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18th Century

The Enemies of Versailles

By Sally Christie - Published 2017

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This is the last of the Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, focusing on the rivalry between Madame Adelaide, daughter of Louis XV, and the ...Read Review

Birdcage Walk

By Helen Dunmore - Published 2017

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Bristol in the latter decade of the 18th century. Elizabeth (or Lizzie as she is mostly known), narrates the story in the first ...Read Review

The Newcomer

By Suzanne Woods Fisher - Published 2017

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Inspirational Romance

The Newcomer—2nd in the Amish Beginnings series—begins where the first book leaves off. Anna Konig and her group arrive in Port ...Read Review

The Mark of the King

By Jocelyn Green - Published 2017

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Inspirational Romance

This Christian fiction novel follows Julianne Chevalier, a 25-year-old Parisian midwife, after the tragic death of a client. She’s accused of fatal ...Read Review

Trail of Miracles

By Aloma Halter (trans.) - By Smadar Herzfeld - Published 2017

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Literary

Israeli author Herzfeld’s first English-language release is short but lyrically powerful. Addressing the God she loves, Gittel, a Jewish woman born in ...Read Review

Fool Me Twice

By Philippa Jane Keyworth - Published 2016

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Romance

Driven by desperate financial circumstances, Caro Worth lives a double life, as a respectable young woman of Georgian society by day and as ...Read Review

Golden Hill

By Francis Spufford - Published 2016 Published 2017

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Literary

In November of 1746, young Mr. Smith, fresh from London, hops off a ship in New York and hightails it to Lovell & Company ...Read Review

The Hidden Thread

By Liz Trenow - Published 2017

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This quiet novel centers on a gentle romance set against the backdrop of the silk industry in 1760s London. Inspired by the unknown ...Read Review

Ashes: Seeds of America

By Laurie Halse Anderson - Published 2016

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Children/Young Adult

This story, third in the Seeds of America series, picks up in June 1781 with escaped slaves Isabel and Curzon in South Carolina. It ...Read Review

The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts

By Avi - Published 2017

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Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

Oliver Cromwell Pitts, born decades after the Restoration deposed his grim namesake, awakens in the middle of the night with his coastal home ...Read Review