Harcourt
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Despite its gimmicky-sounding subtitle, The Bad Queen is a straightforward tale of Marie Antoinette from the time shortly before her marriage to the ...Read Review
My Vicksburg
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When Vicksburg, Mississippi, comes under Union siege in 1863, Claire Louise Corbet’s family joins their neighbors in seeking shelter in nearby caves. ...Read Review
The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The book is very much a record of Charles Darwin’s youth from the time he is a nine-year-old going off to boarding ...Read Review
The Only Son
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The passing mention of an older brother in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions sent author Stéphane Audeguy in search of the rest of ...Read Review
The Letter Writer
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Popular YA historical novelist Rinaldi has a go at imagining what it was like to be in the middle of Nat Turner’s ...Read Review
The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe
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This is a tale of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-06 as told by Captain Lewis’s Newfoundland dog, Seaman, who accompanied ...Read Review
Master of the Delta
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Jack Branch is the last member of an old Mississippi Delta family. He returns to his roots to teach high school, as his ...Read Review
A Manuscript of Ashes
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Resolving to flee the tumult of the university in the late 1960s, Minaya, a young student, decides to leave Madrid and write his ...Read Review
The Toss of a Lemon
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This phenomenal novel, set in India, follows the life of Sivakami from early childhood through old age, spanning the years 1896 through the 1950s. ...Read Review
My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultThriller
In this sixth installment of the Bloody Jack Adventures, Jacky Faber, the infamous Napoleonic-era sixteen-year-old, finds herself in the thick of battle. Jacky, ...Read Review