18th Century
Midnight Fires
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
After a major disappointment in love, aspiring author Mary Wollstonecraft must support herself and takes a position as governess to a wealthy family ...Read Review
Jeanie’s Destiny
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Jeanie’s Destiny is set in 1870 on the coast of Galloway in Scotland. The book opens when the heroine is sixteen years old. ...Read Review
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Despite its gimmicky-sounding subtitle, The Bad Queen is a straightforward tale of Marie Antoinette from the time shortly before her marriage to the ...Read Review
Woods Runner
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Growing up in the frontier wilderness of western Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Samuel hears little about the growing conflict between the American colonies and ...Read Review
Savage Lands
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Louisiana in the early years of the 18th century; this is a novel about the French settlers who attempted to carve out their ...Read Review
The Admiral’s Game
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This is the fifth in the series of novels about John Pearce, a naval officer by default rather than proper entitlement. As in ...Read Review
Evangeline
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Based on the poem of the same name by Longfellow, Evangeline tells the story of the Great Upheaval, the forcible removal of the ...Read Review
The Story of Cirrus Flux
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Britain’s Age of Enlightenment is an intriguing period of history to explore. It’s rich in scientific discovery, philosophical debate, and a ...Read Review
The Fire Kimono
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Tokyo, March, 1700: a storm uproots a huge tree near a Shinto shrine, nearly injuring an elderly priest and uncovering a royal corpse. The ...Read Review
The Cemetery of Secrets
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In the cemetery of San Michele a corpse is exhumed. Rizzo has been paid to supervise this grisly task and remove from the ...Read Review
