Giordano Bruno: Philosopher /Heretic

A pioneering life of the legendary thinker who influenced the thought of Galileo and Shakespeare -- and was burned at the stake as heretic in 1600 in Rome's Campo dei Fiori. Now in paperback.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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