Viking
The Green Glass Sea
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In 1943, Dewey Kerrigan, nearly eleven, finds herself on a train headed toward New Mexico to join her father, a mathematician who has been ...Read Review
The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London
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During the 19th century the East End of London was peopled by a demimonde of criminals. The divide between the working, middle and ...Read Review
Bowery Girl
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Mollie Flynn and Annabelle Lee are bad girls, make no mistake. When the two have their first meet-up with a settlement house do-gooder, ...Read Review
When The Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
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Telling the tale of New York’s famed Astor family, this book takes readers from the family’s humble beginnings in the German ...Read Review
Basilica : The Splendour and the Scandal — Building St Peter’s
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The Basilica of St. Peter’s has dominated the spiritual and physical landscape of the Catholic Church for centuries, an amalgam of ...Read Review
Helen of Troy
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Once again we have a re-telling of the Trojan War from Helen’s point of view. For those of you who came in ...Read Review
The Observations
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In Scotland in 1863, 15-year-old runaway Bessy Buckley finds work as a maid for the beautiful Arabella Reid and her penny-pinching husband at their ...Read Review
Passarola Rising
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Father Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a pioneer in 18th-century aviation. His flying ship, the Passarola, never succeeded in transporting humans, ...Read Review
Augusta Locke
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Augusta Locke feels like a novel in two parts. Augusta (“Gussie”) is born to a Minnesota trapper in 1903, a wild creature who looks ...Read Review
The Deadly Embrace
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This exciting thriller is set in the months leading up to D-Day. Second Lieutenant Liza Marantz, who was studying forensic medicine before she ...Read Review
