19th Century
In the Palace of Flowers
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In Iran in 1895, Jamila, an Abyssinian slave of one of Shah Nasser al-Din Qajar’s numerous wives, lives in the Golestan (flowery) Palace. ...Read Review
The Winds of Morning (Donovan Family Saga)
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The famine of the 1840s has decimated Ireland, and young Molly O’Brien has replaced her father, working a 16-hour day breaking rocks ...Read Review
The Dressmaker’s Secret
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Born to an unmarried mother, Lily Hayter has never lacked for love from her adopted parents and her brother Charlie. When she is ...Read Review
The Sign of Death: A Victorian Book Club Mystery
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Bath, 1891: Lady Amy and Lord William enjoy a close friendship that includes attending meetings of the local mystery book club. That group at ...Read Review
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
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You probably know Peter Cozzens as the author of The Earth is Weeping, his monumental study of the Indian Wars in the western ...Read Review
The Mirrored Palace
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In the last decade of the 19th century, American Lieutenant Reynolds is given the task of turning long-time British spy, Colonel Hodgson, to ...Read Review
Shadows of Lions
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This is Book 2 of the In Spite of Lions series set in 1840s Africa and England. It can be read as a standalone. ...Read Review
Concord
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In Concord, his first novel, Zancanella (English, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of New Mexico) imagines the early adult lives of New England’s most ...Read Review
Earl’s Well That Ends Well (The Way to a Lord’s Heart 5)
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In this sweet second-chance Regency romance, Arthur Shelton, Earl of Macklin, is a widower who has been a matchmaker for others. Just north ...Read Review
A Tapestry of Light
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Calcutta, 1885. The accidental death of twenty-year-old Ottilie’s half-Indian mother means she must support her Indian maternal grandmother and six-year-old brother, Thaddeus. Her ...Read Review
