19th Century
This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust, the first female president of Harvard University, provides us with an extraordinarily well-researched and superbly written…
Listen to the Mockingbird
Every good mystery begins with a murder, and Penny Rudolph’s Listen to the Mockingbird doesn’t disappoint: a young stranger…
A Daughter’s Inheritance
Set in upstate New York (Rochester and Broadmoor Island, a fictional island in the Thousand Island region of the St.…
The Aquila Project
London, June 1894. The Prince of Wales arrives to open Tower Bridge; the police discover a bomb in one of…
Trail of the Red Butterfly
In 1807, a Cheyenne warrior named Stone learns that his twin brother, Whirlwind, is missing after leading a raid into…
Courting Shadows
One would be hard-pressed to find a more unpleasant protagonist than John Stannard. A young architect commissioned in 1881 to…
Healing Water
Imagine being fourteen and diagnosed with a deadly disease. Now imagine being torn away from the loving arms of…
Starlight over Simla
Rose Fielding is bored stiff with the lifestyle that Edwardian London offers her: endless rounds of fancy balls and tea…
The Third Circle
In Leona Hewitt’s desperation to get back the aurora stone, a crystal that was stolen from her mother, she dresses…
Valerie
This is a Regency romp first published in America in 1987 and now published in Britain. Valerie, the eponymous heroine…
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