Nonfiction

Darwin’s Ghosts

By Rebecca Stott - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

Darwin was famously troubled by his discovery of evolution by survival of the fittest, which set him at odds with a great many ...Read Review

Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

By Guo Jian (trans.) - By Stacy Mosher (trans.) - By Yang Jisheng - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

This extraordinary and important book is based on 20 years of research on the horrific failure of the Great Leap Forward in China in ...Read Review

The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr

By R. Kent Newmyer - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

This work covers a landmark case in American constitutional history, one in which Aaron Burr, an ex-vice president, was accused by President Jefferson ...Read Review

Patton: Blood, Guts, and Prayer

By Michael Keane - Published 2012

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MilitaryNonfiction

In the acknowledgements, Michael Keane describes his work as focused on General George S. Patton’s “formative and guiding principles”. To accomplish this, ...Read Review

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household

By Kate Hubbard - Published 2012Published 2013

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Nonfiction

Queen Victoria presided over a vast household of servants, but this is not a book about the drudgery of scullery maids and stable ...Read Review

The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

By John Kelly - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

John Kelly’s account of the Irish potato famine is a thoroughly researched and smoothly written story of the events that led to ...Read Review

Charles Dickens in Love

By Robert Garnett - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

Garnett’s aim is to put the women Charles Dickens loved—Maria Beadnell, two Hogarth sisters (neither of them his wife), and Ellen ...Read Review

The Joy of Sexus: Lust, Love, & Longing in the Ancient World

By Vicki León - Published 2013Published 2013-01-29

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Nonfiction

Anyone who reads or writes about the ancient world has to wonder how human sexuality was expressed in those days.  Was it overt, ...Read Review

All the King’s Men

By Saul David - Published 2012

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MilitaryNonfiction

This is a history of the British Army, beginning with the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685 and ending with the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. ...Read Review

Journeys on the Silk Road: Desert Explorer, Buddha’s Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World’s Oldest Printed Book

By Conrad Walters - By Joyce Morgan - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

Sir Marc Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born British foreign service archaeologist who led early 1900s expeditions in central Asia, could have been part of ...Read Review