Multi-Period

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

Evidence Explained: Citing History Source from Artifacts to Cyberspace

By Elizabeth Shown Mills - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

This citation guide has two goals: first, to provide citation examples for as many types of sources as possible (especially those not covered ...Read Review

An Utterly Impartial History of Britain

By John O’Farrell - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is essentially 1066 and All That for the 21st century. John O’Farrell, who is better known for his Guardian articles and novels ...Read Review

The Holy Well

By Colin Macpherson - Published 2007

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This fascinating novel portrays the lives of two men from two different time periods: Bren from the late Bronze Age, who lives in ...Read Review

People of the Book

By Geraldine Brooks - Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

This wonderful gem has convinced me to put Geraldine Brooks’s other novels on my to-be-read list. Set both in the mid-1990s ...Read Review

The Bone Garden

By Tess Gerritsen - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This story begins in present-day Boston, where Julia Hamill is newly divorced. While working in the overgrown garden of her new home, she ...Read Review

Sanctuary

By Raymond Khoury - Published 2007

Genres:

Thriller

The Knights Templar again, with another secret they have guarded across the centuries: the elixir of life, no less. However, the Templars seem ...Read Review

The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis

By Michael Pritchett - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This is a story about Meriwether Lewis, who embarked in 1804 on his famous expedition with William Clark. He died, presumably by suicide, a ...Read Review