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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

Leonardo and the Last Supper

By Ross King - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

This time out, Ross King, novelist and bestselling author of biographical nonfiction focusing primarily on the Italian Renaissance (Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and ...Read Review

Seeking Eden

By Ann Turnbull - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This final book in Ann Turnbull’s Quaker trilogy sees Will and Susanna leave behind the troubles and abuse of the Old World ...Read Review

Violins of Autumn

By Amy McAuley - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Violins of Autumn is the coded message to French patriots that the Allied invasion is imminent. But in the last days before that ...Read Review

Why Spencer Percival Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister

By Andro Linklater - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

Spencer Perceval was the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated, and since the man who committed the crime was immediately apprehended ...Read Review

The Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel

By Y. S. Lee - Published 2011Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Mary Quinn, now a full-fledged member of the Agency, an all-female detective agency run out of a girls’ school in Victorian London, poses ...Read Review

The Friar of Carcassonne

By Stephen O’Shea - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

Our modern sensibilities are frequently so offended by the attitudes of previous centuries that we minimize the importance of standing firm against corruption ...Read Review

Scarlet

By A. C. Gaughen - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Tyrants come in all forms – princes, sheriffs, and even lowly thief catchers. Fortunately for the people ground under the heels of those tyrants, ...Read Review

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

By Dava Sobel - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

In mid-16th-century Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus, a reclusive canon of the Catholic Church, had labored for decades over an astronomical treatise that stood ...Read Review

Battle Fatigue

By Mark Kurlansky - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Growing up in the years following World War II, Joel and his friends hear the stories of fathers and uncles who fought in ...Read Review