All Old Books

Set between Williamsberg, London and Europe during WW1, and in the confused and heady years afterwards. Following the lives and loves of characters from earlier novels and their descendants, including Richmond twins Calvert and Camilla, against a vivid historical backdrop

Spanning America and Europe in the carefree years before 1914. Phoebe Sprague is torn between her childhood sweetheart and English Captain Oliver Campion, until the advent of war tears them apart.

An American historical novel set during the last days of British colonial rule in Williamsberg, Virginia. Human stories behind the War of Independence, mixing fictional and historical characters, "living through war to the dawn of a better world."

Beginning his research after hearing of an old country woman who used the herb to cure dropsy, Withering used foxglove to treat congestive heart failure with some success. Its introduction into the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia in 1783 and its subsequent widespread acceptance eventually led to its overuse and Withering's classic Account of the Foxglove was actually written as a protest against such abuse. The book includes 163 cases involving the use of digitalis and is regarded as one of the classics in pharmacology (Heirs of Hippocrates 1039)