19th Century
Billy Boy
Editors' choice
This is a fictionalized account inspired by the life of the true Billy Laird, the only American Civil War soldier…
A Dark Enchantment
1869. Young Englishman Godwin Tudor visits Athens intending to photograph antiquities, but soon discovers that modern Greece is far…
City of the Absent
If you ever craved the simpler life that was prevalent, say, before the turn of the century, reading this…
Virgin River
Based upon actual events that occurred in Utah in 1857, Virgin River is the destination for a small wagon…
Before Green Gables
In 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery first published Anne of Green Gables, the story of the irrepressible redhead who brings…
The Absent Wife
In 1811, Roslyn Meredith is new to London and its Season after a quiet country upbringing in Monmouthshire. At…
The Castaways
In this third novel in the early 19th century-set Curse of the Jolly Stone series, Tom Tin and his…
Digging up the Dead
This is a life of Sir Astley Cooper, whose accomplishments straddled the 18th and 19th centuries. He was Britain’s…
A Mending at the Edge
This is the final installment in a trilogy about the life of Emma Wagner Giesy, the first woman of the…
Woman of Iron
Set in 1830, during the Industrial Revolution in Britain, Women of Iron depicts a story of poverty, deceit, and revenge.…
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