2011
City of Refuge
Diana Wilder’s Police Commander Khonsu joins the surprisingly crowded ranks of fictional ancient Egyptian protagonists who are working stiffs, but…
Sweet Glory
This award-winning young adult novel, set during the American Civil War, tells of Jana Brady, a tomboy whose parents decide…
The Year-God’s Daughter
Despite the fifth-century Greek statue on the cover, The Year-God’s Daughter takes place a thousand years earlier, in Crete. Aridela,…
Nolichuck! TJ’s Wild Frontier Adventure
As a result of a bitter divorce, 14-year-old TJ lives alone with his father. He is experiencing boring studies, indifferent…
Children of Apollo
Children of Apollo is the first book in a series featuring a grizzled but hopeful veteran of the third century…
Tyburn (The Highwaymen)
This e-book is the story of a highwayman and his female companion who made English roads unsafe at the end…
Strategos: Born in the Borderlands
As in Doherty’s superb novel Legionary, so too in Strategos: the story is set during a period of Roman history…
Life of a Sailor
Join the military and see the world! That was certainly true for young Frederick Chamier when he signed up with…
The Girl on the Cliff
Riley’s second novel uses a familiar but intriguing device in which secrets of long ago impact a love story today.…
The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England
Theodosius Boughton: youthful heir to a baronetcy, womanizing ne’er-do-well, a year from his inheritance … and dead. This nonfiction work…
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