18th Century

The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis

By Joan DeJean - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

What kind of man secures a royal decree to lock up his pregnant daughter and ship her to the colonies? Beauty and cruelty ...Read Review

Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America And Europe

By John Ferling - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

Ferling’s new entry explores the vision of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe of an independent America and a democratic Europe. ...Read Review

Slave Old Man

By Linda Coverdale (trans.) - By Patrick Chamoiseau - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

This novel begins: “In slavery times in the sugar isles,” which we later deduce to be Martinique. It’s an arresting story of ...Read Review

Mary B

By Katherine J. Chen - Published 2018

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The Austen continuation genre has gained another literary take with this debut novel focused on the character of Mary Bennet. The story begins ...Read Review

Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

By L.M. Elliott - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Set in late-1700s New York during the American Revolution, this is an entertaining homage to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical, Hamilton. Peggy Schuyler, ...Read Review

Blood on the Heather

By Griselda Gifford - Published 2017

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Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Set in the Highlands of Scotland in 2017, with a time-slip to 1745, an era of red coats and Jacobites, this charming novel reveals the ...Read Review

The Captain’s Nephew

By Philip K. Allan - Published 2017

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AdventureNautical

During the 1790s, fighting between England and France on the Atlantic become continuous battles. At this time, HMS Agrius, captained by Percy Follett ...Read Review

The Wolf of Dalriada

By Elizabeth Gates - Published 2016

Genres:

Adventure

Confused by the frequent changes of location, date and point of view, it took some time for me to come to grips with ...Read Review

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler

By Laura Kamoie - By Stephanie Dray - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Hamilton, the smash Broadway musical, was the authors’ inspiration for this sweeping novel about Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. The writing ...Read Review

Once There Was Fire: A Novel of Old Hawaii

By Stephen Shender - Published 2016

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While many readers or movie watchers are familiar with the story of Hawaii told by James Michener, very few know of the early ...Read Review