Harcourt
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
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Sometime in the late 10th century, a woman journeyed far into the West, beyond the known horizon. She settled for a few years ...Read Review
Aaronsohn’s Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East
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Those critics who ridicule novelists for creating action heroes with talents and lives that transcend those of the average person will do well ...Read Review
The Theory Of Clouds
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“All children become sad in the late afternoon, for they begin to comprehend the passage of time. The light starts to change. Soon ...Read Review
Mississippi Jack
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Jacky Faber, the irrepressible Napoleonic-era street-urchin-turned-ship’s-boy-turned-fine-lady-turned pirate, is once again in the thick of trouble in this fifth installment of the Bloody ...Read Review
The Ever-After Bird
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At the recent HNS Conference, my suspicions were confirmed that the term “young adult” is now a pseudonym for “anything goes” in children’...Read Review
The Voyage of the Vizcaina
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The Voyage of the Vizcaina is a non-fiction book about Christopher Columbus’s last ship. Is the wreck found in the Bay of ...Read Review
The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues
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David Fulmer’s 1920s Atlanta is a city torn by racial and class strife and patrolled by a poorly managed and corrupt police ...Read Review
Chrusalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
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Maria Sibylla Merian was born in the mid-17th century in Germany into a family of printers. When Merian was a young girl, ...Read Review
Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine De’Medici
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Carolyn Meyer’s “Young Royals” series offers its readers the opportunity to both learn and be entertained by history’s most fascinating personages. ...Read Review
The Nature of Monsters
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This is Clare Clark’s second novel and, like her first, The Great Stink, it is immersed in the filth, chaos and downright ...Read Review