Multi-Period
The House at Sea’s End
The ever-encroaching sea on the coast of Norfolk, England uncovers six skeletons, bound, shot, and hidden in a deep cove.…
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
Crowley relies heavily on primary sources as he recounts Venice’s economic rise from the time of the Fourth Crusade to…
A Place of Secrets
This story starts in the present as Jude, a young widow who works at an auction house, is sent to…
Girl Reading
Ward’s debut novel is a brave, original effort. The concept is irresistible: Seven girls/women read while living out a portion…
The Last Romanov
We know Tsarina Alexandra’s lady-in-waiting was with the Romanov family at the time of their assassination in 1918. Mossanen has…
The Fighting Irish
For four hundred years Irish men have sought bounty in the armies of foreign powers. Known as the Wild Geese,…
The Promise
This is an outstanding historical saga, on a par with Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers, in its family complexity. In 1948,…
Presenting History: Past and Present
In this insightful book, Peter J. Beck, an emeritus professor of history in the UK, cites data indicating that both…
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
In 1923, Evangeline English is stagnating in gray, sedentary Dorset. When her sister Lizzie joins Millicent Frost, a charismatic missionary,…
Betrayal
Lydia Hamilton is a hospital office worker in present-day Canada, secure, grounded, in love—and tormented at night by vivid dreams…
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