Tag: history
One Summer
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/02/16/one-summer/
Title: One Summer: America 1927 Author: Bill Bryson Publisher: Doubleday, 2013 Summary/Review: Reading this book is like having a friendly historian take you by the arm and walk you through a momentous summer in America a long time ago – 1927. Not just any...
The Swerve
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/07/27/the-swerve/
Title: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Author: Stephen Greenblatt (narrated by Edoardo Ballerini) Publisher: WW Norton, 2012 Summary/Review: Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and is a historian. His most recent book ,winner of the 2012...
The King’s Rose
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/05/13/the-kings-rose/
Title: The King’s Rose Author: Alisa M. Libby Summary: It is not until she is sent back to Lambeth Palace, her childhood home, that Catherine Howard is informed of her impending future: she will be King Henry’s fifth wife just as soon as he...