2012
The Right-hand Shore
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The novel begins in 1920 as Mary Bayly, the owner of Mason’s Retreat, a large farm on Maryland’s eastern shore along Chesapeake ...Read Review
The Penny Bangle
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This is the third novel of a trilogy, and the first I’ve read. In 1942, Cassie Taylor is sick of the devastation from ...Read Review
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
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In 1948, Marie Tharp walked into the Lamont Geological Laboratory at Columbia University and demanded a job. At the time, few women worked in ...Read Review
September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
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Toward the end of the summer of 1944, the Allied forces were hopeful about an imminent victory over the Third Reich. Operation Market Garden ...Read Review
Rome’s Executioner: Vespasian II
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Rome’s Executioner, set in AD 30, is the second novel in a saga narrating the rise of Vespasian in the Roman world. Vespasian, ...Read Review
The Tintern Treasure
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Roger Chapman is a peddler who has, quite by accident, become an agent of King Richard III. His reputation as the king’s ...Read Review
Empire of the Moghul: The Tainted Throne
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1606. It is five months since the death of the Moghul emperor Akbar, and his son Jahangir is crowned as ruler of the empire. ...Read Review
Miss Lizzie’s War
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While Richmond, Virginia suffers through the American Civil War, the wealthy Elizabeth van Lew supports the war effort—for the Union. Starting by ...Read Review
Imperial Scandal
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In Brussels fresh from the intrigues of the Congress of Vienna, British agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife Suzanne investigate a young lady’...Read Review
Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art
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Begun as a history of the color blue, this book evolves into a detective romp through Montmartre, Paris, historical haunt of artists. After ...Read Review