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A royal scam in 15th century England

A royal scam in 15th century England

One day in 1480 a nameless nobleman and a priest show up at Will Collan's farm. They've come for his 12-year-old son, John. As they explain to the boy, he's not John Collan but a legitimate claimant to the English throne. As a small child, his partisans had hidden him away in...

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Worm by Mark Bowden is about malicious hackers.

How malicious hackers almost brought down the Internet — and still could

It's out there. Waiting. Chances are, you've never heard of it. Nobody knows who controls it, or why. Only that they're malicious hackers. No one knows what it will do. But its destructive capacity is terrifying. Welcome to the world of cyber war! And, no, this is NOT science fiction. "It" is the...
Amphitrite is a newly discovered planet.

Journey to a newly discovered planet far out from the sun

Four humans and a cleaning robot with a mind of its own are on their way in a stolen spaceship to a newly discovered planet beyond the orbit of Neptune. Amphitrite, the title of this book as well as the new planet's name, is the entertaining story of why they're on their way and what happens when...
Cover image of "Falling Free" by Lois McMaster Bujold, the debut of a sci-fi series

The debut of an outstanding, long-running sci-fi series

For some time I've known that Lois McMaster Bujold is one of best of the contemporary science fiction writers. She's won the Hugo Award five times and the Nebula three times. Somehow, though, I've managed not to read any of her work until now. I guess my rationalization is that she's primarily...
Nighttown is a hilarious crime novel.

A legendary burglar, a beautiful hitwoman, and a seven-foot killer

So, here's the deal. Junior Bender chose to accept a cockamamie proposition to rob a deserted house for entirely too much money. Even knowing someone might try to kill him for taking the job. Junior and his girlfriend, Ronnie Bigelow, "were planning an operation to kidnap her two-year-old son from...
Cover image of "Cadillac Jukebox," an example of Louisiana noir

The master of Louisiana noir

Veteran detective Dave Robicheaux of the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department is reluctantly drawn into a case involving the decades-old assassination of Louisiana's leading NAACP leader. Aaron Crown is serving time for the murder but protests his innocence, and a Hollywood film crew seems bent on...
The Bombay Prince

Murder in Bombay during the Indian independence movement

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes When Britain's Crown Prince Edward strode through the Gateway of India in Bombay late in 1921, the subcontinent was seething with unrest. Thousands of loyalists turned out to gain a glimpse of the glamorous royal. But the city as a whole was quiet. Civil...
Cover image of "Just One Damned Thing After Another"

Historians blunder around in the past in this time travel story

You think you know what you're in for after the first 29 words in the book. First, the author writes, "I made all this up. Historians and physicists—please do not spit on me in the street." Then she quotes Arnold Toynbee, who was not the first to express the sentiment (and didn't actually mean...
Origin Story is a survey of Big History.

A survey of Big History by the man who created the field

Origin Story is historian David Christian's valiant effort to cram the history of the universe into 300 pages. Historians typically trace the beginning of human history to the time some 5,000 years ago when people started committing language to writing. After all, history as practiced in academia...
Cover image of "The Warsaw Uprising,"

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944

No country in the world suffered greater devastation in World War II than Poland, not even the Soviet Union, where as many as twenty-seven million people died. Poland's six million dead represented an even higher proportion of the pre-war population—about one in five. And Poland's cities lay in...
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

The last of the Wayfarers series from Becky Chambers

Most Americans think about extraterrestrials in one of two ways. Either the white-faced, goggle-eyed humanoid with an enormous head reported by UFO fantasists. Or the grim-looking denizens of the cantina in the original Star Wars film. But in the final entry in the Becky Chambers series, The...

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