Multi-Period

Secrets of the Tombs 1: The Phoenix Code

By Helen Moss - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

I may be slightly biased, as I’ve been fascinated by Egyptian pharaohs and their treasures from an early age, but I absolutely ...Read Review

The Sea Garden

By Deborah Lawrenson - Published 2014

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The Sea Garden consists of three novelettes. Book one, “The Sea Garden,” is set in the present day, where we find an award-winning ...Read Review

The Black Russian

By Vladimir Alexandrov - Published 2013Published 2014

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Nonfiction

It is always a pleasure to discover any tale that grips you from the first page and leads you along the byways of ...Read Review

Daughter of Catalonia

By Jane MacKenzie - Published 2014

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The publicity blurb for this book likens it to a Victoria Hislop novel, and the comparison is just, if what is meant is ...Read Review

The Bird Skinner

By Alice Greenway - Published 2014

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For years, Jim Kennoway has lived in two worlds: a noted collector and curator of bird collections for New York’s Museum of ...Read Review

Daughters of Time

By Mary Hoffman (ed.) - By The History Girls - Published 2014

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultShort Stories

The History Girls are a group of children’s historical novelists who, under Mary Hoffman’s careful editorship, have joined to write this ...Read Review

The Forgotten Seamstress

By Liz Trenow - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Two women’s stories are interwoven in this dual-period novel about love, loss, and betrayal. Readers get pieces of two women’s stories ...Read Review

The Hotel on the Place Vendome

By Tilar J. Mazzeo - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Since the Paris Ritz was first established in 1898, hundreds of world-famous writers, actors, princes and tycoons have stayed in its suites and dined ...Read Review

The Book of Nights

By Sylvie Germain - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

Originally published in France in 1985, this novel maps the lives of the “freshwater” Peniel family over a hundred years and appears to focus ...Read Review

Europe: A History

By Norman Davies - Published 2014Published c1997

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Nonfiction

This is a reissue of a book originally published in 1996, with a second preface added in 1997. Disappointingly, given everything that has happened in ...Read Review