Gilded Age
A Proper Pursuit
In 1893, after returning home to Illinois from finishing school, 20-year-old high-spirited Violet Hayes discovers that her mother was not…
The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler’s Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster
Marc Songini paints a gritty picture of 19th-century seafaring life in The Lost Fleet, a detail-packed chronicle of the last…
Women of Magdalene
Robert Mallory is a young doctor who saw three years of horrifying medical service in the Civil War. Estranged from…
Whispers Along the Rails
In this, Miller’s second novel set in the 1890’s “company town” of Pullman, Illinois, Olivia Mott is not only working…
The Anatomy of Deception
Editors' choice
Ephraim Carroll is a young physician in late 19th-century Philadelphia who counts himself lucky to be in the orbit of…
Booth’s Daughter
This book is about family relationships, posing the question about just how much responsibility and sacrifice can reasonably be expected…
The Luxe
Well, it had to happen. Edith Wharton meets chick lit. It’s 1899 in Manhattan, and glam girls vie for irresistible…
Bachelor’s Puzzle
Zach Hartley has been on the run ever since he fled an abusive stepfather at the age of twelve, but…
Turpentine
Edward Bayard Turrentine III comes to Nebraska for his health in the 1870s. (Was the air in Nebraska salubrious? His…
Shadows in the White City
Second in the Inspector Ransom series, set in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair, this novel is part mystery, part…
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