2013
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
During the Great Depression, a wealthy family is shattered by a daughter’s indiscretion, and as a result she is sent…
The Well
There seems to be a spate of religious historical novels being published about marginal biblical characters. Considering the paucity of…
Blood Between Queens
The Thornleigh series continues with this fifth installment in which Richard Thornleigh’s ward, Justine Grenville, is entrusted with a delicate…
The Wells
The first of a series to be called the Hope Trilogy, The Wells is a long, well-written read, a lovely blend…
Song Hunter
40,000 BC, and an Ice Age looms. The Stonemen, a small Neanderthal clan, have just killed a mammoth in preparation…
Sidney Chambers and the Perils of Night
This is the second in a series set in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Grantchester, England, featuring Canon…
Daughter of Jerusalem
Mary Magdalene, or Mary of Magdala as she is known here, narrates the story of her life. As a girl,…
Harvest
This affecting novel offers a glimpse into the life of a remote English village poised between the feudalism of the…
Dr. Brinkley’s Tower
The tower of the title is for radio broadcast, erected just over the Mexican border from Texas in 1931. The lives…
The Borgias: The Hidden History
As a follow-up to his previous book, The Tudors: A World Undone, Meyer brings his considerable skills to another infamous…
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