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Presenting History: Past and Present
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In this insightful book, Peter J. Beck, an emeritus professor of history in the UK, cites data indicating that both British and American ...Read Review
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
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Crowley relies heavily on primary sources as he recounts Venice’s economic rise from the time of the Fourth Crusade to its decline ...Read Review
The Fighting Irish
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For four hundred years Irish men have sought bounty in the armies of foreign powers. Known as the Wild Geese, whether fighting in ...Read Review
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
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In 1923, Evangeline English is stagnating in gray, sedentary Dorset. When her sister Lizzie joins Millicent Frost, a charismatic missionary, in a venture to ...Read Review
The Promise
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This is an outstanding historical saga, on a par with Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers, in its family complexity. In 1948, young war widow ...Read Review
The Last Romanov
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We know Tsarina Alexandra’s lady-in-waiting was with the Romanov family at the time of their assassination in 1918. Mossanen has used this historical ...Read Review
The Street Sweeper
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Adam Zignelik, a history professor at Columbia studying the beginnings of the civil rights movement, is looking for a new research topic to ...Read Review
Betrayal
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Lydia Hamilton is a hospital office worker in present-day Canada, secure, grounded, in love—and tormented at night by vivid dreams of a ...Read Review
Beyond the Wood
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Set during the American Civil War and “not long ago,” this is the story of Union soldier Hank Gragg and his several-times great ...Read Review
The Columbus Affair
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This is a conspiracy thriller, a Quest that keeps closely to the rules of the genre, rules which Steve Berry has followed in ...Read Review
