18th Century
Never a Gentleman
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Readers first met Grace Fairchild, worthy friend and daughter of a general in the Napoleonic Wars, who stalwartly accompanied her father on campaign ...Read Review
The House of Dead Maids
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When Tabby comes to Seldom House as the new maid, she quickly realizes that things are not as they should be. Though the ...Read Review
Fall of a Sparrow
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Set during the Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779), this is an unusual crime novel. When a young Scottish soldier, childlike Jamie Macfarlane, is found ...Read Review
London’s Sinful Secret: The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London’s Georgian Age
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Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank’s newest book is a lengthy but fascinating examination of a not-so-secret aspect of Georgian London: the sex industry. ...Read Review
Finding Emilie
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Laurel Corona, author of The Four Seasons, an outstanding novel of Vivaldi’s Venice, turns to 18th-century France in her enthralling new novel, ...Read Review
Liberty’s Exiles
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The American Loyalists were not the snobbish grandees of legend, but a diverse group with different motives for loyalty to the British Empire: ...Read Review
Napoleon’s Pyramids
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Paris, 1798. When American adventurer, sharpshooter and gambler Ethan Gage wins a supposedly cursed ancient Egyptian medallion, and then refuses to sell it to ...Read Review
With Fire and Sword
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General Sir William Howe commanded a British assault force against a ragtag collection of ill-trained rebels at the Battle of Bunker Hill on ...Read Review
The Pursuit of Pleasure
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Lizzie Paxton wants nothing more than to be a widow, in charge of her own destiny and free to make her own choices. ...Read Review
Mine is the Night
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After a failed Jacobite rising, Marjory and Elizabeth Kerr, their husbands dead in battle, are thrown out of their home and sent wandering. ...Read Review
