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The Winter Horses

By Philip Kerr - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Winter, 1941, Ukraine. The Nazis have invaded Russia, leaving death and destruction in their wake. Not only have they massacred indiscriminately, they also have ...Read Review

The Great War: Stories Inspired by Objects from the Great War

By Jim Kay (illus.) - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultShort Stories

The objects that inspired these eleven stories are very varied and include a tin helmet, some sheet music, the nose from a Zeppelin ...Read Review

Buffalo Soldier

By Tanya Landman - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Buffalo Soldier explores the nature of freedom in a searingly poignant story told from the perspective of Charlotte, a young African-American slave from ...Read Review

The Eagle Trail

By Robert Rigby - Published 2013

Genres:

Adventure

In August 1940, a Jewish family from Paris attempts to escape from the Nazis. They take the dangerous Eagle Trail across the Pyrenees to ...Read Review

Lizzy Bennet’s Diary

By Marcia Williams - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Lizzy Bennet’s Diary is a charming, illustrated re-imagining of Pride and Prejudice in diary form. This is not a fan-lit sequel, nor ...Read Review

Vango: Between Earth and Sky

By Timothee de Fombelle - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1934, Paris. Vango, a teenage boy of mysterious origins and with an unusually isolated childhood, is about to be ordained priest, when a shot ...Read Review

Sawbones

By Catherine Johnson - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

‘Medical science is flourishing, and in London the illegal trade in corpses has never been more… alive.’ This quote sums up the novel ...Read Review

Meeting Cezanne

By Michael Morpurgo - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In this charming little book, British Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo tells the story of Yannick, a young Parisian boy who is sent ...Read Review

The Joy of Sexus: Lust, Love, & Longing in the Ancient World

By Vicki León - Published 2013Published 2013-01-29

Genres:

Nonfiction

Anyone who reads or writes about the ancient world has to wonder how human sexuality was expressed in those days.  Was it overt, ...Read Review

The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England

By Elizabeth Cooke - Published 2011Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

Theodosius Boughton: youthful heir to a baronetcy, womanizing ne’er-do-well, a year from his inheritance … and dead. This nonfiction work boasts the enclosed ...Read Review