Phyllis T. Smith
Bristol House
Beverly Swerling’s latest work is a gripping dual-period novel that is partly a ghost story. Events in Tudor London affect…
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
This extraordinary and important book is based on 20 years of research on the horrific failure of the Great Leap…
The Painted Bridge
In 1859 London, Anna Palmer is committed to an insane asylum by her minister husband. She is not psychotic but…
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked the Nation
This highly readable, absorbing work of social history focuses on one small White House dinner party and its aftermath. In…
Dorchester Terrace
In 1896, Thomas Pitt deals with the challenges of becoming chief of Scotland Yard’s Central Branch. With the support of…
Slant of Light
Just before the Civil War, Turner, a writer and lecturer, founds Daybreak, a Utopian community, in the Missouri Ozarks. He,…
Fire & Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition
One thinks of the Inquisition as a European phenomenon, but as Anna Lanyon shows in this highly readable account of…
The Flowers of War
In 1937, the Japanese capture Nanking, China. An expatriate American priest, Father Engelmann, hopes his church will be respected as…
Presenting History: Past and Present
In this insightful book, Peter J. Beck, an emeritus professor of history in the UK, cites data indicating that both…
Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress
This book tells the true story of the bond between Cecelia Reynolds, who escaped from slavery in 1846, and Fanny…
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