19th Century
The Ever-After Bird
At the recent HNS Conference, my suspicions were confirmed that the term “young adult” is now a pseudonym for “anything…
At Ellis Island: A History In Many Voices
This is a wonderful picture book to add to a collection of immigration tales. Louise Peacock has done a marvelous…
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
“But words, Mrs. Keller, words bridge the gaps between two minds. Words are a miracle.” Comforting Helen Keller’s mother, Anne…
Mississippi Jack
Jacky Faber, the irrepressible Napoleonic-era street-urchin-turned-ship’s-boy-turned-fine-lady-turned pirate, is once again in the thick of trouble in this fifth installment of…
Kiss Me Goodbye: Finding Love Among the Ashes of the Civil War
In 1861, the author’s great-grandfather, James McCormick, is an Irish Catholic immigrant who lives in Potsdam, New York. He is…
Diamond in the Sky
Thadeus McElwain came to Leadville, Colorado, shortly after the Silver Panic of 1893. All he wanted was to leave behind…
Outlaw Hearts
Outlaw Hearts suffers from what I’d like to term the Coincidence Plot (akin to movie critic Roger Ebert’s Idiot Plot,…
Remembered
Véronique Girard’s mother has recently died, and it transpires that Lord Marchand, both her and her mother’s employer, has arranged…
Master and Commander
What can a reviewer say about Patrick O’Brian? He is a classic, or at least his Aubrey & Maturin series…
Bachelor’s Puzzle
Zach Hartley has been on the run ever since he fled an abusive stepfather at the age of twelve, but…
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