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Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon
What could a brilliant, wealthy young woman do in Victorian England if marriage did not entice her, and domestic spinsterhood…
Winnie and Wolf
The title refers to Winifred Wagner, the English wife of Richard Wagner’s son Siegfried, and Wolf, the self-chosen nickname of…
The Night of the Burning
This novel tells the true story of Devorah and Nechama Lehrman, the only survivors of a massacre of the Jews…
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
There was a time when the mention of India, and specifically England’s administration of the Subcontinent, was a matter of…
Tree Of Smoke
William “Skip” Sands is training for his CIA job as a spy in Psychological Operations against the Viet Cong in…
The Religion
British novelist Tim Willocks is good at evoking the unfamiliar, so perhaps it’s inevitable that he should turn eventually to…
Yankee Girl
Yankee Girl is about a young American girl, Alice, who has just moved to Mississippi from her home in Chicago.…
Ordinary Heroes
Stewart Dubinsky’s father never spoke of his experiences during WWII. After his death Stewart sorts through his deceased father’s papers…
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