18th Century

The Blue

By Nancy Bilyeau (author) - Published 2018

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Genevieve Planché, granddaughter of French Huguenots, desperately wants to escape her stifling existence in Spitalfields to be a “history painter” in the fashion ...Read Review

Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World

By Peter Moore (author) - Published 2018

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NauticalNonfiction

Ranked among ships of historic note—Drake’s Golden Hind, Bligh’s Bounty, Franklin’s Erebus, Titanic—is the Endeavour, in which Lieutenant ...Read Review

The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829

By Antonia Fraser - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

In her latest historical non-fiction work, Antonia Fraser brilliantly brings attention to the struggles for emancipation and full citizenship by English and Irish ...Read Review

Dark Entry

By John B. Kachuba - Published 2018

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Dark Entry is told in both the present and the 18th century and based loosely on New England Native American folklore and the ...Read Review

Seduced by a Scot (The Highland Grooms Book 6)

By Julia London - Published 2018

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Romance

In this sixth installment of the Highland Grooms series, the taciturn and usually tactful Nichol Bain meets his match in Maura Darby, an ...Read Review

The Wolf and the Watchman

By Niklas Natt och Dag - Published 2019

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Mystery/CrimeThriller

The year is 1793. In Stockholm, Sweden, a body is discovered in Larder Lake. Cecil Winge, a former prosecuting attorney suffering from consumption and ...Read Review

America’s Forgotten Founding Father: A Novel Based on the Life of Filippo Mazzei

By Rosanne Welch - Published 2018

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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

“I have never wished anyone to ask, ‘Why is Mazzei here?’ but rather, ‘Why is Mazzei not here?’” The quote attributed to Filippo ...Read Review

The Song Peddler of the Pont Neuf

By Laura Lebow - Published 2018

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Mystery/Crime

Paul Gastebois, a “confidential inquirer” in Paris of 1788, usually avoids taking on missing person cases. “People in Paris are lost all the time, ...Read Review

A Lawless Place (Contraband Shore)

By David Donachie - Published 2018

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AdventureNautical

The sequel to Donachie’s The Contraband Shore (2017), this novel is set in and around Deal (where the author lives) in 1787. Naval captain ...Read Review

The Shaker Murders (A Will Rees Mystery)

By Eleanor Kuhns - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

Will Rees and his family are hiding in Zion, a Shaker community in Maine, and hoping to find safety, but what Will discovers ...Read Review