2012
Talina in the Tower
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Review #1 Venice, 1866. On a quiet day in November, the Ravageurs, half-wolf, half-hyena, return to Venice, their ancestral home. They were cheated out of ...Read Review
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
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A fascinating book! While not an expert in the field, the late Mr. Kriwaczek was a superb writer with a journalist’s flair ...Read Review
The Sensorium of God
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The novel opens in 1679. Despite the work of Kepler, Galileo and Tycho Brahe, the movement of the stars and planets remains a mystery. ...Read Review
Dawn Comes Early
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In 1895, with her latest romance novel banned in more polite societies, Kate Tenney is looking for a way to escape the confines of ...Read Review
Lady Amelia’s Mess and a Half
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In this Regency novel, the widowed Lady Amelia Audley returns to London after a two-year absence. She is accompanied by her trusted and ...Read Review
Hawkwood
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The Bow Street Runners, generally accepted as London’s first professional police force, was founded in 1749 and operated in London until 1839, when the ...Read Review
Slant of Light
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Just before the Civil War, Turner, a writer and lecturer, founds Daybreak, a Utopian community, in the Missouri Ozarks. He, his wife Charlotte, ...Read Review
The Garden of Evening Mists
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Malaysian Chinese Judge Teoh Yun Ling takes early retirement from the Bench in 1987 without telling anyone why. Now free of her obligations, she ...Read Review
The Baker’s Daughter
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What does a 17-year-old German baker’s daughter during World War II have in common with the owner of a German bakery in ...Read Review
The Shoemaker’s Wife
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This sprawling history begins in the Italian Alps in the early 20th century. It takes a while for teenaged Ciro and Enza to ...Read Review
