Dana Cohlmeyer

Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs

By Mary E. Lyons - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Having reworked the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs (escaped slave turned abolitionist and once as famous as Frederick Douglass) in Letters From a Slave ...Read Review

Someone Named Eva

By Joan M. Wolf - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

‘Remember, Milada. Remember who you are. Always.’ Those are the words Milada’s grandma said to her the night the Nazi soldiers appeared ...Read Review

The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish

By Elise Blackwell - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

Hurricane Katrina’s bearing down on New Orleans and the apartment of 90-year-old Louis Proby. The authorities are saying it’s going to ...Read Review

Queen of Swords

By Sara Donati - Published 2006 (US)Published 2007 (UK)

Genres:

AdventureSaga

Sara Donati revives the sweeping, no-holds-barred historical sagas of the 1970s and 1980s in Queen of Swords, the fifth book in her Bonner ...Read Review

Cotton Song

By Tom Bailey - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

Cotton Song opens with social worker Baby Allen bumping her Model T down a dry and dusty 1940s Mississippi road on her way ...Read Review

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

By David Damrosch - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

The Buried Book begins with the 19th century rediscovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh – the world’s first accounting of the Great Flood – ...Read Review

Slay Bells

By Kate Kingsbury - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Pray for a rainy day! It’ll give you the perfect excuse to curl up with Kate Kingsbury’s latest book in the ...Read Review

Here, There Be Dragons: The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica

By James A. Owen - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

The author’s note at the end of Here, There Be Dragons, says it best: “The most interesting stories are those that have ...Read Review

When The Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

By Justin Kaplan - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Telling the tale of New York’s famed Astor family, this book takes readers from the family’s humble beginnings in the German ...Read Review

Tinisima

By Elena Poniatowska (trans. Katherine Silver) - Published 2006 (c. 1996)

Genres:

Tinisima opens with a vibrant description of the assassination of Julio Antonio Mella, a Cuban revolutionary fighting in 1920s Mexico, and captures the ...Read Review