Phyllis T. Smith
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant
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Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels have sparked a renewed interest in Thomas Cromwell, a man best known for engineering Anne Boleyn’s fall. ...Read Review
Death by Pastrami
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This book contains seventeen stories, some of which evoke the garment district of New York City in the early years of the 20th ...Read Review
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
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Glenn Kurtz here writes about his shock when he came across three minutes of old film shot by his grandfather, an immigrant making ...Read Review
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England’s Most Infamous Family
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In 1464, Edward IV announced he had wed Elizabeth Woodville, an event that, for better or worse, would impact English history. The Woodvilles, often ...Read Review
Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
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This biography of Dale Carnegie is as engrossing as a good novel. Born in 1888, Carnegie rose from boyhood poverty in rural Missouri. At ...Read Review
Once We Were Brothers
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Elliot Rosenzweig is supposedly a survivor of Nazi persecution in Poland. He made it big after coming to America and, now elderly, is ...Read Review
In the Mind’s Eye
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In this novella set just after World War I, Caitlin, a newly graduated psychologist interning at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, grapples ...Read Review
Roan Rose
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In this novel set in late 15th-century England, Rose Whitby, the young daughter of a peasant midwife, becomes the servant and playmate of ...Read Review
Bristol House
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Beverly Swerling’s latest work is a gripping dual-period novel that is partly a ghost story. Events in Tudor London affect the modern-day ...Read Review
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
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This extraordinary and important book is based on 20 years of research on the horrific failure of the Great Leap Forward in China in ...Read Review
