Eva Ulett

Island: How Islands Transform the World

By J. Edward Chamberlin - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

Island is a compact but dense study of ocean islands from cultural, biological, geological, literary, and historical perspectives. There is much interesting information ...Read Review

Captain’s Wife: Narrative of a Voyage in the Schooner Antarctic 1829, 1830, 1831

By Abby Jane Morrell - Published 2012

Genres:

NauticalNonfiction

This firsthand account by a woman of a voyage to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific is part of the publisher’s Seafarers’ ...Read Review

Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth

By Katherine Frank - Published 2011Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that century ...Read Review

The Anatomy of Death

By Felicity Young - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Doctor Dody McCleland returns to her London home from Edinburgh, having completed a course in autopsy surgery. Dody finds her sister Florence heavily ...Read Review

A Queen’s Journey

By James D. Houston - Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1896, Boston freelance journalist Julius Palmer receives a summons from the deposed monarch of Hawaii, Lili’uokalani. When they’d first become acquainted ...Read Review

The Journey of Anders Sparrman

By Per Wästberg - By Tom Geddes (trans.) - Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The Journey of Anders Sparrman is a biographical novel of the life of the 18th-century naturalist, explorer, and physician. The narrative begins in ...Read Review

La Llorona, the Crying Woman

By Amy Córdova (illus.) - By Enrique Lamadríd (trans.) - By Rudolfo Anaya - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Maya is born in ancient Mexico with a sunburst birthmark on her shoulder. She is declared to be a child of the Sun ...Read Review

The Soldier

By Grace Burrowes - Published 2011

Genres:

Romance

Devlin St. Just, the eldest though illegitimate son of the duke of Moreland, returns from years of war on the Spanish peninsula and ...Read Review

The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children

By Brendan Connell - Published 2011

Genres:

LiteraryShort Stories

Eleven tales are collected in The Life of Polycrates and other Stories for Antiquated Children, ranging in period from ancient Greece to the 20...Read Review

The Perfect Mistress

By Victoria Alexander - Published 2011

Genres:

Romance

Proper Victorian Harrison, Lord Montdale, is distressed to discover a memoir on the point of publication detailing Lady Hermione Middlebury’s salacious affairs. ...Read Review