2012

The Springsweet

By Saundra Mitchell - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

“That I went a little mad, I could not deny.” Saundra Mitchell’s opening line of The Springsweet pulls in readers, even those ...Read Review

Midnight in Peking

By Paul French - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

In 1937, as the Japanese mustered to invade China, the body of an English girl, Pamela Werner, was found in the badlands of Peking (...Read Review

Rebel

By Jack Whyte - Published 2012

Genres:

Adventure

The first of The Bravehearts Chronicles goes from a horrific prologue into a narrative of two boys: orphaned, abused and fleeing for their ...Read Review

Keeping Bad Company (A Liberty Lane Mystery)

By Caro Peacock - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

At a gathering in London just prior to the First Opium War, “private inquiry agent” Liberty Lane is thrilled to meet her older ...Read Review

The Boy Who Stole the Leopard’s Spots

By Tamar Myers - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1935, in the Belgian Congo, two young boys of the Bapende tribe participate in the ancient tradition of cannibalism. Twins, one of them ...Read Review

Letter from a Stranger

By Barbara Taylor Bradford - Published 2012

Genres:

Romance

Justine Nolan, a prizewinning documentary filmmaker, receives a shocking letter that will change her life forever and her family’s lives as well. ...Read Review

Dust Girl

By Sarah Zettel - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

On April 14, 1935, the worst dust storm ever recorded blows across Kansas. That is the day that Calliope LeRoux’s mother disappears. It is ...Read Review

Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

By Kate Summerscale - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

Isabella Robinson was a free-spirited young woman forced into a cold second marriage with an unpleasant, unfaithful man, Henry Robinson. She spends the ...Read Review

Garden of Madness

By Tracy L. Higley - Published 2012

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

This book is billed as Christian and historical. It is neither. There is not a single Christian in it, and the historical anachronisms ...Read Review

Murder by the Book

By Susanna Gregory - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Matthew Bartholomew has returned from his escapades in York to begin the final revisions with his students at his college in Cambridge. The ...Read Review