18th Century

Ashes: Seeds of America

By Laurie Halse Anderson - Published 2016

Genres:

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

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/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

The Lady of the Lakes: The True Love Story of Sir Walter Scott

By Josi S. Kilpack - Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical FictionInspirationalRomance

Edinburgh, 1790s: Walter Scott, a young man with a romantic temperament, falls deeply in love with a young girl, Mina, from the very ...Read Review

Wild Wicked Scot

By Julia London - Published 2016

Genres:

Romance

This novel’s title reveals its genre. A rough-around-the-edges Scottish laird marries a delicate English lady at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion. ...Read Review

The Scarlet Widow

By Graham Masterton - Published 2016

Genres:

Thriller

After being orphaned at 16, in the year 1750, Beatrice is sent to live with her aunt. She then marries a preacher named Francis Scarlet, ...Read Review

Two Empresses

By Brandy Purdy - Published 2017

Genres:

Multiple vivid worlds exist within this story that begins on Martinique, the lush tropical island home of cousins Rose and Aimee, who are ...Read Review

The Lunar Cats

By Lynne Truss - Published 2016

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This is a novel about the fight between good and evil, of well-meaning retired librarians and adorable demon kittens. Alec Charlesworth, ex-librarian, occasional ...Read Review

The Last Great American Magic

By L. C. Fiore - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The life of the great Shawnee warrior-leader Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet form the imaginative center of L. C. Fiore’s beautifully ...Read Review

The Thief’s Daughter

By Victoria Cornwall - Published 2016

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Cornwall, England, in the 1700s is a dreary, impoverished, and tough place to live. When Jenna was a child, she had an experience ...Read Review

An Almond for a Parrot

By Wray Delaney - Published 2016Published 2017Published 2017-02-28

Genres:

Romance

In Newgate Prison, courtesan and arbiter of fashion Tully Truegood awaits trial for murder and passes the time writing her memoirs. She has ...Read Review