2013
The Royal Physician’s Visit
In 1768 a magnetic, handsome German physician named Struensee became royal physician to King Christian VII of Denmark. Struensee was…
Rome: The Art of War
This is the fourth in a series of novels set in the 1st century AD featuring the enigmatic spy Pantera,…
The Golem and the Jinni
Editors' choice
All the world is coming to New York City in 1899, and they are bringing a part of the Old…
Prisoner B-3087
The story begins in 1939 in Krakow. The Nazis are rolling over Poland when ten-year-old Yanek and his family hear…
Dead Born
This superb novel, one in the series of Joan Lock’s Detective Sergeant Best mysteries, was originally published in 2001 and…
The Boleyn King
What if Anne Boleyn had not miscarried of her son and savior in the winter of 1536 and instead had…
Forest Brothers
This debut novel opens in Estonia in 1918, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the country…
Brief Lives that Live Forever
This Russian author writes in French and has been translated into English (are you still with me?). A middle-aged Russian…
The Passions of Dr. Darcy
Dr. George Darcy, uncle to the famous Fitzwilliam Darcy of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, embarks on his career…
The Girl Who Married an Eagle
Julia Newton, a recent American college grad, attends a lecture about missions in Africa and decides she has found her…
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