Michael I. Shoop
The Pilgrim
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Young Charles Wentworth, motherless from infancy, is raised by his beloved Puritan minister father to lead a pious life in early 17th-century England. ...Read Review
Three Maids for a Crown
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Set during the turbulent era of Tudor England, the dramatic story of Lady Jane Grey and her sisters, Katherine and Mary, is vibrantly ...Read Review
The Rage of Achilles
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From its opening pages in which a young servant girl (who may or may not be Achilles’s mother) in the house of ...Read Review
The Women Who Loved Jefferson
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A fresh look at our nation’s third President through the women in his life. Scharff, incorporating recent research, provides a series of ...Read Review
Rival to the Queen
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Not since Victoria Holt’s My Enemy the Queen (1978) have I encountered another novel about the complex rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and ...Read Review
Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal
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Ramsay’s novel gives a fresh perspective on Judas Iscariot, the most hated man in the New Testament. Setting his subject firmly within ...Read Review
The Philosopher Prince
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Set in 355 AD, the book follows on an earlier novel by Waters, Cast Not the Day. It opens with Aquinus’s funeral at ...Read Review
Notorious Royal Marriages
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Sex! Intrigue! Scandal! Carroll’s newest offering chronicles well-known matrimonial pairings among European royals during the last 900 years. With a breezy and lively ...Read Review
The Bible Salesman
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Southern writer Edgerton has never disappointed me with his stories of gentle humor about the South. His latest novel takes place during the ...Read Review
Sphinx’s Princess
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Aimed at a young adult audience, Friesner’s novel portrays Nefertiti as a dutiful, lively, and intelligent teenage girl, growing up in a ...Read Review
