Lyons
Harbor of Spies
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In January 1863, a storm forces American captain Everett Townsend to sail his ship reluctantly into the Port of Havana. Before arriving there, he ...Read Review
Journeys on the Silk Road: Desert Explorer, Buddha’s Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World’s Oldest Printed Book
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Sir Marc Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born British foreign service archaeologist who led early 1900s expeditions in central Asia, could have been part of ...Read Review
The Wolves at the Door
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Virginia Hall wanted nothing more than to work as an officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, and she was on a path ...Read Review
The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans “Mafia” Trials, and the Parish Prison Mob
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The record surrounding lynchings, race killings and mass crowd hysteria in American history has grown exponentially in the past ten years. Smith’s ...Read Review
Unit Pride
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This Korean War novel has an unusual pedigree. McAleer, a Boston academic, became pen-pals with Dickson, an inmate in a maximum security prison. ...Read Review