Bruce Macbain
Music of a Life
In this densely written novella, Russian author Andrei Makine evokes the grim, gray, repressive atmosphere of Soviet Russia from the…
The Hunger Angel
The fact that this book’s German title, Atemschaukel, translates as something like “Breath Swing,” while the British edition is titled…
Sacred Treason
This is the first volume in a trilogy of political thrillers set in Elizabethan England. The protagonist, William Harley, although…
Every Man for Himself
This is a fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic, originally published in 1996 and now reissued, as have…
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
In the 1970s, a handwritten manuscript of some 4,000 pages (of which only a small portion was previously known) came…
Among the Wonderful
This beautifully written literary novel takes us inside the strange, claustrophobic world of P.T. Barnum’s Museum of Wonders – that…
A Spark of Death
Pajer’s debut novel, the first in a proposed series, introduces us to an unlikely sleuth. Benjamin Bradshaw is a professor…
In the Garden of Beasts
“Once, at the dawn of a very dark time, an American father and daughter found themselves suddenly transported from their…
In the Grip of the Minotaur
The story is set in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, where King Minos rules the sea with his fleet and terrorizes…
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
When Wayne B. Wheeler died in 1927, an obituary in the Washington Post stated, “No other private citizen of the…
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