2007
To Scotland With Love
Lord Gregor MacLean and Venetia Oglivie have been best friends since they were children, so when Venetia gets kidnapped by…
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Misperceptions about Mata Hari abound—many due to the persona that she herself promulgated with convenient lies. Though often thought to…
The Secret Life of Josephine
Lovely Rose of Martinique is sent to pre-revolutionary France to marry Viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais, but her arrogant new husband…
The Kingdom of Bones
Tom Sayers, a former boxer and a member of a British theater troupe, is accused of the serial murders of…
The Historical Epic And Contemporary Hollywood: From Dances With Wolves to Gladiator
This book, by a British film studies lecturer, tries to accomplish many things in its examination of the contemporary epic…
Fire Bell in the Night
Editors' choice
New York Tribune reporter John Sharp arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1850 to cover a trial that will prove…
The Land Of The Silver Apples
This sequel to Newbery Honor author Nancy Farmer’s The Sea of Trolls finds the children of that book going underground…
The Pirate’s Daughter
Errol Flynn’s unexpected appearance in Jamaica is a dream come true for thirteen-year-old Ida Joseph, but three years pass before…
Rogue Officer
This is the fifth book in the ‘Fancy Jack’ Crossman series, following the adventures of a British soldier through the…
Dizzy City
Benedict Cramb is a young Londoner born into poverty who learned to use his cunning and wits to claw his…
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