Review: Queen Katherine and the Howards by Marilyn Roberts
Summary: Writings of certain nineteenth and twentieth-century historians continue to colour our perceptions of the past, but is the picture[…]
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Review: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Summary: Masterfully researched and eloquently written, The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions[…]
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The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
“The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real[…]
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The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
“October 1991. It was “the perfect storm”–a tempest that may happen only once in a century–a nor’easter created by so[…]
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Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
“Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic[…]
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