18th Century

Madeleine: Last French Casquette Bride in New Orleans

By Wanda Maureen Miller - Published 2021

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Madeleine Boucher is a young woman of humble birth who journeys to Louisiana in the New World. As she leaves behind France and ...Read Review

The Tsarina’s Daughter

By Ellen Alpsten - Published 2021

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Saga

The Tsarina’s Daughter is Kenyan-born, London-based Ellen Alpsten’s second historical novel and is part of a trilogy about the Russian aristocracy ...Read Review

Wilde Child: Wildes of Lindow Castle

By Eloisa James - Published 2021

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Romance

1784. Lady Joan Wilde, daughter of the Duke of Lindow, is considered scandalous, not only because she is illegitimate, but because she defies social ...Read Review

The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist

By Jo Willet - Published 2021

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Nonfiction

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s claim to fame is that she was the first mother in England to have a child ‘engrafted’ against ...Read Review

Answering Liberty’s Call: Anna Stone’s Daring Ride to Valley Forge

By Tracy Lawson - Published 2021

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Adventure

As the American Revolution is on the verge of potential collapse and internal political intrigue abounds, Anna Stone receives news that her preacher/...Read Review

Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas

By Sam Maggs - Published 2021

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Children/Young AdultNautical

This graphic novel recounts the adventures of real-life 18th-century pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, with cameo appearances by Jack Rackham. Anne’s ...Read Review

The Prophet (A Tabitha Hart Mystery 2)

By Martine Bailey - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

The story of Tabitha and Nathaniel de Vallory, which began in The Almanack, continues in this mystery set in the Cheshire countryside. It ...Read Review

The Kingdoms

By Natasha Pulley - Published 2021

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AdventureAlternate HistoryNautical

In this alternate-history adventure, Joe Tournier comes to in a Londres métro station in 1898, so named because Napoleon won the Battle of ...Read Review

Chains Across the River

By Bevis Longstreth - Published 2021

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Military

This is the story of Thomas Machin, an engineer of somewhat flawed character who enlisted in the British Army and was posted to ...Read Review

Molly Lake in the Quebec Affair

By Samuel Endicott - Published 2021

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Literary

In 1759, 15-year-old Molly Lake and her family, living on a farm near Schenectady, New York, are attacked by Indians led by a Canadian. ...Read Review