18th Century

The Fort

By Bernard Cornwell - Published 2010

Genres:

Military

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

By Susanna Kearsley - Published 2008Published 2010

Genres:

RomanceTime-slip

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

By Christina Courtenay - Published 2010

Genres:

NauticalRomance

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

Revolution

By Jennifer Donnelly - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The antics of Andi Alpers and her circle of frenemies would make the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette blush. Sex, drugs, ...Read Review

The Sons of Liberty

By Alexander Lagos - By Joseph Lagos - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

To quote one of the authors, the concept of this graphic novel for ages 10 and up is “two runaway slaves become masked vigilantes ...Read Review

Valley Forge

By Newt Gingrich - By William Forstchen - Published 2010

Genres:

Military

In the winter of 1777, the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, established winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. After losing ...Read Review

Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America’s Founding Fathers

By Gary Kowalski - Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

The Founding Fathers of the United States (or The Founders, to use a more contemporary term) and their religious values continue to play ...Read Review

A Marked Man: An Abigail Adams Mystery

By Barbara Hamilton - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Second in a new series, A Marked Man begins at breakfast on a cold Sabbath morning in 1774 as Abigail Adams and her husband ...Read Review

The Women Who Loved Jefferson

By Virginia Scharff - Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

A fresh look at our nation’s third President through the women in his life. Scharff, incorporating recent research, provides a series of ...Read Review

The Tide of War

By Seth Hunter - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureNautical

Sailors are a superstitious lot. Firm believers in an unlucky ship, the officers assigned to them face innumerable problems in dealing with an ...Read Review