18th Century
A Travel in Time to Grand Pre
In 2005, Madeline St. Clair celebrates her 26th birthday by attending Acadian Day at Grand Pre Historic Park in Canada.…
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Editors' choice
Everyone knows Madame Tussaud’s; the name conjures photo ops of smiling celebrities standing next to perfect likenesses of themselves in…
Blown Off Course
Blown Off Course is the seventh in David Donachie’s adventures of John Pearce, radical, press-ganged man, and reluctant Navy officer.…
Palace of Justice
October 1793, Paris: Marie Antoinette is on her way to the guillotine, and police investigator Aristide Ravel realizes that a…
The Wake of the Lorelei Lee
Editors' choice
L. A. Meyer has penned another winner in The Wake of the Lorelei Lee, the eighth installment in the brilliantly…
The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Benjamin Franklin
Fourteen-year-old Patience Martin is unhappily indentured to the sick and demanding widow Abedela Worth. But when Mrs. Worth dies unexpectedly,…
The Winter Sea
Historical subjects come to life for a modern novelist in Kearsley’s fascinating The Winter Sea. To explain how and why…
Valley Forge
In the winter of 1777, the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, established winter quarters at Valley…
City of Dreams
Boston book dealer and treasure hunter, Peter Fallon, makes a reappearance in this, the most recent of Martin’s suspense novels…
The Silent Duchess
In 18th-century Sicily Marianna is born to a life of extravagant luxury, daughter of charming, affectionate Duke Signoretto Ucria. She…
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