19th Century
Searching for You (Orphan Train)
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After she witnesses two murders, Sophie Neumann, the focus of Jody Hedlund’s big-hearted and generous Searching for You, flees the rough streets ...Read Review
The Inventors and the Lost Island
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Second in a series after The Inventors at No. 8 (oddly, there’s only one inventor, and she lives at number 5), this magical Victorian ...Read Review
The Refuge
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1849. To avoid a cholera epidemic, Darcie and her husband take refuge in the Shaker village of Harmony Hill in rural Kentucky. But before ...Read Review
Rebecca’s Children: A Saga of Love & Betrayal in 19th Century Wales
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Between 1839 and 1843, the Rebecca Riots in South Wales brought the wrath of the English army down on the farmers and laborers protesting rising ...Read Review
Innocents to the Slaughter (Hudson & Lawes Trilogy)
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1839: following a tipoff, undercover journalist Ambrose Hudson, his aristocratic friend Edgar Lawes, and a teenage boy rescued from a workhouse head north from ...Read Review
The Scoundrel in Her Bed: A Sin for All Seasons Novel
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After she left her ducal groom at the altar in the second Sins for all Seasons book, Lady Lavinia Kent plunged into Victorian ...Read Review
What Girls Are Good For: A Novel of Nellie Bly
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Frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to a young woman of her modest standing, Elizabeth Cochrane is outraged when the Pittsburg Dispatch ...Read Review
The Lights of Cimarrón
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Tommy Stallings, sheriff of Cimarron in New Mexico Territory, is ordered to relocate to the new county seat in Springer, several miles away. ...Read Review
Fugitive Sheriff
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In July 1883, during the celebration of Pioneer Day in Coalville in Summit County, Utah Territory, the Sheriff is killed in a shoot-out. Arriving ...Read Review
Destiny’s Gold (Captain Jane Thorn)
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It’s 1820—trade restrictions in the wake of the War of 1812 have ceased, and Napoleon is safely ensconced on the island of St. ...Read Review