2008
Girl in a Blue Dress
All of Victorian London is mourning the death of famous author Alfred Gibson, but one woman has not been invited…
The Free Negress Elisabeth
This semi-biographical novel is set in Dutch Surinam during the early 17th century, a land as exotic, brutal and utterly…
Jesse Bowman: A Union Boy’s War Story
Young readers are the target audience of this American Civil War story. Jesse Bowman enlists in the Chicago Zouaves, a…
The Locket
This is a young adult story of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of March 25, 1911, as told through the…
The Wolf King
Bronze Age Britain. ‘We are the Wolf Clan. Long ago our people swore brotherhood with the wolves.’ But now Coll’s…
Sovay
1794. England. The government is in the grip of paranoia about the effects of the French Revolution on Britain’s political…
The Scribes from Alexandria
81 A.D. Alexandria. In this, the fifteenth Roman Mysteries adventure, the four children, Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus are shipwrecked…
Hannah Pritchard, Pirate of the Revolution
Hannah Pritchard, a young teenaged New York farm girl, returns to her home after a carefree day of berry gathering…
A Brief History of Montmaray
The island kingdom of Montmaray is fictitious. Its royal house never existed. But everything else about this delightful historical novel…
The Daughters of the Doge
In this novel, the sequel to In the Shadow of Lady Jane, young Richard Stocker is still mourning his friend…
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