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by Matthew Pearl
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsThe acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl's spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word "technology" represents a bold and frightening new concept.
by Barry Werth
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsIn Banquet at Delmonicos, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwins controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War.
by Louis Bayard
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsVidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of Frances most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mysterythe fate of the young dauphin ...
by Julian Barnes
Published Dec 2006
Read ReviewsAn utter astonishment that captures an era through one life celebrated internationally - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and another entirely forgotten - George Edalji.
by Matthew Pearl
Published Feb 2004
Read ReviewsA magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.
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