19th Century
The Flaw in the Blood
This is a strange book, a thriller set in Victoria’s Britain of 1861, but one with very high-class villains. It’s…
Strangely Wonderful
Reading the first page of this novel, I knew I was in for something completely different. I admit to feeling…
The Most Glorified Strip of Bunting
In 1871, the United States North Polar Expedition set sail in the Polaris, a converted river tug. Under the command…
Rhett Butler’s People
Donald McCaig’s prequel/sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With the Wind covers the years from 1843 until 1874. Even though…
Song Yet Sung
Editors' choice
Written by the author of the bestselling memoir The Color of Water, this novel is set in the 1850s. Liz,…
Hundred in the Hand
First in a series of novels about the American West from the Lakota perspective, Marshall tells the events leading up…
El Tigre
El Tigre is the tale of Johann Heinrich von Manfred, born of Prussian parents during the Napoleonic Wars in 1813.…
The Night Birds
American history, the natives versus the new settlers, does not make pretty reading. The Night Birds is a fictional telling…
Sarah, My Beloved
Sarah Woodward believes God led her to answer an ad for a bride through the Marriage Made in Heaven Agency,…
Loving Liza Jane
Bostonian Liza Merriwether arrives in 1895 Little Hickman, Kentucky, to become the new schoolteacher. The school board’s rules forbid “inappropriate…
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