1999
The Summer of ’39
Seymour has effectively used the first person narrative voice to write a compelling novel about a woman’s downward spiral into…
The Marplot Marriage
Mischievous, fun-loving Phoebe Bridgerton and her stuffy cousin-in-law, Charles Hargood, are thrown into matrimony because of the inconvenient but extremely…
Sor Juana’s Second Dream
This lovely novel can be read without any previous knowledge of the famous Mexican nun. The author evokes the feel…
Swords Across the Thames
Alfred the Great of Wessex marries his daughter Lae to Aethelred, ruler of the neighboring Mercians. Trained as a warrior,…
Gap Creek
“A story of a marriage from the Poet Laureate of Appalachia,” the publisher tells us, along with the – probably…
Must the Maiden Die: A Seneca Falls Historical Mystery
Glynis Tryon, the librarian of Seneca Falls, New York, participates in the festivities of her niece’s wedding while solving a…
Cordelia Underwood, or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League
After reading so many westerns over the course of the years, it comes as a distinct pleasure to read an…
Manassas / Shiloh / Antietam (Civil War Battle Series, Books 1, 2, and 3)
These three novels are the first of a projected eight-volume set on the American Civil War as seen through the…
Yellow Jack
Early in Yellow Jack, the principal character’s father falls victim to a biting-robbery-murder during an outdoor encounter with a Parisian…
The Words of Bernfrieda: A Chronicle of Hauteville
“The past is interesting only when it foreshadows greatness,” explains the monk Gaufredus Malaterra to this novel’s narrator, Bernfrieda, who…
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