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Innocent Heroes: Stories of Animals in the First World War

By Sigmund Brouwer - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

This unique book tells the story of three men in a fictional Canadian platoon during the First World War, leading up to the ...Read Review

The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas

By Harriet Scott Chessman - Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Artist Edgar Degas spent the winter of 1872-73 with his brother’s family in New Orleans. No sketchbook of his time there has ...Read Review

The Illusion of Innocence

By Jacqueline Jacques - Published 2016Published c2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The year is 1897, and a train carrying a vicious murderer to his trial crashes east of London. Amid the confusion, death, and injuries, ...Read Review

Wild Wicked Scot

By Julia London - Published 2016

Genres:

Romance

This novel’s title reveals its genre. A rough-around-the-edges Scottish laird marries a delicate English lady at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion. ...Read Review

A Villa Far from Rome

By Sheila Finch - Published 2017

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AD 66: the Romans have conquered much of Britain, and the tribes live uncomfortably beside a powerful military force. Insurrections still occur, but some ...Read Review

Lord of the Privateers

By Stephanie Laurens - Published 2016

Genres:

AdventureNauticalRomance

The year is 1824, and Royd Frobisher, the Lord of the Privateers, has been summoned from Aberdeen by the English spymaster to undertake a ...Read Review

The Dressmaker’s Dowry

By Meredith Jaeger - Published 2017

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In her first novel, Meredith Jaeger links a present-day San Francisco career woman with two immigrant dressmakers from the mid-19th century. They ...Read Review

Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angel

By Mignon F. Ballard - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in the American South in 1944, this mystery conveys strongly the pressures of war on those left behind. Not only do the characters ...Read Review

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

By John Preston - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

The title precisely describes this book: an account of events leading up to the murder trial of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe. His ...Read Review

Eleanor and Hick: The Love that Shaped a First Lady

By Susan Quinn - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

Susan Quinn’s subtitle frames her biography about the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok, known to her friends as “Hick.” ...Read Review