Kristen Hannum
Tangled Ashes
This book combines a contemporary inspirational plotline and World War II via two stories that come together at the end.…
Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Brian Fagan is a marvel, not just in his encyclopedic knowledge of history, archaeology, and anthropology, but in the way…
Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From
Davenport-Hines has written a half-dozen of masterful biographies and histories, many of them set around the time of the Titanic’s…
The Far Side of the Sky
Author Daniel Kalla, an ER physician in Vancouver, B.C., drew upon his own family’s heritage to write this novel of…
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Madeleine Albright has written a book that mixes family memoir with Czech/European history, heavy on the history. Albright’s father, Josef…
The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo – and the Sacrifice that Forged a Nation
Donovan, who wrote A Terrible Glory, called the “definitive” history of Custer and the battle of Little Big Horn, has…
HHhH
HHhH (“Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich,” that is, “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”) tells the thrilling story of Slovak Jozef Gabćik…
Daughter of Silence
Should you be looking for a short and intelligent novel of meditative prose poetry about torture, silence, and totalitarianism, Daughter…
Miss Fuller
Annie, the narrator of Miss Fuller, a fictitious adopted sister of Henry David Thoreau, explains, “All other destinations were known…
The Kingmaker’s Daughter
Editors' choice
Philippa Gregory is one of historical fiction’s superstars, and The Kingmaker’s Daughter shows why. There’s not a moment – not…
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