Janice Derr

The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler

By Peter Eisner - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

As the days passed in 1938, Pope Pius XI was becoming more and more outraged at Hitler’s persecution of European Jews. An American ...Read Review

A Girl Like You

By Maureen Lindley - Published 2013

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A Girl Like You is a coming-of-age story set during WWII. Fifteen-year-old Satomi has a white father and a Japanese mother and is ...Read Review

Walking into the Wild

By Nancy Means Wright - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

After having their home raided by Tories and Indians, the Foot children and their mother retreat south to live with relatives. The children ...Read Review

Target Lancer

By Max Allan Collins - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The novel opens with Nathan Heller, Chicago native, private investigator and owner of the A-1 Detective Agency, providing security for a man making ...Read Review

Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

By Peter Ackroyd - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

This volume is the first in an anticipated six-volume history Ackroyd is writing following England from its first inhabitants to the present day.  ...Read Review

Beautiful Ruins

By Jess Walter - Published 2012

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Beautiful Ruins begins in 1962 in Porto Vergogna, a nearly deserted village along the Italian coastline. Pasquale Tursi is trying to build up the ...Read Review

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