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18th Century

The Body on the Doorstep

By A. J. Mackenzie - Published 2016

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Late on a moonless night in Kent in 1796, Reverend Hardcastle opens the rectory door to find a man shot, dying, whispering four mysterious ...Read Review

The View from Prince Street

By Mary Ellen Taylor - Published 2016

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In modern-day Alexandria, Virginia, Rae McDonald has a successful career as a family therapist. Her own life is stagnant, her heart sealed off ...Read Review

Scarpia

By Piers Paul Read - Published 2015 Published 2016

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Best known for Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read reprises his renowned journalistic style in his latest novel. Set in the ...Read Review

The French Lesson

By Hallie Rubenhold - Published 2016

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1792. Henrietta Lightfoot, the 19-year-old daughter of an earl, has left behind her country and respectability to live as the paramour of George William ...Read Review

Wild Rover No More: A Bloody Jack Adventure

By L. A. Meyer - Published 2016

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Adventure Children/Young Adult

This is the twelfth and allegedly last volume of the adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, also known as Bloody Jack, the Scourge of ...Read Review

The Dutch Girl

By Donna Thorland - Published 2016

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A prim schoolmistress with a scandalous secret. A handsome highwayman fighting for romantic ideals. A dangerous spy mission with the fate of nations ...Read Review

Culloden: Scotland’s Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire

By Trevor Royle - Published 2016

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Military Nonfiction

The battle that ended Bonnie Prince Charlie’s hopes in 1746 had consequences that exploded across the globe. Trevor Royle traces the effects of ...Read Review

The Tsarina’s Legacy

By Jennifer Laam - Published 2016

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Veronica Herrera, newly discovered lost daughter of the Romanovs and rightful heir to the throne, travels to Russia to accept the official, if ...Read Review

Deadly Peril

By Lucinda Brant - Published 2015

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Adventure

First of all, I have to confess that I had never read a book set in the Georgian time period, though I had ...Read Review

Five Guns Blazing

By Emma Rose Millar - By Kevin Allen - Published 2015

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Adventure Nautical

“Convict’s daughter, Laetitia Beedham, is set on an epic journey from the back streets of London, through transportation to Barbados and grueling ...Read Review