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Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-Fiction, ReferenceGenres: Health, Historical, Nonfiction, Organ Transplants, Reference, TransplantsPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 05/10/2022Description Paul Craddock’s Spare Parts offers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story of transplant surgery Read more
Social Media Facebook Twitter Categories: History, Non-Fiction Author: Neil Bradbury Genres: Nonfiction, Poison, True Crime Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: 2/1/2022 A brilliant blend of science and crime, A TASTE FOR POISON reveals how eleven notorious poisons affect the body–through the murders Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Allison PatakiGenres: Fiction, Historical FictionPublisher: Ballantine BooksPublished: 2/15/2022Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Rachel TretheweyGenres: History, Nonfiction, Political FiguresPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 12/7/2021As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill’s daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey’s biography, The Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Helen RappaportGenres: Nonfiction, Russian HistoryPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 3/8/2022From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Fiction, HistoryAuthor: Shelley NoldenGenres: Diseases, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Medical, Mystery, Sci-Fi, ThrillerPublisher: Freiling PublishingPublished: 3/23/2021In the shadows of New York City lies forbidden North Brother Island, where the remains of a shuttered hospital hide the haunting memories of Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Fiction, HistoryAuthor: Ellen AlpstenGenres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, House of Romanov, Russian History, Women’s FictionPublisher: St. Martin’s GriffinPublished: 3/15/2022Ellen Alpsten’s stunning novel, The Tsarina’s Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Fiction, HistoryAuthor: J.P. O’ConnellGenres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Italy 1920sPublisher: Blackstone PublishingPublished: 1/18/2022Hotel Portofino has been open for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests are demanding and hard Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Fiction, HistoryAuthor: Natalie JennerGenres: Fiction, General Fiction (Adult), Historical FictionPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 5/17/2022The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Gail CrowtherGenres: Anne Sexton, Biographies, History, Memoirs, Nonfiction, Sylvia PlathPublisher: Gallery BooksPublished: 4/20/2021A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—became bitter rivals and, Read more