19th Century
Simply Love
Anne Jewell, teacher at Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Regency England, is twenty-nine, unmarried, and independent. She is also…
Murder In Little Italy
In the turbulent immigrant neighborhoods of late 1890s New York, Tammany Hall ward heelers juggle political power while other ethnic…
The Judas Field
Living a sad, lonely and alcoholic life in Mississippi in 1885, Cass Wakefield is asked to accompany a widow of…
The Colonel And Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America
Larry McMurtry recounts the life stories of two 19th century American icons in this short, easy-to-read work of narrative nonfiction.…
The Great Match Race
On May 27, 1823, 60,000 people crammed into the Union Course on Long Island, New York, eager to see a…
Symphony
Editors' choice
This stunning novel illuminates the passionate and stormy union of great Romantic composer, Hector Berlioz, and Anglo-Irish actress, Harriet Smithson,…
A Reason To Live
During the Civil War, Laurel Covey nurses young Confederate soldiers. In a journal, she records their dying words and wishes,…
The Book Of True Desires
Krahn’s second in her Book series (following The Book of the Seven Delights) puts a feminist spin on the adventure…
Dangerous Pursuits
Editors' choice
The second book in the Rose McQuinn mystery series is a thoroughly enjoyable introduction to the world of Edinburgh’s first…
Whispers Of The Night
For all fans of the old Gothic novel, this is an author to consider: Lydia Joyce creates a brooding atmosphere…
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