2013
Out of the Black Land
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Kerry Greenwood is known for Jazz Age mysteries, but Out of the Black Land is a different animal. Eighteenth dynasty Egypt is portrayed ...Read Review
Roses Have Thorns
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Elizabeth I is on the throne, and we see her from the point of view of young Elin von Snakenborg, who visited England ...Read Review
Paris
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Rutherfurd, an author known for his multigenerational epics set in some of the world’s most storied locales, tackles the City of Light ...Read Review
Where the Light Falls
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Keenum’s ambitious first novel opens in 1878, when Jeanette Palmer, an aspiring artist, convinces her parents to send her to Paris to study. ...Read Review
The Great Deception
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A few years after WWII, Shelly and her husband Cole have settled on a farm southwest of Sydney. Knowing little about what her ...Read Review
Jackson Hole Journey
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Lovely young Francesca di Paioli has come a long way from New York to Wyoming to work as a chef at a Jackson ...Read Review
Ashton Park
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From 1916 to 1923, the Danforth family of Ashton Park, a stately manor in Lancashire, confronts war and class prejudices. The youngest daughter loves the ...Read Review
The Last Telegram
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In England in 1938, 18-year-old Lily Verner has exciting plans to travel to Switzerland. Then, upon returning home from Vienna, her brother tells her ...Read Review
The Center of the World
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J. M. W. Turner, the famed 19th-century British artist, is a master of color with a fiercely independent and iconoclastic personality. This is ...Read Review
Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction
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Children/Young AdultNonfiction
Meaningful critical treatments of children’s literature are all too rare, and close examinations of children’s historical fiction are rarer still. With ...Read Review