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Into the Savage Country

By Shannon Burke - Published 2015

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

William Wyeth cannot get the itch to explore out of his system. “I craved the forest and woods and the vast, wild spaces.” ...Read Review

A Map of Betrayal

By Ha Jin - Published 2014

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Was the Chinese spy Gary Shang, who loved his homeland but also the country on which he is spying, a hero or a ...Read Review

The Moor’s Account

By Laila Lalami - Published 2014Published 2014-09-09

Genres:

Literary

In 1527, conquistador Narváez sails from Spain for Florida with an armada of 600 men. His objective is to capture that region for the ...Read Review

Nostalgia

By Dennis McFarland - Published 2013

Genres:

LiteraryMilitary

Summerfield Hayes enlists in the Union army in the summer of 1864, despite his older sister’s objections. Prior to his enlistment, Hayes had ...Read Review

The O’Briens

By Peter Behrens - Published 2012

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LiterarySaga

Behrens follows up his Governor General’s award-winning Law of Dreams with a multi-generational family saga. At the turn of the 20th century, ...Read Review

Watergate

By Thomas Mallon - Published 2012

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

When a reader chooses to delve into the political historical quagmire that surrounded the Watergate scandal, there are a plethora of books from ...Read Review

Nanjing Requiem

By Ha Jin - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

Many accounts have been previously written about this most horrendous historical event, better known as the Rape of Nanking, a time in the ...Read Review

Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

By Lee Sandlin - Published 2010

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Nonfiction

Lee Sandlin proves with vivid intensity what the Mississippi River was like before the time of Mark Twain: a river that was feared ...Read Review

Ransom

By David Malouf - Published 2009Published 2010

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Literary

Ransom is a diamond of a novel, tiny but flawless, prose so pared away and carefully constructed that however many times you read ...Read Review

Devil’s Dream

By Madison Smartt Bell - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical FictionEpic

Certainly one of the most curious events in historical fiction in decades is the decision by a writer to pen a trilogy about ...Read Review