Multi-Period
Britannia’s Empire: Making a British World
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Larger-than-life figures such as Wolfe, Rhodes, Drake, Gordon, Clive, Raffles, Brooke and Roberts occupy center stage in histories of the Empire upon which ...Read Review
The Sancy Blood Diamond
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The centuries-long fascination with diamonds, especially large ones, has progressed well beyond an attraction to shiny objects. Like others before her (see Marian ...Read Review
A Time Gone By
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From a writer’s point of view, this is very much a tour-de-force. Switching the time frame of a murder mystery back and ...Read Review
The Obit Man
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In 1944, sixty French-speaking Canadians were sent to Occupied France as part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Their tasks included training resistance fighters, ...Read Review
The Sinner’s Tale
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A medieval knight with a sin he fears will condemn him to eternal purgatory; a modern-day woman whose anti-terrorist rhetoric conceals a desperate ...Read Review
Blast to the Past #1: Lincoln’s Legacy
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This book introduces a new time-travel series for children. My six-year-old son, nine-year-old daughter, and I all say “hooray!” The premise is uncomplicated ...Read Review
Blood Secret
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Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna has been selectively mute ever since her mother abandoned her. After years in Catholic charity homes, Jerry’s Aunt Constanza, ...Read Review
The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg
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Like Josephine Tey’s classic The Daughter of Time, Jane Langton’s latest mystery is an intellectual adventure in historical sleuthing. Highly readable, ...Read Review
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
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American graduate student Eloise Kelly is in England to research her dissertation on “aristocratic espionage.” When a descendant of the famed spy called ...Read Review
Fatal Memories
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The MEG, an experimental MRI-like device, was designed to treat the mentally ill by targeting and erasing traumatic memories. While working to prove ...Read Review
