18th Century

The Blue Rose

By Kate Forsyth - Published 2019

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Kate Forsyth is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. Her novels include Bitter Greens, a retelling of the fairy tale of Rapunzel set in ...Read Review

The Dark Side of Isaac Newton: Science’s Greatest Fraud?

By Nick Kollerstrom - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

This book is not about Newton’s alchemy or his religious beliefs but about his science.  Nick Kollestrom is a maths teacher, so, ...Read Review

Simply Dead (A Will Rees Mystery Book 7)

By Eleanor Kuhns - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

Will Rees is happy with the blended family he and wife Lydia are raising on the Maine frontier in the early 1790s when ...Read Review

Sarah’s War

By Eugenia Lovett West - Published 2019

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In 1777 an embryonic America is fighting a seemingly doomed battle for its existence. Seventeen-year-old fervent patriot Sarah Champion is sent from her Connecticut ...Read Review

The Mozart Girl

By Barbara Nickel - Published 2019

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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart enjoys beautiful gowns, birthday gifts, and sweets as much as any 12-year-old girl, but she has an extraordinary ...Read Review

Fled

By Meg Keneally - Published 2019

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Fled is based on an extraordinary true story. Desperate to escape a life of gruelling poverty in Cornwall, Jenny Trelawney turns to highway ...Read Review

A Song for the Stars (Proper Romance Historical)

By Ilima Todd - Published 2019

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Romance

1779 marks the arrival of English ships on Hawaiian shores. While at first they are welcomed, cultural misunderstandings lead to a bloody confrontation. Maile, ...Read Review

The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle and Chaytor Mysteries)

By A. J. Mackenzie - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

Romney Marsh, 1796: A hidden smuggler spies a small coffin unloaded from a rival’s boat. A few weeks later another boat is discovered ...Read Review

Esther: The Extraordinary True Story of the First Fleet Girl Who Became First Lady of the Colony

By Jessica North - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

London, 1786: Esther, aged 16, Jewish, pregnant and in gaol for stealing 24 yards of black silk lace, awaits transportation on an eight-month journey to the ...Read Review

Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love

By Mary Calvi - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

I couldn’t wait to begin the story of the ill-starred romance between the young, striving George Washington and Mary Philipse, a New ...Read Review