Viking
The Tenth Gift
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In present-day London, Julia Lovat receives a goodbye gift from her lover: a book of 17th century embroidery patterns which belonged to ...Read Review
The Romanov Bride
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
In the first two decades of the 20th century, two worlds collide in Russia. The fall of the Romanovs and the massacre ...Read Review
Fall of Frost
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Robert Frost, the beloved American poet, was born into a long and sorrow-ridden life in 1874. High infant mortality made parents show little or ...Read Review
Winter in Madrid
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A bestseller in the United Kingdom, C.J. Sansom’s thriller is now available in the U.S. Readers may recognize Sansom for ...Read Review
People of the Book
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This wonderful gem has convinced me to put Geraldine Brooks’s other novels on my to-be-read list. Set both in the mid-1990s ...Read Review
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw It Happen
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This splendid account presents Scotland’s history in the words of the people who lived it: from the first century until the present ...Read Review
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
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In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster. Eight years previously he had lodged with the Mountjoys, a family of ...Read Review
The Slave Ship: A Human History
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Countless thousands of words have been written about the slave trade and the industries built upon its products. In The Slave Ship, historian ...Read Review
The Lion Hunter: The Mark of Solomon, Book One
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This novel for young adult readers is the fourth in Wein’s ongoing Arthurian/Aksumite cycle, which began with The Winter Prince (1993). In 6...Read Review
Home Run: Escape From Nazi Europe
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Throughout World War II a total of a quarter of a million Allied soldiers and airmen found themselves cut off, behind enemy lines ...Read Review
