Ann Chamberlin
Summer in Baden-Baden
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The Dostoyevyskys spend the summer of 1867 at the German Kurort of Baden-Baden. Fedya, the great writer, suffers from epilepsy, the scorn of Turgenev, ...Read Review
The Friendly Persuasion
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The reader who picks this up having seen “Civil War” on the cover and hoping for tales of cannon shot and screaming horses ...Read Review
The Master of Monterey
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In 1842, false rumors of war between Mexico and the United States send zealous Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones of the U.S. Navy ...Read Review
Red River
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The Gettysburgs and Bull Runs of other novels set in the U.S. Civil War are a different theatre from this novel, set ...Read Review
The Greater the Honor
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Sailing novels of Lord Nelson’s age are of deserved popularity, from Horatio Hornblower to the late lamented O’Brian’s Aubrey and ...Read Review
Gudrun’s Tapestry
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The Nibelungenlied is told in scores of versions both old, like the Poetic Edda upon which Joan Schweighardt based her version, and new. ...Read Review
Dream Weaver
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This is the second book in a series, the first entitled Picture Maker. It might help to have read the first one, which ...Read Review
Flesh of the God
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During the reign of Maatkare Hatshepsut, Officer Bak is sent in disgrace to an outpost far up the Nile in this prequel to ...Read Review
Mr. Lincoln’s Wars
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Not a novel in the usual sense of the word, Mr. Lincoln’s Wars consists of thirteen short stories. Insulated in characters, plot ...Read Review
Feathered Serpent
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The adventurer Hernan Cortés arrives on the coast of Mexico with a handful of men, armor, horses and guns. He proceeds to ...Read Review