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18th Century

Thorn In My Heart

By Liz Curtis Higgs - Published 2003

Genres:

In the Scottish Lowlands of 1788, Rowena McKie goads her favorite son Jamie, the younger of twins, into claiming his father’s blessing. With ...Read Review

Fanny

By Erica Jong - Published 1997 Published 2003

Genres:

Adventure Romance

Dear Reader, if the Use of 18th Century Capitalization and Language is Tiresome to You, then turn away from Fanny, for Ms. Jong – ...Read Review

Too Soon For Flowers

By Margaret Miles - Published 1999

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

You’re probably like me and when a new author starts a new series with a new character, you miss the first two ...Read Review

The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost

By J.E. Fender - Published 2002

Genres:

Adventure Nautical

Fans of Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester will find much to admire in this historical novel, set in 1776 on the coast ...Read Review

Between Two Fires

By Nicholas Nicastro - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Nautical Saga

This second volume of a trilogy on the life of the American naval hero, John Paul Jones, starts with his commission to the ...Read Review

Touch and Go

By C. Northcote Parkinson - Published 2003

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Adventure Nautical

Parkinson’s Richard Delancey has been promoted to command H.M.S. Merlin in his fourth adventure of the series. Delancey serves in 1799 ...Read Review

Leonora: Tulips in Winter

By Regina Pounds - Published 2002

Genres:

Romance

In 1788, a feisty English damsel named Leonora encounters two Russian noblemen in France, and then in the Duchy of Nassau. One of the ...Read Review

Seraglio

By Janet Wallach - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Epic

In 1788, Algerian pirates kidnapped Aimée du Buc de Rivery, a thirteen-year-old girl on her way home to Martinique from school in France. ...Read Review

Into the Valley

By Rosanne Bittner - Published 2003

Genres:

Romance Saga

This second novel in Rosanne Bittner’s Westward America series (after Into the Wilderness) carries the reader back to the turbulent days of ...Read Review