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18th Century

The Dressmaker of Draper’s Lane

By Liz Trenow - Published 2019

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Spitalfields, 1768: costumière Miss Charlotte buys a sample of chinoiserie silk at an auction job lot, and disturbs a long-buried memory. Taking a ...Read Review

The First Mrs. Rothschild

By Sara Aharoni - By Yardenne Greenspan (trans.) - Published 2019

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Literary

With her third novel, a prizewinner in Israel, Sara Aharoni illuminates the matriarch of an international banking dynasty, perhaps the most famous in ...Read Review

The Garden of Perfect Brightness (The Forbidden City)

By Melissa Addey - Published 2019

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China, 1720s. Niuhuru never expected to be chosen. Thus, when her name is called to become a minor prince’s concubine, Niuhuru has ...Read Review

The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

By Susan Holloway Scott - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

Scott (I, Eliza Hamilton), has taken on a difficult task here in imaginatively illuminating the life of a woman hidden in history: Mary ...Read Review

The King’s Mercy

By Lori Benton - Published 2019

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Inspirational Romance

Alex MacKinnon, a Scottish fighter in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1740s Britain, finds himself paroled and exiled to colonial North Carolina, and then ...Read Review

True Freedom

By Michael Dean - Published 2019

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The novel focuses on the build up towards the American War of Independence when the decision was taken by most colonists to break ...Read Review

The Impostress: The Dishonest Adventures of Sarah Wilson

By R.J. Clarke - Published 2019

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Nonfiction

“The greatest impostress of the present age” was the mysterious Sarah Wilson who, from her late teens, wandered alone across 18th-century England duping ...Read Review

Say No to the Duke: The Wildes of Lindow Castle

By Eloisa James - Published 2019

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Romance

Lady Boadicea Wilde (Betsy to her friends) sets out to receive more proposals than any other debutante, not too difficult really since she ...Read Review

The Orphan’s Song

By Lauren Kate - Published 2019

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Venice in 1734 is a skilled singer’s wonderland. Operas, theaters, parties large and small; all cry out for musicians, and the best are ...Read Review

The Amazing Mr. Franklin: Or the Boy Who Read Everything

By Ruth Ashby - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

Frustrated with life as his brother’s apprentice, seventeen-year-old Ben Franklin makes plans to flee Boston. First, he has to obtain the funds, ...Read Review