Nonfiction
My Lady Scandalous
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In this eminently readable and enjoyable biography, Regency author Jo Manning reveals the life and times of a celebrated courtesan. Born in Scotland ...Read Review
Witchcraft, A History
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Witchcraft, A History is a concentrated examination of the rituals and customs of the craft’s first architects in Greece and Rome through ...Read Review
The River of Doubt
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President Theodore Roosevelt found energy through grueling physical challenges. In this highly recommended biographical work, comparable to a thriller, he explores the River ...Read Review
Runaway Waltz: A Memoir from Vienna to New York
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Ten distinct episodes from Morton’s life make up this brief memoir. The vignettes begin with his mania for movies as a young ...Read Review
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
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Alexander II (1818-1881), known as Russia’s “Tsar Liberator” for his freeing of the serfs, eased the censorship that had been in force ...Read Review
Druids, Preachers of Immortality
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Druids is another piece of solid research and interpretation from Dr. Ross, whose earlier Pagan Celtic Britain is regarded as seminal. The Druids ...Read Review
The Last Shot
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Most readers of Civil War fiction are surprised when novels dealing with naval operations touch on something other than ironclads dueling on America’...Read Review
New York Night: The Mystique and Its History
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In New York Night, Mark Caldwell reports on the evolution of Manhattan nightlife from the era of Dutch colonization to the heyday of ...Read Review
Revolutionary Mothers
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Americans tend to think of the War for Independence as a revolution, but in reality it was a civil war. Many men participants ...Read Review
The Girl from Botany Bay
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A crime has been committed: a young woman on foot, journeying alone on the road, has been accosted by three highwaywomen. She’s ...Read Review
