Multi-Period

An Utterly Impartial History of Britain

By John O’Farrell - Published 2007

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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

People of the Book

By Geraldine Brooks - Published 2008

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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

Lands Beyond The Sea

By Tamara McKinley - Published 2007

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This multi-generational saga of the clash of cultures in Australia begins 50,000 years ago, exploring the lives of the indigenous hunter-gatherers, richly detailing their ...Read Review

The Assassin’s Song

By M.G. Vassanji - Published 2007

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On the evening of his eleventh birthday, Karsan Dargawalla’s father, “a great and divine presence in their village,” takes his son for ...Read Review

The Shadow Catcher

By Marianne Wiggins - Published 2007

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Biographical Fiction

The story opens in present-day Los Angeles. The fictional writer of a novel about Edward Curtis is meeting with Hollywood executives who are ...Read Review

Tipperary

By Frank Delaney - Published 2007

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Literary

Born into an Anglo-Irish family, Charles O’Brien loves Ireland with a fierce passion; this sentiment is wonderfully conveyed in his personal journal, ...Read Review

Interred With Their Bones

By Jennifer Lee Carrell - Published 2007

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Did Shakespeare really write what we think he did? Or did someone else? That long-fought argument is the basis for Interred with Their ...Read Review

The Landlord’s Black-Eyed Daughter

By Mary Ellen Dennis - Published 2007

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John Randolph Remington leads a double life, one as a nobleman and one as a “Knight of the Road,” a notorious brand of ...Read Review

A Widow’s Curse

By Philip dePoy - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime

Fourth in a series of Fever Devilin mysteries, A Widow’s Curse may be enjoyed as a stand-alone. Set in rural Georgia, with ...Read Review

Keeping the House

By Ellen Baker - Published 2007

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RomanceSaga

A two-family saga spanning 1896 to 1950, Keeping the House explores what making a home actually means, and the sacrifices both men and women have ...Read Review