18th Century
Scattered Seed
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Three young women of Bambara nobility are sent to spend the summer of 1706 along the banks of the Niger river. When their camp ...Read Review
The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In the prologue to this middle-grade mystery, twelve-year-old Lizzie is told an African proverb by her wise mother: give voice to the lions, ...Read Review
The Hidden Saint
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Rabbi Adam’s family has been attacked by the supernatural. In his most desperate hour, he comes across an unfamiliar book. He uses ...Read Review
When the Day Comes (Timeless)
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Inspirational RomanceTime-slip
Like many readers, I have a weakness for time-travel novels, and this one adds an extra layer of intrigue. In the world Meyer ...Read Review
The Homecoming
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This latest novel from the bestselling Dutch author is a long, lyrical meditation on mourning and identity. Elizabeth Batts Cook is the wife ...Read Review
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
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If you love the Regency era like I do, then this is the book for you! Within the pages of The Time Traveler’...Read Review
Pandora
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Set during the cold wet year of 1799, in the Dickensian milieu of a struggling London shop of antiquities, this story’s protagonists are ...Read Review
Lies that Blind: A Novel of Late 18th Century Penang
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1788 Calcutta, India: Jim, a nineteen-year-old Englishman, is a writer at the East India Company’s headquarters. Bored from mindless clerical activities, he aspires ...Read Review
Incomparable World (Black Britain: Writing Back, 1)
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First published by Quartet in 1996, this is a rollicking account of Black lives in London and Middlesex during a specific period in the ...Read Review
Beyond the Lavender Fields
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Marseille, France, 1792. During the French Revolution, Gilles Étienne, a former mariner and now a high-end soap manufacturer’s clerk, lives at home with ...Read Review
