17th Century
Costanza
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She has gazed out at viewers for nearly four centuries: eyes wide, lips parted, hair unkempt, expression determined and sensual. The marble portrait ...Read Review
The Great Phoenix of London
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Galvin’s extraordinary novel about the 1666 Great Fire of London, a boy and a phoenix, has all the hallmarks to become a children’...Read Review
An Age of Winters
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In 1625 the Franconian village of Eisbach, already ravaged by plague and famine, is in the grip of the Little Ice Age during the ...Read Review
The Keys of Hell and Death
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Cordell’s sequel to God’s Vindictive Wrath, part of the Divided Kingdom series, is set during the English Civil War and explores ...Read Review
Find Me in the Stars: A Cevenoles Sagas Novel (The Huguenot Trilogy)
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In this second book of the Cevénoles Sagas, Amelia Auvrey and Jehan BonDurant part ways, although they are very much in love. ...Read Review
Teach the Children to Pray
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Josefine Dorn lives with her parents in Ellwangen, a 17th-century town, part of what will one day be Germany. When the accusations of ...Read Review
To the Bone
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Ellis, a teenage indentured servant living in the Virginia settlement called Jamestown by its English colonizers, narrates this story set in the “Starving ...Read Review
A Poisoner’s Tale
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Cathryn Kemp states that her novel ‘is dedicated to every woman who knows how it feels when his key turns in the lock’. ...Read Review
The Woman in the Painting
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In 1645 Islip, England, Catherine has been raising her daughter alone for the last two years, ever since the death of her husband, John. ...Read Review
The Prisoner of Measham Hall
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This, the third book in the Measham Hall series, is set in 1690, as King James II attempts to recover his realm from the ...Read Review
