Under a Pole Star
"Penney does a masterly job of melding Flora's story with the more factual accounts of polar expeditions, and many of her characters are taken from the pages of history. Penney's third novel is a gripping tale about the men and women who were driven to conquer the Arctic. Bound to appeal to admirers of Eowyn […]
Minds of Winter
In a journey shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Sir John Franklin's 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy. All 129 men were lost to the ice, and nothing from the expedition was retrieved, including two rare and valuable Greenwich chronometers. When one of the chronometers appears a century and a half […]
Eden In Winter
Kirkus Reviews 2014-05-18 Patterson (Loss of Innocence, 2013, etc.) concludes his Blaine family trilogy with Adam home on Martha's Vineyard coping with the fallout from the death of his estranged father, Benjamin, a world-famous novelist.Opening with Ben dead, this novel chronologically follows the first in the series, Fall from Grace (2012). The state is determining […]
Loss of Innocence
Library Journal : Whitney Dane, an accomplished novelist at the age of 65, recalls her tumultuous summer of 1968. After graduating from a private all-girls college, she becomes happily engaged to the likable and very suitable Peter Brooks and retreats to the Dane family home on Martha's Vineyard to while away the summer with her […]