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Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America
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To tell the history of medicine in America is a Herculean task. How can the story possibly be told in a single volume? ...Read Review
The Hypnotist
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FBI Agent Lucian Glass is certain that Malachai Samuels is behind a robbery in Vienna that left Glass badly injured and a woman ...Read Review
The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
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Since I usually review new fiction for the HNS, I was happy to try my hand at nonfiction. My assignment arrived: The Art ...Read Review
A Cottage by the Sea
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A Cottage by the Sea is very much a modern romance novel with glimpses of 18th-century Cornwall. The story begins in Hollywood, where ...Read Review
Season of Storms
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In the early years of the 20th century, the famous playwright Galeazzo D’Ascanio falls in love with an actress named Celia Sands ...Read Review
The Story of Cirrus Flux
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Britain’s Age of Enlightenment is an intriguing period of history to explore. It’s rich in scientific discovery, philosophical debate, and a ...Read Review
The Tenth Chamber
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A fire in an abbey in the Perigord region of France (modern Dordogne) reveals a strange medieval manuscript, and the two experts called ...Read Review
The Man from Beijing
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The Man from Beijing was first published in Sweden in 2008. The English translation appeared this February. It is a fine, sweeping mystery that ...Read Review
Call Me Ahab
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These nine short stories mix fact and fiction, and most of them concern historical characters with physical disabilities. One of the best invites ...Read Review
Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family
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The author has dedicated this publication to her father, and rightly so. His desire to research and record his family history laid the ...Read Review
