17th Century
Just Beyond Tomorrow
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The mother of the new Duke of Glenkirk’s mother had given him two pieces of advice. The first, “to marry soon,” is ...Read Review
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
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There’s an exciting sense of discovery as author Richard Zacks peels back the layers of history and shows us 1696 Manhattan. He describes ...Read Review
Susannah Morrow
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Salem Village, Massachusetts, during the horrific episode of the witch trials in 1692 is the setting for Chance’s new novel. Teenaged Charity Fowler ...Read Review
Speaks The Nightbird
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McCammon’s latest is an overlong, plodding mix of horror and mystery set in Carolina in 1699. The story concerns the hamlet of Fount ...Read Review
Embrace The Dawn
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With her husband’s escalating abuse, Killian Campbell and her son flee. Alexander pursues and strangles her, but a stranger intervenes. When the ...Read Review
The Water’s Edge
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This is a multi-generational story of three families who leave England for the New World and settle in Salem, Massachusetts. As the years ...Read Review
The Dance Of Geometry
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This tri-part book centers on Jan Vermeer, the 17th century Dutch painter of such engaging and suggestive interior scenes. The first episode shows ...Read Review
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
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This remarkable debut novel is the story of Cot Daley, stolen off the streets of Galway and shipped as an indentured servant to ...Read Review
The Pillowbook of Lady Wisteria
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The Pillowbook of Lady Wisteria is the seventh in Rowland’s popular series of Japanese murder mysteries featuring samurai Sano Ichiro and his ...Read Review
La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
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Suzanne Nelson is an art historian at a small university in Vermont. She is an emotionally detached woman who is hard to like; ...Read Review