Reviews

Digging up the Dead

By Druin Burch - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  This is a life of Sir Astley Cooper, whose accomplishments straddled the 18th and 19th centuries. He was Britain’s foremost surgeon ...Read Review

The Sparrowhawk Companion

By Edward Cline - By Jena Trammell - Published 2007

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Nonfiction

This companion to Edward Cline’s six-volume Sparrowhawk series contains seven essays, by the author and others, which nicely round out the reader’...Read Review

Lucia : A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon

By Andrea di Robilant - Published 2007Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  Lucia, daughter of a Venetian diplomat, is married off at sixteen to nobleman Alvise Mocenigo. Lucia loves her husband, but her many ...Read Review

The Queen’s Knight

By Martyn Downer - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  Sir Howard Elphinstone distinguished himself as a hero of the Crimean War at the early age of 29 for which he was awarded ...Read Review

How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries : The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past

By Kathy Lynn Emerson - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  This book presents an overview of the entire process of writing historical mysteries. It covers subjects from research, plotting, and language through ...Read Review

This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War

By Drew Gilpin Faust - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  Drew Gilpin Faust, the first female president of Harvard University, provides us with an extraordinarily well-researched and superbly written scholarly treatise on ...Read Review

The First Samurai : The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado

By Karl Friday - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  Taira Masakado, a fifth-generation descendant of Emperor Kashiwabara, is a cultured aristocrat whose response to attack prompts an appropriate response. From that ...Read Review

The Grail Enigma : The Hidden Heirs of Jesus and Mary Magdalene

By Laurence Gardner - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  The theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and founded a dynasty inextricably entwined with the search for the Holy Grail shows no ...Read Review

Was Napoleon Poisoned? And Other Unsolved Mysteries of Royal History

By Peter Haugen - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  If King Tut was murdered, why? Did King Arthur really exist? Compelling evidence suggests a Roman general may have been the basis ...Read Review

A Voyage Long and Strange : Rediscovering the New World

By Tony Horwitz - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

  Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist with a penchant for history. He also likes to re-examine all things American. Here ...Read Review