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Murder at Mansfield Park

By Lynn Shepherd - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The well-known classic Mansfield Park has been transformed into a whodunit murder mystery. Murder at Mansfield Park is a page-turner with twists and ...Read Review

Red Lotus

By Pai Kit Fai - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

The wealth of detail about Chinese history and culture gives this book an edge over other stories that tell a similar tale. The ...Read Review

The Myth of Bloody Mary

By Linda Porter - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

This fascinating biography of Mary Tudor cuts through centuries of assumption, legend, and demonization to reveal a more even-handed portrait of the first ...Read Review

The Glassblower of Murano

By Marina Fiorato - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

In a tale of genius and tragedy, Leonora Manin is inspired to travel to Murano, Italy, from Hampstead, England, the home of her 17...Read Review

Give Me Back My Legions!

By Harry Turtledove - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Quinctilius Varus is not a natural soldier. But no upper-class Roman can refuse the wishes of the Emperor Augustus, and so when the ...Read Review

Sarah’s Key

By Tatiana de Rosnay - Published 2007 (US)Published 2008 (UK)

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Paris, 1942: ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski locks her four-year-old brother in a secret cupboard to keep him safe when the French police come to arrest ...Read Review

Nick of Time

By Ted Bell - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

  Set in the summers of both 1939 and 1805 in the English Channel, Bell has fashioned a boy’s adventure courtesy of a time ...Read Review

Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec, 1775

By Thomas A. Desjardin - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

One of the major ironies of American history is that one of the first policy decisions taken by the American rebels fighting for ...Read Review

The Book of Loss

By Julith Jedamus - Published 2005Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

This novel is presented in diary format, making it reminiscent of historical works such as Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book. Set during the ...Read Review

Daughter of the Sun

By Barbara Wood - Published 2007

Genres:

Thriller

In pre-Columbian New Mexico, Hoshi’tiwa, a 17-year-old young woman, is a gifted potter of rain jars. The daughter of a corn-grower, she ...Read Review