2012

Scotland Yard’s First Cases

By Joan Lock - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

Joan Lock has written several books on the British police. This title describes the most significant cases handled by Scotland Yard’s detective ...Read Review

The Lost Saints of Tennessee

By Amy Franklin-Willis - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

In the changing South of a generation ago, Ezekiel Cooper struggles to find a true path through the dense jungle of his family’...Read Review

Cross My Heart

By Sasha Gould - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Venice, 1585. Confined to a convent for the six years since her mother’s death, 16-year-old Laura lives for her memories of her happy ...Read Review

The Sister Queens

By Sophie Perinot - Published 2012

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Marguerite and Eleanor are sisters, Savoyards living in the 13th century. Each young Provençal girl is married off to a king – Marguerite ...Read Review

My Wicked Little Lies

By Victoria Alexander - Published 2012

Genres:

Romance

Two years into her marriage to the Earl of Waterston, Evelyn Hadley-Atwater is asked to return to her former post as an intelligence ...Read Review

Queen Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry, and Spectacular Gardens

By Trea Martyn - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

In this book (previously published in the UK under the title Elizabeth in the Garden) garden historian Trea Martyn concentrates on a relatively ...Read Review

A Good American

By Alex George - Published 2012

Genres:

Saga

George, an Englishman now living in Columbia, Missouri, has written an absolutely beautiful book about one immigrant family’s experience in America. Spanning ...Read Review

In Darkness

By Nick Lake - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Two years after the earthquake, the crippling poverty and devastation faced by the Haitian people has all but disappeared from the news in ...Read Review

A Parliament of Spies

By Cassandra Clark - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This fourth installment featuring Abbess Hildegard is set during the tumultuous times of the reign of Richard II in the 14th century. The ...Read Review

The Yellow Emperor’s Cure

By Kunal Basu - Published 2011Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

Antonio Maria is the most famous surgeon in Lisbon in the late 1800s. Admired both by colleagues and the ladies of the city, ...Read Review