Bloomsbury
Secret of the Oracle: An Ancient Greek Mystery
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Classical Greece, 510-323 BC. In Saviour Pirotta’s second Greek Mystery, the Mystery Solvers, Nico, scribe to the poet and playwright Ariston, and ...Read Review
Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
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Paradise in Chains weaves together the real-life adventure stories of the mutiny of the Bounty, the founding of Australia as a British penal ...Read Review
The Ninth Hour
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In the early 1900s in immigrant-packed Brooklyn, a young Irish husband commits suicide, a grievous and unpardonable sin for Catholics. He leaves behind ...Read Review
The Walworth Beauty
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This is a beautifully written dual-timeline novel with ghostly overtones. The two stories are linked primarily by location. In 2011 London, Madeleine, a retired ...Read Review
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
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When war broke out in Europe in 1914, artist Claude Monet, 74, had apparently retired to his home in Giverny, just north of Paris. Monet ...Read Review
The Bedlam Stacks
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This immensely readable novel set in Victorian England provides a frolicsome yet compelling examination of history, determinism, and the borders of reality. The ...Read Review
Revolt Against the Romans
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I can see why Tony Bradman dedicated this book to Rosemary Sutcliff; they are both interested in a clash of cultures and the ...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The King Who Threw Away His Throne
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Books by Terry Deary are always popular for younger children, and this is one of his new Saxon Tales. The King who Threw ...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The Shepherd Who Ate His Sheep
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10th century, Maidstone, Kent. This tale is based on a true story of a starving shepherd boy, Edward Medway, who, one winter, cut ...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The Witch Who Faced the Fire
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York, 7th century A.D. Young Aldith is only five when the plague comes. Her father is a tanner, who turns animal skins ...Read Review
