Ann Pedtke

The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent

By Michael Frassetto - Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

In a period of history when the Catholic Church ruled supreme, religious dissenters challenged the boundaries not only of belief but also of ...Read Review

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze

By Maaza Mengiste - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

1974, and Ethiopia is on the verge of revolution. Peasants starve in the drought-stricken countryside, while Emperor Haile Selassie remains sequestered in his palace, ...Read Review

The Education of Bet

By Lauren Baratz-Logsted - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Bet yearns to go away to school like her friend Will, but in 19th-century England girls are barred from traditional education. Will ...Read Review

Woods Runner

By Gary Paulsen - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

  Growing up in the frontier wilderness of western Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Samuel hears little about the growing conflict between the American colonies and ...Read Review

Mistress of Rome

By Kate Quinn - Published 2010

Genres:

Epic

Thea is a Jewish slave girl, brought to Rome to be maidservant to the spoiled beauty Lepida Pollia. Arius the Barbarian is a ...Read Review

Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears

By Diane Glancy - Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryWestern

The Trail of Tears is over, but the Cherokee who survived the punishing winter march from North Carolina to Oklahoma must now face ...Read Review

Time of the Witches

By Anna Myers - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Salem Village, 1692. Family quarrels and neighbor rivalries promise trouble in the Salem community, but 14-year-old Drucilla is blind to the building tension. An ...Read Review