Multi-Period
This New and Poisonous Air
McOmber’s collection of short stories has been likened to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Isak Dinesen. Although, for…
The Map of Time
Time in this novel seems to spin in spiral patterns, weaving past, present, and future. Innocently enough, the first part…
Ruby Red
Originally published in Germany in 2009, Ruby Red is the first in a trilogy about a rather odd family…
The Stones of London
This is the story of twelve London buildings and the men who left their imprint on the fabric of the…
Behind the Palace Doors
“Five centuries of sex, adventure, vice, treachery, and folly from royal Britain.” The tribulations of the Tudors are well known,…
The Brahms Deception
Editors' choice
Kristian North is a handsome, talented, and perpetually broke pianist who has lost everything important to him: his Julliard scholarship,…
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
The chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, Lucy Worsley, has written this book to tie in with her television series…
Falling In Love With English Boys
Seventeen-year-old Cat Vernon is stuck in London all summer with her mother, who is doing research on an obscure writer…
Shadows of a Down East Summer
This skillfully drawn multi-period mystery blends present-day crime with scenes from 1890, a year when painter Winslow Homer was living…
The Long-Shining Waters
Across the centuries, three women find their fates bound to the shores of Lake Superior. In 1622, Grey Rabbit, a…
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