18th Century
Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture
Up until the beginning of the 20th century, few people realized that Thomas Jefferson was also one of the nation’s…
An Aristocratic Affair: The life of Georgiana’s Sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough
Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough, had always been overshadowed by her more flamboyant sister, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire but she…
The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life
Could there be a new biography that reveals anything unexpected about the Founding Father? Possibly, but this isn’t it. Unger…
The High Road To China: George Bogel, The Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet
This is an extraordinary tale of a young Glaswegian, George Bogle, who developed a genuine friendship with the incarnation of…
The King’s Lizard: A Tale of Murder and Deception in Old Santa Fe in 1782
Nando Anguilar is the young son of a Spanish don and a Ute slave. Captured and taken as a…
Brookland
The novel opens with a confessional letter from an unusual woman to her grown daughter, Recompense, living far from…
Game of Patience
When two people are found murdered in post-revolutionary Paris, police agent Aristide Ravel investigates. Ravel discovers the male victim…
Young Bloods
This is the first in a quartet of novels about Wellington and Napoleon, covering the years 1769-1795. Arthur Wesley…
Any Approaching Enemy
After an American spy tells him of a French fleet amassing in the Mediterranean, Charles Edgemont, captain of His…
Abundance
Editors' choice
The author of the bestselling Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund takes on a true historical figure this time, in…
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