19th Century

Beneath the Golden Veil

By Melanie Dobson - Published 2016

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InspirationalRomance

In this inspirational Christian novel set during the 1850s, the Harvard-educated son of a Virginia tobacco plantation owner acts on his abolitionist convictions ...Read Review

Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison

By Jerry White - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

This thoroughly engaging book manages to present the factual and dark history of the notorious London debtors’ prison, Marshalsea, in an accessible and ...Read Review

The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

By Lyndsay Faye - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

Sherlock Holmes, that fascinating detective born from Conan Doyle’s pen in the late Victorian era, still captivates readers and viewers today. Currently, ...Read Review

The Perks of Loving a Scoundrel

By Jennifer McQuiston - Published 2016

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Romance

Victorian London is no place for a bookish spinster like Miss Mary Channing, who lands herself in a conundrum when she becomes entangled ...Read Review

The Whole Town’s Talking

By Fannie Flagg - Published 2016

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In 1880 Lordor Nordstrom is 28 when he hears of cheap American farmland for sale. He has little chance of owning a farm in Sweden, ...Read Review

My Enemy, My Heart

By Laurie Alice Eakes - Published 2016

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InspirationalNauticalRomance

The war of 1812 has begun, unbeknownst to the American crew of the Maid of Alexandria. Part of the Baltimore clipper’s crew, Deirdre ...Read Review

The Mauricewood Devils

By Dorothy Alexander - Published 2016

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In 1889, a coal pit fire broke out in the Mauricewood Colliery in Scotland. As the fire spread, over 60 of the 70 men in the ...Read Review

Victoria

By Daisy Goodwin - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction

The early reign of Great Britain’s Queen Victoria is recounted in this multi-view narrative replete with rich characterization and political intrigue. Among ...Read Review

Art Love Forgery

By Carolyn Morgan - Published 2016

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Morgan has based her novel on a true event that took place in 1880s St. John’s, Newfoundland. A Polish immigrant, Alexander Pindikowsky, ...Read Review

To the Bright Edge of the World

By Eowyn Ivey - Published 2016

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This novel is an epistolary novel with four principal characters: one pair, husband and wife, live in 1885, and the other pair are contemporary. ...Read Review