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18th Century

The Knight of Maison-Rouge

By Alexandre Dumas - Published 2003

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Alexandre Dumas knew how to construct a fast-paced tale of adventure and romance, mixing history and fiction, and creating an atmosphere of intrigue ...Read Review

Vindication

By Frances Sherwood - Published (c1993)Published 2004

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Biographical Fiction

Originally published in 1993, the re-issue of Vindication in paperback is a welcome addition to any bedside table reading collection. This fictionalized version of ...Read Review

Havoc’s Sword

By Dewey Lambdin - Published 2003

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Adventure Nautical

The indefatigable Alan Lewrie sails yet again through troubled waters in Dewey Lambdin’s eleventh sea adventure. Lewrie, now a Captain in the ...Read Review

Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres (1747 – 1817)

By Elizabeth Pendergrast Carlisle - Published 2004

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Nonfiction

A contemporary of nation-makers, Elizabeth Porter Phelps lived in her family’s house for all but the first five of her 70 years, keeping ...Read Review

Interrupted Aria

By Beverle Graves Myers - Published 2004

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Mystery/Crime

Nineteen-year-old Tito Amato returns to Venice after eight long years of training at Conservatorio San Remo. It is 1731, and Tito is the newly ...Read Review

Cassandra, Lost

By Joanna Catherine Scott - Published 2004

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Literary

When Baltimore heiress Cassandra Owings’ father denies her permission to marry Lieutenant Benedict van Pradelles, the handsome, older Frenchman she adores, the pair ...Read Review

Shadowbrook

By Beverly Swerling - Published 2004

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Epic Romance

This is an ambitious epic of the tumultuous 1750s, when Englishmen battled the French for ultimate control of North America. Quentin Hale, younger ...Read Review

The Pipestone Quest

By Don Coldsmith - Published 2003

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Adventure

This is the latest volume of the Spanish Bit Saga, by a multi-published and much honored Western author. The story tells of a ...Read Review

Slightly Tempted

By Mary Balogh - Published 2003

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Romance

Lady Morgan Bedwyn is visiting Brussels in June 1815, just prior to Waterloo. There she is seen by Gervase Ashford, a man who hates ...Read Review

Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction

By Robert J Begiebing - Published 2003

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Literary

When Englishman Daniel Sanborn takes his first portraiture commission in Portsmouth, Virginia, he doesn’t expect his subject, a mere child, to be ...Read Review