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The String Diaries

By Stephen Lloyd Jones - Published 2014

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A centuries-old evil stalks Hannah Wilde, an evil that purports to love her, just as it has all the women in her family ...Read Review

The Illusionists

By Rosie Thomas - Published 2014

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In Victorian London, illusionist Devil Wix’s chance encounter with dwarf performer Carlo Boldoni results in the dynamic duo of Boldoni & Wix, ...Read Review

The Victorian Detective

By Alan Moss - By Keith Skinner - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime Nonfiction

This slim little volume was a surprise – I expected a work on Victorian detectives to be a great deal more substantial. With a ...Read Review

Kill My Mother

By Jules Feiffer - Published 2014

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This graphic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Feiffer is a gender-bending take on 1930s-40s noir. In 1933, teen-aged bad apple Annie tortures her ...Read Review

The Fortune Hunter

By Daisy Goodwin - Published 2014 Published 2014-04-24

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Biographical Fiction

Little Charlotte Baird, sole heiress to the vast Lennox fortune, may look mousy, but her character is strong, forthright, and unusual – she cares ...Read Review

Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

By Eric Jager - Published 2014

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Military Nonfiction

1407, France. Charles VI periodically lapses into madness, leaving his brother, Louis, Duc d’Orléans, as de facto king during Charles’s indispositions. ...Read Review

Roosevelt’s Beast

By Louis Bayard - Published 2014

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Literary Thriller

1914. Teddy Roosevelt is a Bull Moose without a cause. Defeated for re-election, he redirects his boundless energy into an expedition to chart the ...Read Review

The Devil’s Workshop

By Alex Grecian - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

The third in the Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad series finds Inspector Walter Day investigating an implausible prison escape: a train has been ...Read Review

From the Charred Remains

By Susanna Calkins - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

This is the second in the Lucy Campion mystery series (after A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate). Former lady’s maid Lucy is ...Read Review

Rustication

By Charles Palliser - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Rustication (n): the state of having been sent down (i.e., suspended) from university; alternately, a sojourn in the country. Both are the ...Read Review