Multi-Period

The Great Wall

By John Man - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

  Man doesn’t mince words. This is another author anxious to show that well- established ideas are more historical myth than fact. ...Read Review

A Kingdom for the Brave

By Tamara McKinley - Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

A Kingdom for the Brave is the story of a disparate group of people struggling for survival in the early days of the ...Read Review

A Voyage Long and Strange : Rediscovering the New World

By Tony Horwitz - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

  Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist with a penchant for history. He also likes to re-examine all things American. Here ...Read Review

Was Napoleon Poisoned? And Other Unsolved Mysteries of Royal History

By Peter Haugen - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

  If King Tut was murdered, why? Did King Arthur really exist? Compelling evidence suggests a Roman general may have been the basis ...Read Review

The Grail Enigma : The Hidden Heirs of Jesus and Mary Magdalene

By Laurence Gardner - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

  The theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and founded a dynasty inextricably entwined with the search for the Holy Grail shows no ...Read Review

How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries : The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past

By Kathy Lynn Emerson - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

  This book presents an overview of the entire process of writing historical mysteries. It covers subjects from research, plotting, and language through ...Read Review

The Time Thief

By Linda Buckley-Archer - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

  Second in the The Gideon Trilogy, The Time Thief also works well as a stand- alone novel. As a fan of time ...Read Review

So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State

By Forrest Church - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

Culture wars are nothing new, as Church demonstrates ably in this study of the tenure of America’s first five presidents. Our nation’...Read Review

Scotland: The Autobiography: 2000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw It Happen

By Rosemary Goring (ed.) - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

This splendid account presents Scotland’s history in the words of the people who lived it: from the first century until the present ...Read Review

Hatfield’s Herbal

By Gabrielle Hatfield - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

To ensure your partner’s fidelity, ladies, sprinkle over his chest a mixture prepared from butterbur, foxglove, royal fern and an old man’...Read Review