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18th Century

The Kingdom of This World

By Alejo Carpentier - By Pablo Medina (trans.) - Published 2017 Published c1949

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Originally published in Spanish in 1949 and translated soon after, this second English translation offers a new edition of the classic novel based on ...Read Review

Phoebe’s Light

By Suzanne Woods Fisher - Published 2018

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Inspirational Romance

In this first book in the new Nantucket Legacy series from Suzanne Woods Fisher, she turns her keen historical storytelling loose on the ...Read Review

Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History

By Lesley Adkins - By Roy Adkins - Published 2017

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Nonfiction

This book is fascinating. It’s excellently well written, painting the characters involved in a very engaging way—one of those superbly done ...Read Review

The Four Horsemen

By Gregory Dowling - Published 2017

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Thriller

The Four Horsemen is the second in a series of books following the adventures of Alvise Marango, an 18th-century Venetian tourist guide and ...Read Review

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

By Diana Gabaldon - Published 2017

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Short Stories

Gabaldon fans awaiting the ninth installment of the main Outlander series will be delighted with this hearty snack of seven novellas, which fill ...Read Review

Crossing Point

By James Glickman - Published 2017

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The American Revolution has begun, and is threatening to spill out of Boston in April 1775 when Guy Watson, slave to Rhode Island’s ...Read Review

The Bloody Black Flag

By Steve Goble - Published 2017

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Adventure Mystery/Crime Nautical

Spider John Rush was a married carpenter, but forced by circumstance into piracy. Now he and his friend Ezra must once again join ...Read Review

The Captain’s Girl

By Nicola Pryce - Published 2017

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Adventure

Set in Cornwall in 1793, the early scenes in this book reminded me of Daphne du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek. However, the story ...Read Review

I, Eliza Hamilton

By Susan Holloway Scott - Published 2017

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Biographical Fiction

In 1777, Elizabeth Schuyler met the one man who’d change her life, and the fledgling nation as well. At the home of her ...Read Review

The Tiger’s Prey: A Novel of Adventure (Courtney Family Novels)

By Tom Harper - By Wilbur Smith - Published 2017 Published 2017-10-17

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Adventure

“Aurangzeb died two years ago… the Mughal Empire is tearing itself apart,” Ana, a Goanese merchant, informs Tom Courtney, an English trader in ...Read Review