William Thornton

The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans “Mafia” Trials, and the Parish Prison Mob

By Tom Smith - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

The record surrounding lynchings, race killings and mass crowd hysteria in American history has grown exponentially in the past ten years. Smith’s ...Read Review

White Shadow

By Ace Atkins - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureMystery/Crime

The true-life murder of 1950s-era straw-hatted Tampa crime boss Charlie Wall sets off a chain of events in this noir-on-steroids thriller. You want ...Read Review

Edith Wharton

By Hermione Lee - Published 2007

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Nonfiction

The most well-known of Wharton’s novels, The Age of Innocence, allows a window into the life of this remarkable woman, as Lee’...Read Review

Heyday

By Kurt Andersen - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

For those who enjoyed Kurt Andersen’s Turn of the Century, with its picture of New York City around the year 2000, his historical ...Read Review

John’s Story: The Last Eyewitness (Book One of the Jesus Chronicles)

By Jerry B. Jenkins - By Tim LaHaye - Published 2007

Genres:

Inspirational

This latest novel from the authors of the “Left Behind” series floats an interesting premise: a novel about the writing of a book. ...Read Review

Finn

By Jon Clinch - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

Huckleberry Finn’s drunken father is the inspiration for this novel, which owes more to William Faulkner in style than the easy, conversational ...Read Review

Openwork

By Adria Bernardi - Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

Using the image of close needlework – where patterns are formed by holes in the cloth – Bernardi tells a cross-generational story of Italian families ...Read Review

Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials

By Bill Neal - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Human life was cheap on the old frontier, unless one shot a horse. That’s only one of the conclusions to be drawn ...Read Review