Nonfiction
Call the Midwife: Illustrated Edition
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Attached to an order of courageous, kind and eccentric nuns, apprentice midwife Jennifer Worth tells the story of the women she treated and ...Read Review
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton
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Caroline, granddaughter of the playwright Sheridan, marries George Norton and finds him to be violent and unpredictable. She was already a noted poet, ...Read Review
The Titanic Pocketbook: A Passenger’s Guide
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The Titanic Pocketbook: A Passenger’s Guide is a slim little book chock full of information about the great ship. Written as though ...Read Review
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family
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Juliet Barker has impeccable credentials to write a definitive history of the Brontës. As curator to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, ...Read Review
Life of a Sailor
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Join the military and see the world! That was certainly true for young Frederick Chamier when he signed up with the British Navy ...Read Review
The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England
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Theodosius Boughton: youthful heir to a baronetcy, womanizing ne’er-do-well, a year from his inheritance … and dead. This nonfiction work boasts the enclosed ...Read Review
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family
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Marie Curie is famous for her discovery of the scientific element, radium, which changed the world and for which she, along with her ...Read Review
Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
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Brian Fagan is a marvel, not just in his encyclopedic knowledge of history, archaeology, and anthropology, but in the way he offers up ...Read Review
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
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I’m sure Martha Long’s book was liberating for her to write, but it was tough for me to read. I wanted ...Read Review
Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
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The Orteig prize of $25,000 (approximately $330,000 today) was established in 1919 to award the first pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Those who attempted the ...Read Review