2012
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
Armistice
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Stafford begins his novel with the line “Some men had started a war, other men went off to fight it; the living were ...Read Review
Precious Bones
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
When her father kicks a pushy Yankee realtor off their Florida swampland property and the guy later turns up dead, it turns out ...Read Review
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
Willow Vale
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Coerced into marrying an unloving, abusive man, Francesca Sittoni must leave her home in northern Italy and relocate with her new husband to ...Read Review
Blackmore’s Treasure
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I am a fan of Barbara Erskine’s time slip novels—and this is a superb equivalent for younger readers, boys especially, but ...Read Review
