Multi-Period

The Secrets of Life and Death

By Rebecca Alexander - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Secrets of Life and Death begins with the meeting of the Elizabethan scholar and alchemist, Dr. John Dee, and Countess Elisabeth Bathory, ...Read Review

Inglorious Royal Marriages: A Demi-Millenium of Unholy Matrimony

By Leslie Carroll - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is the latest installment in Leslie Carroll’s chronicles of royal relationships, both legally and not so legally binding. This part of ...Read Review

Man’s Best Hero: True Stories of Great American Dogs

By Ace Collins - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Most dog owners consider their dog a hero in some way, even if it is just their ability to make you smile after ...Read Review

Moonshine: A Cultural History of America’s Infamous Liquor

By Jaime Joyce - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

White lightning, fire water, mountain dew – call it what you like, but moonshine holds a certain fascination for Americans. An un-aged clear alcohol, ...Read Review

Stagecoach Travel

By Louise Allen - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Louise Allen’s Stagecoach Travel takes a look at stage travel in England from its beginning in 1657 through its heyday in the 1820s ...Read Review

What the Apothecary Ordered: Questionable Cures Through the Ages

By Caroline Rance (ed.) - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

In this delightfully weird collection of ancient and not-so-ancient remedies for what ails us, Rance has amassed the most unusual cures she could ...Read Review

Maat-Ka-Re

By W. J. Cherf - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureTime-slip

This is the fifth book in the Maunscripts of the Richard Trust series, but although I have not read the earlier novels, this ...Read Review

The Hundred-Year House

By Rebecca Makkai - Published 2014

Genres:

1999, 1955, 1929, 1900. Time’s arrow, loosed in reverse, slows at these points in its flight through Laurelfield estate, home to the old-moneyed, “cursed” Devohrs. The ...Read Review

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

By Bradley Greenburg - Published 2014

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The McGhees, a black family freed from slavery, flee the Jim Crow laws and poverty of post-Civil War Alabama for Indiana hoping to ...Read Review

That Summer

By Lauren Willig - Published 2014

Genres:

In 2009, Julia Conley is an unemployed equity research analyst in New York City who is not sure what she wants to do with ...Read Review