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18th Century

Death Makes No Distinction: A Dan Foster Mystery

By Lucienne Boyce - Published 2019

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Lucienne Boyce’s late 18th-century Dan Foster mysteries move from strength to strength. In this third adventure, our hero – child street-thief turned pugilist ...Read Review

Quest for Gold

By Ryan Fleming - Published 2019

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Adventure Nautical

Pirate life sounded like paradise to eighteen-year-old Daniel Wincott, compared to the abuse he received from his drunken father. Opportunity for riches and ...Read Review

Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha)

By Tasha Suri - Published 2019

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Historical Fantasy

Loosely based on the Mughal Empire, Realm of Ash lures its reader into the story with richly imaged, lapidary prose. Against a background ...Read Review

Uncommon Woman

By Laura Frantz - Published 2020

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Romance

In the western Virginia borderlands, Tessa Swan, her mother and five brothers run Swan Station, a large ranch near the ferry crossing of ...Read Review

The Queen’s Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire

By Allison Pataki - Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

The world-shaking romance of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais is well known to readers of historical fiction, but Pataki takes a fresh ...Read Review

The Tea Chest

By Heidi Chiavaroli - Published 2020

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Inspirational Romance

Liberty or Loyalty. This is the question faced by two women—Hayley Ashworth and Emma Malcolm—in Chiavaroli’s engaging multi-period romance. Emma ...Read Review

An Unspeakable Crime: A Novel of America’s First Courtroom Scandal

By Theresa Lorella - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

In 1793, the prominent, and intermarried, Randolph family of Virginia is rocked by a scandal: Richard Randolph, owner of the aptly named plantation Bizarre, ...Read Review

The Ghost Tree

By Barbara Erskine - Published 2019

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Time-slip

When Ruth Dunbar inherits her father’s Edinburgh house, she discovers the journals of an eighteenth-century ancestor, Thomas, among her deceased mother’s ...Read Review

Blood Will Out (Contraband Shore)

By David Donachie - Published 2019

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1787. Deal, Kent coast. Wounded in a failed attempt to rescue his beloved Betsy from a forced marriage, Captain Edward Brazier then disappears. Not ...Read Review