Elisabeth Lenckos

The Spy

By Paulo Coelho - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Why was an adventuress, who rose to notoriety as an exotic dancer in pre-World War I Paris, executed by firing squad in 1917? Was ...Read Review

If I Could Tell You

By Elizabeth Wilhide - Published 2016Published 2017

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Does war unravel the fabric of traditional society or merely highlight the pre-existing tears in an already frail material? When Julia Compton, the ...Read Review

The Afterlife of Stars

By Josef Kertes - Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

Budapest, 1956. The childhood of Robert Beck ends abruptly when the Hungarian Revolution is crushed and his family forced to flee to Paris. Finding ...Read Review

The Black Orchid: A Lady Jane Mystery

By Annis Bell - By Edwin Miles (trans.) - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Holmes and Watson, make way for wife-and-husband team Lady Jane and Captain David Prescott, amateur detectives intent on solving two ghastly murders—the ...Read Review

Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters’ Eyes

By Paul Staiti - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

This well-researched and elegantly written art-historical study, which examines the role painting played in promoting the ideals of the American Revolution to contemporary ...Read Review

The Dollhouse

By Fiona Davis - Published 2016

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1952. When 17-year-old Darby McLaughlin moves from Defiance, Ohio to New York to take a secretarial course, she quickly falls under the spell of ...Read Review

Death at the Boston Tea Party: A John Rawlings Mystery

By Deryn Lake - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

When an actress, traveling under an aristocratic alias, falls to her death from the riggings of a ship in the wake of the ...Read Review

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

By Marie Jalowicz Simon - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

When in November 1942, Marie Jalowicz Simon, after a failed attempt to escape Nazi Germany with a forged passport, is forcibly returned to Berlin, ...Read Review

The French Lesson

By Hallie Rubenhold - Published 2016

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1792. Henrietta Lightfoot, the 19-year-old daughter of an earl, has left behind her country and respectability to live as the paramour of George William ...Read Review

The Death of Kings

By Michael Evans - Published 2003

Genres:

Nonfiction

In this fascinating study, Evans traces the dramatic stories of the royal deaths of kings from Harold at Hastings to Richard III at ...Read Review