Nonfiction
Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
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Jack Weatherford based the title of this book on an inscription carved in a stone in the Great Wall of China, about 130 miles ...Read Review
Shadows At Noon
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The history of the Indian subcontinent in the 20th century, set out in an easy-to-read manner, making it a pleasure to learn. Joya ...Read Review
The Dictionary People
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A lexicographer moving on to a new post abroad revisits favourite locations in Oxford. Included in this was a visit to the archives ...Read Review
Stubborn Life: Hardship and Hope in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland
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In her earliest memories of life in 1930 on the Soviet side of the border between Ukraine and Poland, author Michalska recalls activists coming ...Read Review
In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo’s Daughter
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This book is memoir, travelogue, and biography altogether. Bostridge follows the path of Adele Hugo (1830-1915), the youngest child of Victor Hugo. The ...Read Review
A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
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When the Prince of Wales visited New York in 1924, he had no idea that the urbane, well-dressed Dr. Gibson who squired him through ...Read Review
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
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History professor Sheppard recognizes the women who made crucial contributions to the field of Egyptology. Amelia Edwards traveled to Egypt once, but her ...Read Review
The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal
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On the beach at Great Yarmouth in September 1900, the body of Kim Donovan’s great-great aunt was discovered, the victim of a brutal ...Read Review
On the Road to Freedom: and From Captivity
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In 1918 a band of Czech and Slovak ex-POWs took over the Trans-Siberian railway in the course of the Russian Civil War; in effect ...Read Review
The Royal Women Who Made England: The Tenth Century in Saxon England
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M.J. Porter has written over 50 fiction titles on Saxon England, and she says that she wrote this, her first non-fiction book, out ...Read Review
