18th Century
First and Before All Things
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This is the story of the Norwich Bethel, a sanctuary for “lunaticks” founded in 1713 by the enlightened and compassionate Mary Chapman, widow of ...Read Review
Heathcliff: The Lost Years
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In Emily Brontë’s classic novel, speculation swirls around what its hero did in his three years away from Wuthering Heights, and how ...Read Review
This Dark and Bloody Ground: Tales of Frontier America, Book 1, Maggie’s Story
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At the outset of the Revolutionary War, 13-year-old Maggie Diele and her family leave their home in Culpepper, Virginia, and follow Daniel Boone ...Read Review
Verity (The Sugar Baron’s Daughters)
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It’s 1775, and talk of revolution is quietly spreading through the streets of New York. When Verity Banning arrives to gather supplies for ...Read Review
The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner’s Journey to the New World
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Thomas Doughty was born into a poor farming family in the Scottish Lowlands during the run of bad harvests of the Little Ice ...Read Review
The Corpse Played Dead
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Lizzie Hardwicke is a brilliant, educated, and kind sex worker. Seated in a theater with her colleagues, she learns that she is also ...Read Review
The West Indian
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Lester’s haunting novel is, in part, the birth story of two infamous Brontë characters: the boy who becomes Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights ...Read Review
The Wisdom of Bones
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London, 1879. Percival Unusual George is a showman. He leads a troupe of nine performing Remarkables. He is driven by a dream of fame ...Read Review
Ghost Fire
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In 1754, while Theo and Connie Courtney are living in India, a French army attacks their fort, and they experience the tragic death of ...Read Review
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen: A Novel
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Popular 18th-century medical theory espouses the idea that a woman’s mind – what she sees and what her thoughts dwell upon – can have ...Read Review
