Nonfiction
Beyond These Walls – Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto
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This is the vivid and compelling autobiography of Janina Bauman, a young Jewish girl (the same age as Anne Frank) from a professional ...Read Review
Crowned in a Far Country
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Eight young women sent from home to marry into royal houses: Obscure German princess to Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great deposed her ...Read Review
A Needle in the Right Hand of God
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This book is subtitled The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry. While the author always returns to ...Read Review
The White Cascade
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In 1910, the Great Northern Railway crossed the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. Two trains loaded with passengers and mail headed west toward Seattle. ...Read Review
Passionate Minds
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Emilie du Châtelet’s brilliant mind is nurtured by her elderly father, a rarity for a female in early 18th century France. ...Read Review
I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia
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What an extraordinary insight Nina gives us into the closed world of Stalinist Russia. Starting in 1932, when Nina was nearly fourteen years old, ...Read Review
Pompeii: The Living City
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Beginning in 54 AD, twenty-five years before Vesuvius rained ash and death, Pompeii covers the life of the city through the eyes of citizens ...Read Review
Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials
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Human life was cheap on the old frontier, unless one shot a horse. That’s only one of the conclusions to be drawn ...Read Review
Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization
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If you have some disposable income, Flushed, Hodding Carter’s tribute to the “humble plumber,” is a fun, yet informative, way to spend ...Read Review
The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London
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During the 19th century the East End of London was peopled by a demimonde of criminals. The divide between the working, middle and ...Read Review
