Nonfiction
Paper Kisses: A True Love Story
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“I was not looking for stories when I found Rudolph Kaufmann’s first letters to Ingeborg Magnusson – in May, 1991, at a stamp auction ...Read Review
The High Road To China: George Bogel, The Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet
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This is an extraordinary tale of a young Glaswegian, George Bogle, who developed a genuine friendship with the incarnation of the Buddha of ...Read Review
Right Royal Bastards
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Since the English throne was taken by William the Bastard, aka the Conqueror, in 1066, the British monarchy has enjoyed an equivocal and colourful ...Read Review
When The Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
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Telling the tale of New York’s famed Astor family, this book takes readers from the family’s humble beginnings in the German ...Read Review
She Went To The Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War
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Until relatively recently, Clara Barton, Belle Boyd, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth van Lew, and a very few others were the only American women famous ...Read Review
The Women Of The House
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In 1695, twenty-two-year-old Margaret Hardenbroeck arrived in the colony of New Amsterdam. Margaret wasn’t anyone’s dependent, but a factor, a representative of ...Read Review
Scarlett Rules: When Life Gives You Green Velvet Curtains, Make a Green Velvet Dress
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Advice books don’t really seem to have been Scarlett O’Hara’s thing. She never was all that good at taking advice, ...Read Review
Blackbeard
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While other pirates have faded from memory, Blackbeard still conjures up vivid imagery of pirates terrorizing people and shipping for about two years ...Read Review
The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life
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Could there be a new biography that reveals anything unexpected about the Founding Father? Possibly, but this isn’t it. Unger utilizes correspondence ...Read Review
My Darling Heriott
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Jane Brown has created a fascinating biography of Henrietta St. John: ‘My Darling Heriott’ of the title. Henrietta was born in 1699; her lineage ...Read Review