2012
Stones for My Father
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South Africa, 1900. Twelve-year-old Corlie Roux lives with her mother and brothers on a farm in the Transvaal. It is land the British are ...Read Review
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
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The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that century ...Read Review
Crusade
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After the death of Harold in 1066, Edgar the Atheling is proclaimed king by his Saxon supporters. When the various rebellions are ruthlessly put ...Read Review
A Dangerous Inheritance
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Being born with royal blood running through the veins can be a most significant disadvantage. Alison Weir, getting into stride as a historical ...Read Review
The Prodigal
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During the late 17th century on the Atlantic Ocean, primarily in the West Indies, pirates roam the high seas looking for plunder while ...Read Review
The Emerald Storm
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In 1803, American adventurer Ethan Gage becomes involved in Caribbean island intrigue when a renegade former French police officer and his henchmen kidnap him ...Read Review
Bedding Lord Ned
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Venus Valentine, Duchess of Greycliffe, was born on St. Valentine’s Day, as were her three sons, and every year she throws a ...Read Review
Waratah House
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On a ship to Australia in the 1880s, Marina is orphaned after a fever outbreak and is taken into the care of James ...Read Review
The Shadow Queen
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Most of us know Wallis Simpson for what she is most famous: Edward VIII’s love for the twice-divorced woman was the precipitating ...Read Review
Flame of Resistance
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American pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down over France in 1944. Because he personifies the ideal Aryan, the French Resistance recruits him to pose ...Read Review
