18th Century

The Jewel

By Catherine Czerkawska - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

When Jeany Armour first meets Rab Burns in the 1780s Scottish town of Mauchline, she hears he is “a lad best avoided by ...Read Review

The White Mirror

By Elsa Hart - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 18th-century China, tensions are escalating between the Emperor of China, the Tibetan king, and the Mongols in the north. Li Du, a ...Read Review

The Captain and the Countess

By Rosemary Morris - Published 2016

Genres:

Romance

The Right Honourable Captain Edward Howard and Kate, the Countess of Sinclair, feel a powerful attraction to each other; however, she is a ...Read Review

The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter

By John Pipkin - Published 2016

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This novel focuses on the turbulent years in Ireland from 1791 to 1823, when the pursuit of astrology and the mapping of the solar system ...Read Review

The Revelations of Carey Ravine

By Debra Daley - Published 2016

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London in the 1770s must have been an exciting place for those of a buccaneering nature and for the wealthy. This book tells ...Read Review

Agony and Eloquence: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution

By Daniel L. Mallock - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

Of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence, no two were closer friends than the eventual second and third US Presidents, Federalist ...Read Review

A Death at Fountains Abbey

By Antonia Hodgson - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Third in the Thomas Hawkins series, after The Devil in the Marshalsea and The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins, this novel is set ...Read Review

Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775

By Derek W. Beck - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

For many today, the American Revolution began on July 4, 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In truth, however, the War for ...Read Review

Death at the Boston Tea Party: A John Rawlings Mystery

By Deryn Lake - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

When an actress, traveling under an aristocratic alias, falls to her death from the riggings of a ship in the wake of the ...Read Review

The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

By Derek W. Beck - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

America’s Revolution began long before the Declaration was signed, when New England’s militiamen defied Great Britain on April 19, 1775, and harried its ...Read Review