Bethany Latham

Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

By Pat Shipman - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

Misperceptions about Mata Hari abound—many due to the persona that she herself promulgated with convenient lies. Though often thought to be of ...Read Review

Nefertiti: A Novel

By Michelle Moran - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionRomance

Nefertiti is chosen to marry Amunhotep IV, heir to the throne of Egypt, and her future of power and wealth seems assured. Her ...Read Review

The Renaissance Popes: Statesmen, Warriors and the Great Borgia Myth

By Gerard Noel - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

To say the Renaissance popes were not known for their morality would be an understatement, but neither were some of them, Noel asserts, ...Read Review

Luncheon of the Boating Party

By Susan Vreeland - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Paris, 1880. Pierre-Auguste Renoir is thirty-nine, his enchantment with the revolutionary Impressionist style is fading, and the movement threatens to splinter. Renoir paints society ...Read Review

Conan Doyle, Detective: The True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes

By Peter Costello - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective, didn’t confine his interest in criminology to the pages of his fiction. Though ...Read Review

Liszt’s Kiss

By Susanne Dunlap - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Paris, 1832. A cholera epidemic rages, and Anne de Barbier-Chouant has lost her beloved mother to its deadly grasp. Alone in the crumbling family ...Read Review

The Gods of Newport

By John Jakes - Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

In Gilded Age Newport, wealth and social status are all; wars are fought on tennis courts and in ballrooms; and the arbiters of ...Read Review

The Red Chrysanthemum

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Sano Ichiro, chamberlain to the shōgun, finds himself in the most difficult situation he’s ever faced (and he’s faced some—...Read Review

Queen of Shadows: A Novel of Isabella, Wife of King Edward II

By Edith Felber - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In her own time, Isabella, the much maligned wife of the English king Edward II, was known as the She-Wolf of France because, ...Read Review

Marta’s Promise

By Jeanne Dennis - By Sheila Seifert - Published 2006

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

In 1766, many German Protestant religious minorities respond to Russia’s offer of open immigration, which includes free farmland, and they risk imprisonment and ...Read Review