2012

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

Genres:

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

The Most Improper Miss Sophie Valentine

By Jayne Fresina - Published 2012

Genres:

Romance

Sophie Valentine feels like a burden on her family. A broken engagement and a minor scandal have kept suitors at bay, and there ...Read Review

May the Road Rise Up to Meet You

By Peter Troy - Published 2012

Genres:

LiterarySaga

Ethan McOwen has lived through the period of Irish history known as “the Hunger” in 1847 County Fermanagh. He and his sister, Aislinn, brought ...Read Review

Louise’s Gamble

By Sarah Shaber - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the second in a series set in Washington, DC during WWII. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, works as a file clerk ...Read Review

Zombie Island: A Shakespeare Undead Novel

By Lori Handeland - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureAlternate HistoryHistorical Fantasy

Imagine that Shakespeare is a vampire, and that the Dark Lady he wrote about in his sonnets is a zombie-hunter named Kate, and ...Read Review

The Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel

By Y. S. Lee - Published 2011Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Mary Quinn, now a full-fledged member of the Agency, an all-female detective agency run out of a girls’ school in Victorian London, poses ...Read Review