2007
I Want to Live
This is the diary of a girl in her teens, writing during the mid-1930s under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nina’s…
The Trojan War : A New History
In this most interesting book, Barry Strauss, an expert in ancient military history, places Homer’s The Iliad in its…
A Pale Horse
Tenth in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, A Pale Horse finds Rutledge searching for a missing man in Berkshire,…
Rome Burning
This is the sequel to MacDougall’s successful debut novel, Romanitas, but sadly I don’t think it makes much sense…
Raleigh’s Page
Andrew Saintleger is twelve, old enough to be apprenticed. His father writes to a childhood friend, the now-famous sea…
The Seventh Well
Editors' choice
The Seventh Well was originally published in East Germany in 1971, but not until its reissue in 2006 did…
Pickle to Pie
The premise of this “based on fact, veiled in fiction” novel is similar to Anne Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson:…
The Tears of Autumn
For Biff and Rosemary Banks, newly wed, their honeymoon in Italy is an adventure, one only improved by the…
Souls of Angels
Sister Ria, a young nun who works with the poor in India, is abruptly called home to Los Angeles because…
Yorkshire Rose
Presumably this will go on the romance shelves in libraries, but it is more a woman’s coming-of-age story than a…
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