Nonfiction
The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth’s Court
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So much has been written about the life and times, love affairs and political maneuvers of Elizabeth I. Yet few books have approached ...Read Review
With Autumn’s Return (Westward Winds, Book 3)
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Elizabeth Harding is newly arrived to Cheyenne and the town’s first lady doctor. Although attracted to the handsome attorney who shares her ...Read Review
The Girls of Atomic City
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With a personal interest in this topic (my grandfather worked at Oak Ridge until his retirement in the mid 1960s), I was eager ...Read Review
My War Diary, 1914-1918
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Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of The Great War, this is a colour reproduction of the diary kept by Ethel Bilbrough ...Read Review
Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
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Leach’s painstakingly documented ode to the American lepidopterists of the late 19th century teems with both science and humanism. An amateur collector ...Read Review
Europe: A History
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This is a reissue of a book originally published in 1996, with a second preface added in 1997. Disappointingly, given everything that has happened in ...Read Review
Red Nile:
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Twigger treats us to an entertaining and idiosyncratic journey from prehistoric and ancient times right up to the Arab Spring. This is a ...Read Review
How Paris Became Paris
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Everyone knows that Paris looks like it does because of Baron Haussmann, the 19th-century civil servant who broadened the City of Light’s ...Read Review
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
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Throw a love story into a war zone, and you’ll likely have a riveting tale. Toss in Ernest Hemingway and base it ...Read Review
Murder on the Home Front
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First published in 1955 as Evidence for the Crown, Murder on the Home Front is the World War II memoir of Molly Lefebure, a ...Read Review
