night of August 2, 1943 would cement his future as a war hero and leader. It would also ...Read Review
