by bertbaby | Jan 24, 2014 | Book Reviews
The City of Hope is a 1840s Shaker community in search of their Visionist, a seer of mystical trances. When fifteen-year old runaway Polly Kimball seeks shelter in the City, a volatile chain of revelations is ignited.
by bertbaby | Jan 24, 2014 | Book Reviews
A neurotic’s love story, set in the fictional nation of Scalvusia in 1939. Magdalena Zyzak creates an unforgettable antihero in Barnabas, an innocent farmer lusting after the gypsy concubine who enchants his doomed village.
by bertbaby | Jan 24, 2014 | Book Reviews
A garbageman-turned-assassin roams a terrorist attacked New York of the not-so-distant future, searching for the evangelist’s daughter he’s been hired to kill, and the shocking motives of his employers. Adam Sternbergh’s gritty dystopic...
by bertbaby | Jan 24, 2014 | Book Reviews
Two new books drink in the excesses (and mornings after) of the Jazz Age.
by bertbaby | Jan 24, 2014 | Book Reviews
January 24: “And at the back of the parade, the message of the Eagle ranks was: Here’s what Scouting can do. But many people were no longer listening.”
by bertbaby | Jan 23, 2014 | Book Reviews
The Middle Ages come alive in this humorous history of the strange Habsburg dynasty, who ruled central Europe for centuries: a motley crew of sorcerers, warriors, musicians, and eccentrics who lived wildly and left immeasurable impact our modern world.
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