2010

The Betrayal of the Blood Lily

By Lauren Willig - Published 2010

Genres:

Romance

Sixth in Willig’s series featuring present day academic Eloise Kelly researching the exploits of aristocratic English spies in the Napoleonic era, this ...Read Review

Tassie and the Black Baron

By Katie Roy - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

In this lively time-slip story (think Monty Python and the Holy Grail meets the dysfunctional family from hell) tearaway Tassie goes on a ...Read Review

Abigail

By Jill Eileen Smith - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical FictionInspirational

As the second wife of the soon-to-be-king David of ancient biblical times, Abigail must contend with hardships and inner turmoil that she thinks ...Read Review

Eye of the Raven

By Eliot Pattison - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the second installment of his colonial mystery series, Edgar Award winner Pattison provides an absorbing tale firmly and effectively grounded in the ...Read Review

Recollections of Rosings

By Rebecca Ann Collins - Published 2010

Genres:

Romance

Nothing has prepared Catherine or her daughter Lillian to see a black and smoldering ruin where an elegant house once stood. “Catherine gasped. ...Read Review

The Debonair Duke

By Emily Hendrickson - Published 2010

Genres:

Romance

On her website, Emily Hendrickson says: ‘[T]oo many of the peers we encounter in Regency novels sound more American than British. A ...Read Review

Colony

By Hugo Wilcken - Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

From the mid-19th century until World War II, French criminals were often deported to penal colonies in South America, such as Devil’...Read Review

Alcestis

By Katharine Beutner - Published 2010

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

Those familiar with Greek mythology may recall Alcestis as the symbol of an ideal wife, a woman who so loved her husband, Admetus, ...Read Review

1492: The Year the World Began

By Felipe Ferńandez-Armesto - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

Felipe Ferńandez-Armesto’s contention in 1492: The Year the World Began is that in the titular year events occurred that shaped the global ...Read Review

Ransom

By David Malouf - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

Ransom is a diamond of a novel, tiny but flawless, prose so pared away and carefully constructed that however many times you read ...Read Review