2010
Silver Rain
After losing her house and her father to the Depression, 11-year-old Elsie moves into the garage behind their Vancouver house…
When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
I’m told the author of this book would like to see this volume shelved in history rather than science fiction/alternate…
Mornings in Jenin
The novel opens with the olive harvest of 1941 in the Palestinian village of Ein Hod. The pastoral idyll is…
The Crimean War: A History
When asked about the Crimean War, many readers may be able to recall only the barest of details, such as…
Bright Young Things
1929 New York. Prohibition and the Jazz Age are in full swing, and three young girls meet. Eighteen-year-old Cordelia longs…
Belle’s Song
I love Katie Grant’s writing. Her characters are very real, flawed, humorous – likeable. In this novel, she gives herself…
Irrepressible Conflict
The tension arising between the North and South in the years before the American Civil War was intensified by John…
$teel Dreams
Shortly after the 1928 stock market collapse, James Campbell, the founder of Youngstown Sheet and Tube (S&T) and Frank Purnell,…
The Tapestry of Bronze Series: The Children of Tantalus; The Road to Thebes; The Arrows of Artemis
The long and complicated story Grossack and Underwood unfold in their thrilling and absorbing trio of books, The Children of…
When Ireland Fell Silent
The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52, which decimated the main food crop throughout Ireland, was blamed on the potato blight,…
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