Beth Kanell
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue
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Buddy Levy’s previous retellings of history’s “big adventures” provide a strong foundation for the way he evokes personalities, ambitions, pain, despair, ...Read Review
Murder at King’s Crossing (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery)
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This Wrexford and Sloane Regency mystery, eighth in the series, entangles the exhilarating family of the Earl of Wrexford and his (secret editorial ...Read Review
The Great When: A Long London Novel
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
Long paragraphs and unusual sentence constructions make immersion into The Great When challenging. Teenaged Dennis Knuckleyard works in a secondhand bookstore in a ...Read Review
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
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The distance between 1922 and 1987 in terms of women’s lives and careers is the backdrop of Lynda Cohen Loigman’s romance between two ...Read Review
The Colony Club
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After the first few pages of this 1902-1907 New York City-based historical novel that tracks the dramatic changes in women’s lives at ...Read Review
Of Gold and Shadows (Time’s Lost Treasures)
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In 1888 England, the British Museum, just over a century old, hungrily absorbed archaeological artifacts with little care for their provenance. At least that’...Read Review
A Botanist’s Guide to Society and Secrets (A Saffron Everleigh Mystery)
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This clever British mystery blends mystery, suspense, the between-wars (1923) anxiety of women’s labor being easily discounted, and a passion for plants and ...Read Review
Death and Glory (A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, 16)
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More than a dozen books into his Barker and Llewelyn series, Will Thomas offers his skilled hand with descriptions of 1894 London and an ...Read Review
Forgetting to Remember
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M. J. Rose’s European art mystery begins with a cryptic prologue set in 1790, as Marie Antoinette poses for a highly unusual portrait: ...Read Review
Village Weavers
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Myriam Chancy’s two-family story of Port-Au-Prince in Haiti begins in 1941 with two young girls, a world apart economically but drawn into a ...Read Review
