Bethany Skaggs
The Blood Confession
This disturbingly dark young adult novel is based on the life of Countess Erzsébet Báthory, the notorious female Dracula who…
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
In this revisionist, popular history, Philbrick takes on Plymouth, the Pilgrims, and King Philip’s War. Unlike the harshness of life…
A Play Of Knaves
A Play of Knaves, the third in the Joliffe Mysteries series (a spin-off of Frazer’s well-known Sister Frevisse mysteries) finds…
Hood: Book One of the Raven Trilogy
Lawhead’s take on the Robin Hood legend is original, engaging, and unorthodox, for this Robin Hood isn’t an Englishman in…
Thunderstruck
Larson (of Devil in the White City fame) again uses his trademark dual storylines to chronicle Guglielmo Marconi and the…
The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life
Could there be a new biography that reveals anything unexpected about the Founding Father? Possibly, but this isn’t it. Unger…
The Temple Dancer
In the mid-17th century Portuguese colony of Goa, beautiful, sheltered Lucinda Dasana is heir to the family fortune. But…
The Last Boleyn
. (Prev. pub. as Passion’s Reign, Kensington, 1983) Mary Boleyn, Anne’s long-eclipsed sister, has lately had her own surge of…
Bones of the Barbary Coast
The skeleton of a victim of the 1906 earthquake is uncovered during a San Francisco historic home remodel and…
Captain John Smith : Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream
Books about both John Smith and the early colonization efforts at Jamestown are numerous, and this book doesn’t cover…
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