18th Century
The Life of George Bass, Surgeon and Sailor of the Enlightenment
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Born in 1771 in Boston, England, George Bass served an apprenticeship as a surgeon and then joined the Royal Navy. Bass’s real passion ...Read Review
Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead
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Salt, a Yankee hemp farmer, lives in New York with his wife, a teenage son and his Tory father-in-law. The American Revolution comes ...Read Review
Bury The Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
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In 1787 a small group of men gathered in a London printing shop to discuss how they might be instrumental in abolishing slavery. Using ...Read Review
The Widow’s War
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As a whaler’s wife living on Cape Cod in 1761, Lyddie Berry always knew the dangers. One windy January afternoon, when her cousins ...Read Review
Death du Jour
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What a great idea, a mystery series during the French Revolution when restaurants began, chefs to the aristocrats finding themselves suddenly without employers. ...Read Review
Passarola Rising
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Father Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a pioneer in 18th-century aviation. His flying ship, the Passarola, never succeeded in transporting humans, ...Read Review
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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The sixth book in this popular series of novels begins in March 1773, when a family of settlers in backcountry North Carolina is found ...Read Review
Ghost Legion
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This is a very gritty depiction of the events leading up to the battle of King’s Mountain in 1780. The author, a Spur ...Read Review
Copper Sun
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In 1738, fifteen-year-old Amari’s peaceful village life in Africa came to an end. Her village was burned and her family brutally murdered as ...Read Review
The Alchemist’s Daughter
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In lyrical prose, this novel details the life of Emilie Selden, a female scientist in 18th century England, squirreled away in her father’...Read Review
