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Dreaming for Freud
During an eleven-week period in 1900, Sigmund Freud treated an eighteen-year-old girl for hysteria and wrote about his treatment in…
The Invention of Exile
Russian immigrant, Ustin (Austin) Voronkov, works in a New York factory. He falls in love with an American girl, Julia,…
Mrs. Hemingway
Mrs. Hemingway follows the four wives of author Ernest Hemingway. As the book jacket says, “Each Mrs. Hemingway though their…
Wars of the Roses: Stormbird
In this first of an anticipated trilogy, Iggulden turns his attention to the two powerful noble houses with potential claims…
The Devil’s Workshop
The third in the Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad series finds Inspector Walter Day investigating an implausible prison escape: a train…
The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret
Catherine Bailey went to Belvoir Castle on the Rutland family estate to “research a book about this small corner of…
Fallen Beauty
This novel, set in the 1930s in upstate New York, tells the story of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay,…
In Falling Snow
Readers are spoiled for choice with new historical novels set during WWI. Most offer similar themes: navigating the era’s shifting…
Great Britain’s Great War
With the anniversary of the beginning of the First World War rapidly approaching it is no surprise that further publications…
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War
Hundred Days tells the story of the last four months of combat on the western front. It concentrates on the…
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