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The Fallen Sky - Christopher Cokinos
From The New YorkerIn 1894, fifteen years before his storied expedition to the North Pole, Robert Peary crossed a treacherous expanse of ice in Greenland in search of another prize... -
The Edinburgh Dead - Brian Ruckley
Product DescriptionEdinburgh 1827. In the starkly-lit operating theatres of the city, grisly experiments are being carried out on corpses in the name of medical science. But elsewh... -
The Eden Hunter_ A Novel - Skip Horack
From Publishers WeeklyLouisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Sp... -
The Dragon Turn_ The Boy Sherlo - Shane Peacock
Product DescriptionSummer 1869, and Sherlock Holmes and his friend Irene celebrate her sixteenth birthday by attending the theater to watch a celebrated magician make a real dragon... -
The Daughter's Walk - Jane Kirkpatrick
A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to wal... -
The Complete Poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Willia
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative frie... -
The Complete Poems - John Keats
Keats�s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his poli... -
The Authentic Life of Billy the - Pat F. Garrett; Fredrick Nolan
More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Auth... -
The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr
From Library JournalDr. Lazlo Kreizler, protagonist of The Alienist (LJ 3/1/94), is back with his idiosyncratic companions in Carr's latest mystery thriller. Set in 1897 New York a... -
The American Plague - Molly Caldwell Crosby
From Publishers WeeklyIn a summer of panic and death in 1878, more than half the population of Memphis, Tenn., fled the raging yellow fever epidemic, which finally waned when coole...