Nonfiction
The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual
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Though lesser-known than his contemporaries – Faraday, Huxley, Kelvin, Carlyle, and Pasteur – John Tyndall is becoming recognized for achievements in science and other areas. ...Read Review
Yorkshire: A Lyrical History of England’s Greatest County
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Yorkshire arguably is not one county. It has three distinct areas, once known as Ridings (Riding derives from thirding) although, due to government ...Read Review
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Sir Walter Raleigh is given a charter by Elizabeth I, and in 1587, 115 English colonists land on Roanoke Island on what is now the ...Read Review
The Murderer of Warren Street
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This is the true story of a 19th-century revolutionary, but if you didn’t know that at first glance, you would believe it ...Read Review
Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs
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This handsome book presents fifty vignettes (two to five pages each) about courageous mothers. Some are recent and well known—Sojourner Truth, Bella ...Read Review
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story
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The name of the aircraft, the look, even the very sound of it is still remembered, talked of, heard! This book takes the ...Read Review
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
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One of the most famous opening lines in literature: “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.” belongs to one of the best-loved ...Read Review
Sky Girls: The True Story of the First Women’s Cross-Country Air Race
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In 1929, nineteen pilots ventured into the open sky to compete in the first female cross-country air race. This competition captured the attention and ...Read Review
To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape
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In 1649 King Charles I was beheaded in a sad climax to his struggle with Oliver Cromwell’s Puritan government. His eldest son, Charles, ...Read Review
Tynemouth & Wallsend at War 1939-45; From Normandy to Auschwitz; In Hitler’s Shadow: Post-War Germany and the Girls of the BDM; Escaping Has Ceased to Be a Sport: A Soldier’s Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany
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These four books published together by Pen & Sword explore different aspects of WW2, using original documents. Two of them are personal memoirs. ...Read Review
