18th Century
Pimpernelles: The Traitor’s Smile (Book 2)
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1793. The French king has been guillotined and the Reign of Terror is just beginning. Eugénie de Boncoeur and the wounded Julien de ...Read Review
The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Benjamin Franklin
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Fourteen-year-old Patience Martin is unhappily indentured to the sick and demanding widow Abedela Worth. But when Mrs. Worth dies unexpectedly, instead of freeing ...Read Review
Storyteller
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip
Elizabeth’s father has left for Australia, leaving her with an aunt she barely knows. But her aunt’s home feels oddly welcoming, ...Read Review
Neither Rebel Nor Tory: Hanyost Schuyler & The Siege of Fort Stanwix
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Readers glancing at a summary of Michael Cooney’s novel Neither Rebel Nor Tory—the story of Hanyost Schuyler, a young man in ...Read Review
Trenton
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1770s Trenton, New Jersey: Penny Scott has been raised by future Declaration-signer John Hart’s family since she was orphaned as a child ...Read Review
Debt of Dishonour
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This lively and engaging read opens when Georgiana Grey, otherwise known as the highwayman the Crimson Cavalier, is robbed at pistol‑point whilst ...Read Review
City of Dreams
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Boston book dealer and treasure hunter, Peter Fallon, makes a reappearance in this, the most recent of Martin’s suspense novels that incorporate ...Read Review
The Fort
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The Fort is the story of a battle in the American War of Independence. It took place in the summer of 1779 when a ...Read Review
The Winter Sea
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Historical subjects come to life for a modern novelist in Kearsley’s fascinating The Winter Sea. To explain how and why her 18th ...Read Review
Trade Winds
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Trade Winds is this author’s first novel. Set in 1732, the story begins in Scotland, moves to Gothenburg, Sweden, and then to the ...Read Review
