Trudi E. Jacobson

Mr. Langshaw’s Square Piano

By Madeline Goold - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

The author’s search for a second-hand harpsichord on which to play early music led her on a journey that will fascinate the ...Read Review

Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910

By Jeffrey H. Jackson - Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

When I first encountered this book, I was intrigued, but a bit embarrassed: I’d never heard of the Paris flood of 1910. I ...Read Review

Day After Night

By Anita Diamant - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Welcome to Atlit. Meet Tedi, from Holland, who lost her sense of smell during the war, but who has regained it with a ...Read Review

The Last Illusion

By Rhys Bowen - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It is a hot, muggy July in 1903. Molly Murphy, private investigator, is lamenting her lack of new cases. She and Daniel, her police ...Read Review

The Demon Redcoat

By C. C. Finlay - Published 2009

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In this third book in the Traitor to the Crown series, Proctor Brown is still fighting the Covenant, the slippery organization that is ...Read Review

Race for the Dying

By Steven F. Havill - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

Thomas Parks of Connecticut, newly graduated from a prestigious medical school back East, arrives in Port McKinney, Washington in 1891 to take up a ...Read Review

The Book of the Maidservant

By Rebecca Barnhouse - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

After young Johanna’s mother dies and her family falls apart, she is sent to be a serving girl to Margery Kempe of ...Read Review

Rashi’s Daughters, Book lll: Rachel

By Maggie Anton - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical FictionSaga

Rachel is the third daughter of the 11th century French Talmud scholar Salomon ben Isaac, better known today as Rashi. Rachel’s story ...Read Review

A Spell for the Revolution

By C. C. Finlay - Published 2009

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This second book in the Traitor to the Crown series finds Proctor Brown and Deborah Walcott continuing their battle against the Covenant, a ...Read Review

The Palace of Strange Girls

By Sallie Day - Published 2009

Genres:

This engaging novel takes place during the summer of 1959 in the resort of Blackpool, England. Seven-year-old Beth is there with her family, her ...Read Review