Series: Old New York
by Author Beverly Swerling
City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York (2008)
Beverly Swerling did a very good job of making history interesting in this book. The plot was complicated enough to keep me reading, which is usually hard, and kept me from guessing exactly what would happen next; I did occasionally get the feeling of "oh-no-I-know-what-this-character-is-going-t...
City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan (2002)
I'm so glad this was good because it's very long and has very tiny type. Sometimes when it takes me this long to read a book, I feel like I'm stuck in it and all I can think about is what I want to read next. I almost didn't want this one to end. It was all so interesting and well-written. I love...
City of Glory: A Novel of War and Desire in Old Manhattan (2007)
Beverly Swerling calls her latest epic about the early history of Manhattan "a novel of war and desire," but it contains a lot more desire than war. In fact, war is pretty far down its list of ingredients -- below pirates, prostitutes, runaway slaves, Chinese gangsters, man-eating rats, kidnappin...