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Museum of Human Beings

By Colin Sargent - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

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

By Julian Stockwin - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureNautical

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

By James Duffy - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

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

By John Biggins - Published 2007

Genres:

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

By Douglas Jacobson - Published 2007

Genres:

MilitaryRomance

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

By Broos Campbell - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

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

By Julian Stockwin - Published 2006 (UK)Published 2007 (US)

Genres:

AdventureNautical

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

By Broos Campbell - Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureNautical

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

By James Duffy - Published 2005

Genres:

Adventure

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

By Dewey Lambdin - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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