Ann Pedtke
A Transcontinental Affair
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A Transcontinental Affair takes a winning premise – the first coast-to-coast railroad journey in 1870 aboard the Pullman Hotel Express – and runs it off the ...Read Review
Struttin’ with Some Barbecue: Lil Hardin Armstrong Becomes the First Lady of Jazz
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Lil Hardin is born with music in her fingers and a beat in her step. Coming of age in Memphis at the dawn ...Read Review
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
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Alva has one duty: to secure a marriage that will save her family. Though her bloodline traces back to French royalty, her father’...Read Review
Carnegie’s Maid
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Clara Kelley finds her way from an impoverished village in Galway to the bustling streets of Pittsburgh, determined to secure a position in ...Read Review
Feast of Sorrow
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As a slave about to go on the auction block in 1st-century Rome, Thrasius has few hopes for his future. He hitches his ...Read Review
Audubon: On the Wings of the World
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In 1820, John James Audubon—an illegitimate child born in Haiti and sent away to live with relations in America—had failed at almost ...Read Review
The Bad Times
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The Bad Times chronicles – in graphic novel form – the terrible history of the Great Hunger in Ireland and the resulting divisions in families ...Read Review
Vita Brevis
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Gaius Ruso, Roman medical officer and reluctant investigator of murders, is back for the seventh installment of the delightful Medicus series. This time ...Read Review
Stealing Indians
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Lucy Secondchief, Simon Lone Fight, Noah Boyscout, and Elijah High Horse have grown up in very different regions of America under very different ...Read Review
Cleopatra’s Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
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Between 1831 and 1881, Paris, London, and New York raced to acquire ancient Egyptian obelisks as symbols of their standing as cultured global cities. Egyptologist ...Read Review