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Showing posts with label historical nonfiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical nonfiction. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

The Romanov Sisters/513 pgs/ Helen Rappaport

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This non-fiction takes a look at diaries, letters and accounts of the Romanov family before they were cruelly murdered in 1918. Although t...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Bonnie & Clyde: The Making of a Legend/KarenBlumenthal/250 pages (True Crime)

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Bonnie and Clyde:  The Making of a Legend is a new young adult book about one of America's most notorious couples.  The book opens when...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Lulu's Christmas Story / Ludmilla Bollow / 299 Pages / Christmas Challenge

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In  Lulu's Christmas Story - A True Story of Faith and Hope During the Great Depression  playwright and novelist Ludmilla Bollow (Lulu) ...
Friday, May 2, 2014

John Adams / David Mcullough 791 p. Big Book

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Reading those few lines about a signer of the Declaration of Independence in a history book hardly tells anything of the debt Americans owe ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

American lightning: terror, mystery, movie-making & the crime of the century / Howard Blum / 339 p.

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In 1910 Los Angeles, a bomb ripped through the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21 people. Enter Billy Burns, the world's most famous...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem / Rosalyn Schanzer 144 p.

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Tells the story of the victims, the accused witches, the politicians, the judges, and officials of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Two child...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Jane Austen Handbook / Margaret Sullivan / 224 Pages

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  I found this book to be an entertaining look at life in Regency England around the time that Jane Austen wrote her famous novels.  It gi...