Reviews

The Horus Road

By Pauline Gedge - Published 2001

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The concluding volume in the Lords of the Two Lands trilogy, this novel is Gedge’s fictional recreation of the times and struggles ...Read Review

The Raid: A Dramatic Retelling of Ireland’s Epic Tale

By Randy Lee Eickhoff - Published 1997

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Eickhoff has taken on the mammoth task of “dramatically” retelling the story of Ireland, the Tain Bo Cualigne, in several books being published ...Read Review

Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science

By Colin Beavan - Published 2001

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Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

This is a fascinating look into the history and use of fingerprints in crime detection. Beavan begins the book by recounting a terrible ...Read Review

The Disastrous Mrs.Weldon

By Brian Thompson - Published 2001

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LiteraryNonfiction

The subject of this unusual biography was born Georgina Thomas, daughter of a delusional, cruel, and pretentious Briton who later assumed the genealogically ...Read Review

Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confession of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright–Regency Author, Painter, Swindler and Probable Murderer–Woven from Historical Fragments

By Andrew Motion - Published 2000

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LiteraryMystery/CrimeNonfiction

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright began life in a household of leisured literati and ended, through attempts to maintain that life, as convict number 2325 in ...Read Review

Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman– and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America

By Alan Pell Crawford - Published 2000

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Mystery/CrimeNonfictionRomance

Unwise Passions is an engaging, thought-provoking biography that provides fascinating insight into an old scandal that wreaked havoc among several of the oldest ...Read Review

Genpei

By Kara Dalkey - Published 2001

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Historical FantasyLiterary

Imperial Japan in the twelfth century is the setting for the newest historical fantasy by the author of the Blood of the Goddess ...Read Review

The Wolf King

By Alice Borchardt - Published 2001

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Historical FantasyThriller

Although some readers may want to read Ms. Borchardt’s two previous novels, The Silver Wolf and Night of the Wolf, The Wolf ...Read Review

Cane River

By Lalita Tademy - Published 2001

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Biographical FictionLiterarySaga

Cane River, Lalita Tademy’s literary debut, is a stunning family saga mixed with incredible historical detail and honest, yet brutal and painful, ...Read Review

A House Named Brazil

By Audrey Schulman - Published 2000

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LiterarySaga

Fran Mourne is nearly 40. When she was seven, her father left home. At 16, her mother abandoned her. Feeling freakish, Fran has learned how ...Read Review