Barry Webb
The Silk and the Sword
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This book’s title reflects Rome’s desire to control the silk trade, which meant destroying its primary competitor in the 1st century ...Read Review
The Damned of Petersburg
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The action in this novel centers on the town of Petersburg, Virginia, located just south of Richmond. In the summer and fall of 1864 ...Read Review
Tribune of the People
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The century before the emergence of Julius Caesar saw the Roman Republic devolve into a kleptocracy where a handful of wealthy senators, using ...Read Review
Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Reinvented World Religions
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In Ostler’s book, he attempts to show whether and/or how a religion changes when its message is translated from its original ...Read Review
Day of Atonement: A Novel of the Maccabean Revolt
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The story line of this debut novel revolves around the increased oppression dished out by the regime of Antiochus IV and his puppeteers ...Read Review
The Patriot Threat
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This is a book on taxes! Only a lawyer would write a novel on taxes, and only Steve Berry could turn a book ...Read Review
The Talmud: A Biography
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By “Talmud,” the author means the so-called Babylonian Talmud rather than the Jerusalem Talmud since it is the former that has had the ...Read Review
Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The language and illustrations used indicate that this is a children’s book; however, the artwork is well done and can be appreciated ...Read Review
The Maze of the Last One
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This book purports to be a novel about the last Jewish family in Iraq. While it does include some passages about a particular ...Read Review
Actium’s Wake
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Roman Senator and army officer Marcus Rutilius is portrayed, in first person point-of-view, as the perennial loser. The story begins in Egypt with ...Read Review
