18th Century
Napoleon in Egypt
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Paul Strathern is a rare example of an intellectual who is eminently qualified in diverse fields. An award-winning novelist, Strathern has also earned ...Read Review
The Revolution of Sabine
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Sabine Durand, an aristocratic sixteen-year-old living in 18th-century Paris, is growing weary of her mother’s fixation on society and entertaining. Obsessed with ...Read Review
Chains
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Teenaged Isabel and her five-year-old sister Ruth had understood they would be freed upon the death of their owner. But the recent Revolutionary ...Read Review
The Only Son
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The passing mention of an older brother in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions sent author Stéphane Audeguy in search of the rest of ...Read Review
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol II, The Kingdom of the Waves
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African-American youth Octavian escapes with his trusted tutor Doctor Trefusis from the eccentric Bostonian gentlemen who raised him as a comparative experiment between ...Read Review
Wind Dancer
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Set in the northwestern frontier settlements of the American Revolution (1778), Wind Dancer recounts the ill-fated journey of siblings Isabelle and Julian Renoir to ...Read Review
Den of Thieves
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London, Paris, 1791. In this, the third of Cat Royal’s adventures, Cat finds herself homeless and penniless when the Drury Lane theatre closes. ...Read Review
Lucasta
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Brown-haired, brown-eyed Lucasta is not surprised when Viscount Kennington falls instantly in love with her blonde and blue-eyed sister, Camilla, a ‘diamond of ...Read Review
The Book of Negroes
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Africa, 1755. Aminata, age 11, is captured by slave traders and sold into slavery in South Carolina, where she suffers rape and other terrible abuses. ...Read Review
An Affair Before Christmas
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In 1778 Paris, the Duke of Fletcher falls in love with Miss Perdita ‘Poppy’ Selby. Swept away by the charm of Parisian Christmas-time, he ...Read Review
