Simon & Schuster
The Lady of the Rivers
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Philippa Gregory’s third entry in her Cousins’ War series features an unusual character: Jacquetta Woodville, mother of Elizabeth, who in turn gave ...Read Review
City of Promise: A Novel of New York’s Gilded Age
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The American Civil War is ending, and Confederate prisoner Joshua Turner returns to New York, minus a leg but filled with ambition. Solving ...Read Review
A Young Wife
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Minke van Aisma was born and raised in a small Dutch town where the old ways of life have yet to give way ...Read Review
The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown
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The author of The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is off on another romp (the title refers to the three leading sci-fi pulp magazines ...Read Review
Cleopatra Confesses
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Born in the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra was the favorite of her father, the pharaoh of Egypt, who bypassed his older daughters ...Read Review
The Son of the Enlightenment
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1779-1785. Autocrat Empress Maria Theresa is succeeded by Joseph II, liberal and tolerant up to a point. Thamos, count of Thebes, keeper of ...Read Review
Conspirata
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In Imperium, we saw Cicero rise from humble origins to achieve the highest office of Rome. Now, in the second book of the ...Read Review
Small Acts of Amazing Courage
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In 1918, India is under British rule, and 15-year-old Rosalind is the darling of a privileged class. Most British children are sent back to ...Read Review
Sabotaged
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Sabotaged is the third book in The Missing series, about famous children from the past who were kidnapped to be adopted by paying ...Read Review
My Brother Abe
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Despite the title, this novel for ages 8-12 concentrates on Lincoln’s sister Sally. Little is known of her historically, leaving the author ...Read Review
