Phyllis T. Smith

Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma

By Diana Birchall - Published 2008

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As Queen Victoria assumes the throne, the former Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice and her husband Mr. Darcy discover that their two ...Read Review

Agamemnon’s Daughter

By David Bellos (trans.) - By Ismail Kadare - Published 2007 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

Genres:

LiteraryShort Stories

Tyranny is the theme of this absorbing novella and two short stories. Written by Albania’s best known novelist, who experienced totalitarianism firsthand, ...Read Review

In the Meantime

By Robin Lippincott - Published 2007

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Saga

I Kathryn, Starling, and Luke meet as young children in small-town America in 1931, and become fast friends. In this novel, we follow their ...Read Review

The Darcys Give a Ball : A Gentle Joke, Jane Austen Style

By Elizabeth Newark - Published 2008

Genres:

Romance

Queen Victoria is on the throne, and the children of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy of Pride and Prejudice are young adults. Their ...Read Review

Scottsboro

By Ellen Feldman - Published 2007Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

  In Alabama in 1931, young people hitching rides on a freight train have a brawl. A group of white boys are driven from ...Read Review

Angel of Vengeance : The ‘Girl Assassin’, the Governor of St Petersburg, and Russia’s Revolutionary World

By Ana Siljak - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  This volume focuses on the life of a woman revolutionary in Tsarist Russia, Vera Zasulich, who in 1878 shot the governor of St. ...Read Review

My Enemy’s Cradle

By Sara Young - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

  Cyrla, child of a Polish Jewish father and a Dutch mother, is sent to live with her late mother’s family in ...Read Review

Song Yet Sung

By James McBride - Published 2008

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/CrimeRomance

Written by the author of the bestselling memoir The Color of Water, this novel is set in the 1850s. Liz, a runaway slave, ...Read Review

Lady of the Roses

By Sandra Worth - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In this novel, we see the War of the Roses through the eyes of Isobel, the wife of Sir John Neville, brother of ...Read Review

Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson

By Alan Pell Crawford - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

At the age of sixty-six, Thomas Jefferson left the presidency and retired to his beloved home in Monticello. He died, famously on the 4...Read Review