Harcourt
The Nature of Monsters
This is Clare Clark’s second novel and, like her first, The Great Stink, it is immersed in the filth, chaos…
Redemption
Rarely has New Orleans appeared as dark and dangerous as it does in Turner’s “Big Easy” of 1913. Francis Muldoon,…
The Third Heaven Conspiracy
Florence, 1300. The city teeters on the edge of the Renaissance, and is trying to reinvent itself as a place…
Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
This is the story of the rollicking world of the great American breweries and those that created them, from poor…
The Mislaid Magician
It has been ten years since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James in The Grand Tour. With budding families,…
An Unlikely Friendship
Mary Todd suffers through the loss of her beloved mother and endures the outsider status in her father’s new family,…
In The Belly Of The Bloodhound
In L.A. Meyer’s fourth installment of this swashbuckling series set in the early 1800s, street-wise Jacky Faber is once again…
Loving Will Shakespeare
Just before the plague returns to England, seven-year-old Agnes (Anne) Hathaway and her family are invited to a christening by…
Much Ado About Grubstake
In the 19th century, penny dreadfuls were sensational tales of crime, adventure, or horror. These inexpensive texts, printed on cheap…
The Whistling Season
When Paul’s widower father decides to answer an advertisement in the Westwater Gazette (“Can’t cook but doesn’t bite: Housekeeping position…
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