19th Century
Black Dynasty
Black Dynasty tells the story of African-American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ruthless shopkeeper Willard Stone…
Brandy Row
Violet Allen is the daughter of a smuggler and the childhood sweetheart of Matthew Stone, a fisherman. Destiny seems to…
Utopian Man
Lang’s award-winning debut is a delight, as a novel, as biography, and as history. Based on the life of Edward…
The Streets
London 1882, and the young David Wildeblood starts work on Henry Marchmont’s staff as researcher/journalist on the weekly publication The…
The Last Runaway
Editors' choice
A young Quaker woman, Honor Bright, has left her civilized home of Bridport in England for the wild, untamed wilderness…
A Dream for Tomorrow
This is the second book in the Home on the Oregon Trail series. Although there is a slight feeling at…
The Bridegroom Wore Plaid
Ian MacGregor, Earl of Balfour, is in a bind. He can’t afford to maintain his estate, so he needs to…
Sarah Thornhill
As she did in the first book of this trilogy, The Secret River, Kate Grenville delves into her family history…
Outlaws and Lawmen
Subtitled “Great Short Stories from America’s Newest Western Writers,” this book is an anthology of short stories about the American…
Lovelier than Daylight
Residents of the highly religious town of Westerville, Ohio, were proud of the part they played in the abolition movement,…
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