Beverly Swerling, Author . Simon & Schuster $27.50 (592p) ISBN 978-0-684-87172-1
The tapestry of early American society is hung out for a fresh viewing in this ambitious historical novel of 1660s New Amsterdam. The English Turners are brother and sister, surgeon/barber and apothecary. Devoted to one another, Sally and Lucas...
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Beverly Swerling, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2812-1
Swerling's sweeping fictional account of the French and Indian War rivals Harold Coyle's 1997 novel, Savage Wilderness
, in its masterful treatment of the hardship, brutality and treachery of America's colonial wars. Covering the years...
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Beverly Swerling, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (465p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6920-9
Swerling sets her enthralling follow-up to City of Dreams
against the backdrop of the War of 1812, when New Yorkers are suffering the dire economic effects of a British blockade of American ports, and talk of secession is rife. In Manhattan, the...
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Beverly Swerling, Author . Simon & Schuster $27 (522p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4921-5
The sparkling latest in Swerling’s historical series (after City of Glory
) about the Turner and Devrey families and the growth of New York City takes place in the decades leading up to the Civil War. While in China, merchant Samuel Devrey...
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Beverly Swerling. Simon & Schuster, $26 (421p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3694-2
Swerling's latest epic reveals the extremes of New York's Gilded Age. When one-legged Joshua Turner returns home after the Civil War, New York is still a city of horse-drawn vehicles and boarding houses. With plans swirling for the Brooklyn Bridge...
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Beverly Swerling. Viking, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-02593-0
The 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Judaica possibly from Second Temple times, and a claimant to the papacy known as the Speckled Egg all figure in this predictable suspense novel from Swerling (City of Dreams). The...
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