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Museum of Human Beings
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We first meet Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau in 1805 as he bounces along on his mother Sacagawea’s back, seeing the world with her eyes as ...Read Review
The Privateer’s Revenge
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Naval adventure series seem to have a periodic need to depart from rousing tales of oceangoing drama in favor of planting their characters ...Read Review
The Fight for Rome
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In 68 AD, the period known as the “Year of the Four Emperors,” Quintus Honorius Romanus, aka Taurus the gladiator, is forced to fight ...Read Review
Tomorrow The World
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I’d heard raves about John Biggins’s novels set in the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now I understand why. ...Read Review
Night of Flames
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In the opening days of World War II, Jan Kopernik and his wife, Anna, are separated by the German invasion of Poland. After ...Read Review
The War of Knives
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The year is 1800, and the Haitian revolution has become a brutal civil war. Lieutenant Matty Graves of the U.S. Navy schooner Rattle ...Read Review
Command
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It is the late 18th century, and Britain is at war with the French. At the start of the novel, Thomas Kydd is ...Read Review
No Quarter
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It is 1799, and the young American navy is faced with challenges on the high seas – both from Great Britain, who tries to impress ...Read Review
Sand of the Arena
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It seems there’s a craze for everything Roman these days, and Sand of the Arena offers a compelling reason why. This book ...Read Review
What Lies Buried: A Novel of Old Cape Fear
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Readers may be familiar with Lambdin from his naval adventures, and though his love of all things nautical appears in passing, he’s ...Read Review