Ann Chamberlin
Fires of Edo (A Shinobi Mystery)
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This is the eighth book in Susan Spann’s Shinobi Mystery series, Shinobi being a refinement of ninjas. The year is 1566. Ninja Hiro ...Read Review
Arab Boy Delivered: A Novel
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This is a Palestinian-Christian coming-of-age story set in Brooklyn in the Sixties. The sexual revolution, civil rights, and Vietnam protests play to a ...Read Review
Greenland
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The historical events evoked in this novel are those surrounding the affair between British author E. M. Forster, best known for his keen ...Read Review
Redwood and Wildfire
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Set between 1898 and 1913, between small-town Georgia and Chicago, Andrea Hairston’s award-winning novel casts the Great Migration of African-Americans escaping the Jim Crow ...Read Review
The Sea of Silence: A Nathan Peake Novel
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In the tradition of Hornblower and Aubrey/Maturin comes this third in a new series of Napoleonic seafaring adventures. “Jane Austen for boys” ...Read Review
The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
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In 1910, Dr. John Watson takes his wife to Egypt for a tuberculosis cure. While she gets mud packs, he discovers the mysterious disappearance ...Read Review
The Bookseller’s Secret: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII
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Scenes switch evenly between Katie, a self-doubting American writer who takes a break in London at Christmastime; and the world of Nancy Mitford, ...Read Review
A Land Like You (The Africa List)
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Egyptian-born Tobie Nathan orchestrates a love-song to his native land between 1925 and the mid-Sixties in Rushdie-Mafouz-Durrell strokes. The world begins for our lead ...Read Review
A Mystery of Blood and Dust (Belina Lansac Murder Mysteries Book 2) (Belina Lansac Mysteries)
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In 1483, a beautiful young woman is found dead in a chapel when she should have been at her betrothal banquet. Belina Lansac and ...Read Review
The Last Blast of the Trumpet
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This third and final volume in the novelization of the life of John Knox takes the Scottish reformer from his return to his ...Read Review