Reviews

Prelude to Glory, v.1: Our Sacred Honor

By Ron Carter - Published 1998

Genres:

LiteraryMilitarySaga

Ron Carter is a deeply religious individual who intends his multi-volume work on the Dunson family of Boston to serve as an example ...Read Review

Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works

By Robert Nye - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

This is Anne Hathaway’s story, written years after her husband has died. Her daughter Susanna has given her a beautiful book of ...Read Review

The Sea Hath Spoken

By Stephen Lewis - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this 3rd in a Colonial New England crime series, Quaker sister and brother Richard and Jane Whitcomb arrive from England, landing at ...Read Review

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

By (tr. William Scott Wilson; abridged) - By Eiji Yoshikawa - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionEpicMilitary

This book spans a period between 1536 and 1583, and is essentially the story (very well-known there) of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s rise from street brat ...Read Review

Much Ado About Love

By Malia Martin - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureRomance

William Shakespeare’s plays may have been written by a number of other people, or so it’s claimed, but the premise of ...Read Review

Duchess

By Murray Levine - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionInspirationalLiterary

The Duchess of the title is Diane de Poitiers, one-time mistress to the King of France, François I, and thereafter, full-time mistress ...Read Review

A Mystery of Errors

By Simon Hawke - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

After viewing a performance by a traveling theater troupe, stage-struck apprentice blacksmith Symington “Tuck” Smythe leaves his country village and heads for London, ...Read Review

The Poyson Garden

By Karen Harper - Published (c1999)Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

“Down wi’ the Boleyns, e’en the royal one!” is the cry of a group dedicated to the destruction of the Boleyn family, ...Read Review

The Real People Series

By Robert J. Conley - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureLiteraryMilitary

Individual titles are: The Way of the Priests (ISBN 0806132728), The Dark Way (0806132736), The White Path (0806132744), The Way South (0806132752), The Long Way Home (0806132760), The ...Read Review

To Ruin a Queen

By Fiona Buckley - Published 2000

Genres:

Adventure

Fiona Buckley draws the reader into the story with her lively and fluid first-person narration: “The journey that took me from the Châ...Read Review