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18th Century

Adam Runaway

By Peter Prince - Published 2005

Genres:

In 1721, the protagonist of the novel, Adam Hanaway, leaves his mother and sister in England to seek success in Lisbon after his father’...Read Review

Shadow Patriots

By Lucia St. Clair Robson - Published 2005

Genres:

Thriller

The title Shadow Patriots refers to those individuals who assisted the Americans during the War for Independence by gathering intelligence—spies, in other ...Read Review

A Factory of Cunning

By Philippa Stockley - Published 2005

Genres:

Literary

By age thirty, French noblewoman Mrs. Fox has been scandalized and chased to Holland with her loyal maid, Victoire. There Mrs. Fox establishes ...Read Review

Sails on the Horizon

By Jay Worrall - Published 2005

Genres:

Adventure Military Nautical

Worrall’s novel of a young Royal Navy officer, the brave and resourceful Charles Edgemont, covers waters already familiar to devotees of adventures ...Read Review

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

By Carolly Erickson - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Marie Antoinette begins writing her diary as a young girl in the 1760s and continues sporadically until just before her death in 1793. Through ...Read Review

Kingston by Starlight

By Christopher John Farley - Published 2005

Genres:

Adventure Biographical Fiction

The trial of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Calico Jack Rackam and their shipmates from the pirate ship William drew international attention when it ...Read Review

Whence Came a Prince

By Liz Curtis Higgs - Published 2005

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Inspirational Romance

It is 1790 in Galloway, Scotland. Leana McBride lives at her aunt’s cottage, nursing a broken heart, after the Kirk declared her marriage ...Read Review

Native Son

By J.M. Hochstetler - Published 2005

Genres:

Adventure Inspirational

In 1775, the British have placed a price on ex-officer Jonathan Carleton’s head for deserting to the Continental forces. His love, Elizabeth Howard, ...Read Review

By Honor Bound

By Helen A. Rosburg - Published 2003

Genres:

Romance

This historical romance spans thirty-three years, climaxing in 1793 during the Terror. Instead of the expected aristocratic-love-in-the-shadow-of-the-guillotine story, the author presents a romance between ...Read Review

Loving Soren

By Caroline Coleman O’Neill - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Inspirational Romance

This elegantly written first novel about Regina Olsen, the young woman jilted but never forgotten by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, should quickly ...Read Review