Khayyam Maquet is determined to make her mark as an art historian, but she finds herself disillusioned and distracted by both a scholarly setback and a not-quite boyfriend who is… Read more »
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Rachel Strolle, Teen Librarian, Glenside Public Library District
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know follows two Muslim girls, separated by centuries, as one tries to track down the missing history of the other. Readers will be entranced as Khayyam… Read more »
Julia Torres, Teacher/Librarian, Denver Public Schools
Ahmed blends art history, romance, passion and purpose as vibrant brush strokes on a canvas in this passionate narrative about the power of the past to influence the present.
Amy Vidlak Girmscheid, Director, Sandwich Public Library District
If I wasn’t already a librarian, archivist and history lover I certainly would want to be after reading this. Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know is a lovely book about history, secrets,… Read more »
School Library Journal
A whirl through 19th-century hidden drawers, libraries, salons, letters, hashish clubs, mansions, and tales of squandered monies with a descendant of Alexander Dumas and a determined young Muslim woman, on… Read more »
Publishers Weekly
A multi- faceted blend of contemporary and historical intrigue.