19th Century
Her Mother’s Daughter
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Agnes Berry-Clay has always known she was adopted. In 1853, her father’s brewery is prospering, and her home at Windmarsh Court has every ...Read Review
The Best of Sisters
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Having accidentally killed a man, Bart Bragg, a Thames waterman, is forced to flee England, abandoning his 12-year-old sister, Eliza, to the cruel ...Read Review
Holding the Fort
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When Louisa Bell arrives at Fort Reno, Oklahoma in 1885, she’s got to tread carefully. An unemployed dance hall singer with a ne’...Read Review
Murder Will Speak
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Believing that a woman can influence wrongdoers to change their ways, Lilly Long leaves a touring theatre company to become a Pinkerton operative. ...Read Review
I Survived: The Children’s Blizzard, 1888
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Chicago-born 11-year-old John Hale’s family has moved to the Dakota prairie, and he contends with the challenges of farming in a brutal ...Read Review
The Wreckage of Eden
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Robert Winter presides over the wreckage of the Eden given to white European settlers as Manifest Destiny in the first part of the 19...Read Review
The River Maid
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The River Maid series is a new departure for the historical romance writer, Dilly Court. In this first book in the series, set ...Read Review
The Long Shadow
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This is book one of the Winds of Freedom series. It is March 1850 in northeastern Vermont, and teenaged Alice Sanborn works hard helping ...Read Review
A Reckoning
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In Spalding’s excellent fifth novel (after The Purchase, 2013), John, a white man, and Bry, a black man, struggle with the onus of ...Read Review
The Cedar
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It’s the early 19th century, and Elisabeth has lost everything in Charleston, South Carolina. With her companions—the carriage driver, her servant, ...Read Review