19th Century

The Orchid and the Emerald

By Timothy David Mack - Published 2022

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William Gunn travels to South America in search of a rare orchid said to possess great healing powers, both to satisfy the behest ...Read Review

Devotion

By Hannah Kent - Published 2022

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Literary

Devotion starts as a beautifully written historical novel, set in Prussia in the 1830s. Hanne is an outsider to her close-knit, highly religious ...Read Review

The Truth Keepers

By June Hall McCash - Published 2022

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Saga

In January of 1793, the French king loses his head during the country’s revolution. For young Amelia Nicolau, this is just the beginning, ...Read Review

Fierce Poison (A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, 13)

By Will Thomas - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

London, 1893. Former barrister and now Member of Parliament Roland Fitzhugh suddenly dies while entering the offices of Private Enquiry partners Cyrus Barker and ...Read Review

The Midwife

By Tricia Cresswell - Published 2022

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In 1838, a woman is discovered close to death on the Northumberland moorland. Joanna (later known as Mrs. Sharp) has no memory of her ...Read Review

Westland

By Michelle Muriel - Published 2022

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This sequel to Essie’s Roses is set just after the U.S. Civil War. Evie’s mother Katie, now dead, had been ...Read Review

Dark Fortune

By Theresa Tomlinson - Published 2021

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Children/Young Adult

Whitby, Yorkshire, 1861, after her fisherman father is injured in a storm, teenage Lina Raw must leave school and scavenge on the beach to ...Read Review

To Marry and to Meddle (The Regency Vows 3)

By Martha Waters - Published 2022

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Romance

It has been six seasons since she made her debut, and still Lady Emily Turner is not married. Though her reputation is spotless, ...Read Review

A Woman of Endurance

By Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa - Published 2022

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Puerto Rico, 1850. Pola is torn from her home on the west coast of Africa and sold into slavery. She works the sugar cane ...Read Review

The Bee & The Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott & Emily Dickinson

By Jane Cavolina - By Lorraine Tosiello - Published 2022

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Biographical Fiction

What if Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson secretly wrote to each other for twenty-five years? In this epistolary novel, the collaborative effort ...Read Review