18th Century

Abundance

By Sena Jeter Naslund - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

  The author of the bestselling Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund takes on a true historical figure this time, in Abundance, an ...Read Review

Any Approaching Enemy

By Jay Worrall -

Genres:

AdventureNautical

  After an American spy tells him of a French fleet amassing in the Mediterranean, Charles Edgemont, captain of His Majesty’s frigate ...Read Review

Young Bloods

By Simon Scarrow - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical FictionMilitary

  This is the first in a quartet of novels about Wellington and Napoleon, covering the years 1769-1795. Arthur Wesley is a sickly ...Read Review

The Divided Ground : Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

By Alan Taylor - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

  Pulitzer Prize winning-author Taylor begins his scholarly yet accessible history with the French and Indian War and concludes with the early 19th ...Read Review

Passarola Rising

By Azhar Abidi - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

Father Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a pioneer in 18th-century aviation. His flying ship, the Passarola, never succeeded in transporting humans, ...Read Review

The Reaper

By Michael Aye - Published 2005

Genres:

AdventureNautical

The year is 1775. As the book opens, Captain Gilbert Anthony’s dying father, the famous “Fighting James Anthony,” retired Vice Admiral of the ...Read Review

No Quarter

By Broos Campbell - Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureNautical

It is 1799, and the young American navy is faced with challenges on the high seas – both from Great Britain, who tries to impress ...Read Review

By A Lady: Being The Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen’s England

By Amanda Elyot - Published 2006

Genres:

RomanceTime-slip

This time travel novel tells the tale of C.J. Welles, a New York City actress who is transported back to 1801 England when ...Read Review

Surrender

By Pamela Clare - Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureRomance

Set in Albany, New York, in 1755, Clare begins her trilogy with this wonderful story. Blackmailed into serving the wily Lord William Wentworth and ...Read Review

The First American Army: the Remarkable Story of George Washington and the Men behind America’s Fight for Freedom

By Bruce Chadwick - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Through their letters, memoirs and verses, the author presents the lesser-known actors in the American Revolution—teenaged volunteers, raw young officers, doctors, chaplains, ...Read Review