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Hetty_ The Genius and Madness o - Charles Slack
From BooklistHetty Green (1835-1916) was the only woman to make her mark in the financial markets during the Guilded Age of the late 1800s. She parlayed an inheritance of $500,000 ... -
Hell at the Breech - Tom Franklin
From Publishers WeeklyThis immensely accomplished novel by the author of the Edgar Award-winning short story collection Poachers is based on a real-life feud in the 1890s that pitt... -
Hearts of Grey - Earl E. Gobel
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 1865. The Civil War between the states is raging on. General Sherman, along with over sixty thousand Union troops, has just forced their way into Colu... -
Gypsy - Lesley Pearse
SUMMARY:Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home ...Fifteen-year-old Beth's dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister M... -
Grimm's Fairy Tales - Grimm Brothers
SUMMARY: Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began i... -
Girls_ A Novel - Frederick Busch
Amazon.com ReviewFrederick Busch's 18th work of fiction, Girls, is a novel whose roots lie buried in an earlier short story. In "Ralph the Duck," Busch introduced Jack and Franny,.... -
From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne; Lowell Bair
ReviewNovel by Jules Verne, published as De la Terre a la Lune (1865) and also published as The Baltimore Gun Club and The American Gun Club. Although the novel was subtitled Traje... -
Enigmatic Pilot_ A Tall Tale To - Kris Saknussemm
Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare. In 1844, in a still-young America,... -
England's Mistress_ The Infamou - Kate Williams
From Publishers WeeklyIn this absorbing, well-crafted biography, British historian, lecturer and TV consultant Williams charts the rise of 18th-century England's most celebrated se... -
Ecce Homo (the Autobiography of - Friedrich Nietzsche; Anthony M
SUMMARY: Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the autho...