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18th Century

The Unassuming Curator

By Sian Ann Bessey - Published 2023

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1790. This Georgian romance pairs Henry Buckland, a naturalist at the British Museum, with Emily Norton, sister of Lord Dunsbourne, who would rather commune ...Read Review

Nothing Left to Fear from Hell: Darkland Tales

By Alan Warner - Published 2023

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Biographical Fiction Literary

Warner is known for his literary and comic novels, all in modern settings. His contribution to Polygon’s Darkland Tales series is a ...Read Review

April’s Breeze

By Gary Entwistle - Published 2022

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Biographical Fiction

In April 1775, a young doctor, Samuel Prescott from Concord, Massachusetts, finds himself unexpectedly drawn into an alarm being spread and becomes a key ...Read Review

A Girl Called Samson

By Amy Harmon - Published 2023

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In 1770, 10-year-old Deborah Samson is bound out to a Puritan family in Middleborough, Massachusetts. The kindly Reverend Conant, charged with delivering her to ...Read Review

Molly & the Captain

By Anthony Quinn - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

This book takes its name from a picture of his two daughters made by the 18th-century painter William Merrymount. The other daughter in ...Read Review

The Edinburgh Skating Club

By Michelle Sloan - Published 2022

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The story recounts how poet Alison Cockburn accepts a challenge from philosopher David Hume and his sister Katherine to bring her intellect to ...Read Review

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

By Margaret Willson - Published 2023

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Nautical Nonfiction

Thurídur Einarsdóttir (1777-1863) was born in a hamlet on the harsh coast of Iceland, the child of a poor seasonal fishing ...Read Review

A Taste of Betrayal: A Faith Clarke Mystery

By Julie Bates - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

In 1775 Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia, tempers flare between loyalists to King George III and patriots craving independence. Tavern keeper Faith Clarke, ...Read Review

Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade’s Journey

By John Sayles - Published 2023

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Literary

Scotland, 1746, and Jamie MacGillivray, shivering in the rain, brings a message from France to Lord Lovat, the Auld Fox, his Hogarth portrait vividly ...Read Review

In the Upper Country

By Kai Thomas - Published 2023

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In 1859, in an all-Black town in Canada West (modern Ontario), a hub for the Underground Railroad, a female journalist agrees to interview an ...Read Review