2012

Berlin Crossing

By Kevin Brophy - Published 2012

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In Brandenburg, Germany, in 1993, Michael Ritter loses everything, and everyone, he ever cared about. His wife tosses him out; his mother, with whom ...Read Review

The Seduction of Phaeton Black

By Jillian Stone - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureHistorical Fantasy

Phaeton Black, paranormal investigator, operates in Victorian London. He is charming, clever, playful, ruthless when he needs to be — and, above all, a ...Read Review

The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland

By Frank Delaney - Published 2012

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Literary

In 1956, Ben MacCarthy travels around Ireland collecting stories for the Folklore Commission. His own life story is a mess — he didn’t rescue ...Read Review

Strange Music

By Malcolm MacDonald - Published 2012

Genres:

Saga

Eight couples share a large Hertfordshire house in the years following WWII. Many of the couples are involved in the arts – five architects, ...Read Review

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

By A.S. Byatt - Published 2011Published 2012

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

The Canongate Myth Series has invited prominent authors to retell myths in modern terms. This entry uses Norse, Icelandic and German myths as ...Read Review

Vixen (The Flappers 1)

By Jillian Larkin - Published 2011Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Chicago, 1924. Wealthy society schoolgirl Gloria moonlights as the lead singer for a black jazz band; her ‘country’ cousin Clara comes to help Gloria ...Read Review

The First Crusade

By Peter Frankopan - Published 2012

Genres:

MilitaryNonfiction

Pope Urban’s 1095 clarion call to Western Christendom to re-take Jerusalem from the Turks is the background for many historical novels. In this ...Read Review

The Seven Wonders

By Steven Saylor - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

The twelve previous mystery novels in Steven Saylor’s bestselling Roma Sub Rosa series have made Gordianus the Finder one of the most ...Read Review

The Borgia Mistress

By Sara Poole - Published 2012

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Rome, 1593. Francesca Giordano, a young woman of dark passions and even darker talents, is the court poisoner to Pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borgia. ...Read Review

To Take Her Pride

By Anne Brear - Published 2012

Genres:

Saga

Growing up in the Yorkshire countryside in 1898, Aurora Pettigrew has almost everything a young woman could want: adoring parents, a solid middle-class background, ...Read Review