18th Century
The Dark Side of the Mountain
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In the mid eighteenth century, a young couple named Michael and Anna Mallow arrive in Pennsylvania, two of the many who have left ...Read Review
Mistress Firebrand
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Jennifer Leighton is a playwright and a loyalist. In 1775 Manhattan, both her gender and her politics are against her. Theaters, especially those staging ...Read Review
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote some of the first proto-feminist tracts in the late 18th century, was an inspiration to her daughter Mary Godwin ...Read Review
Imposters of Patriotism
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Ted Richardson’s intriguing Imposters of Patriotism takes us on an exciting journey that explores the present-day effect of a fictionalized letter of ...Read Review
The Creole Princess
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Mobile, Alabama, 1776. Young Creole beauty Lyse Lanier meets handsome, foppish, Rafe Gonzalez. Rafe is Spanish, at a time when Spain’s political position ...Read Review
The Seats of the Mighty
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This latest entrant in the Early Canadian Literature Series brings back into print Gilbert Parker’s historical romance, which was wildly popular when ...Read Review
The Sword & the Scabbard: Thieves and Thugs and the Bloody Massacre in Boston
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Nicholas Gray and Maggie Magowan run the Sword and Scabbard, a tavern in Boston’s North End, in Allen Woods’ engrossing novel dramatizing ...Read Review
Burke and the Bedouin
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Tom Williams’ first novel about real-life Napoleonic-era spy, James Burke, was based on the factual record of his exploits in South America (His ...Read Review
WASP: Or, a Very Sweet Power
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When disgraced governess Bethany Harris is removed from the madhouse in which she has been incarcerated, by a mysterious black man known only ...Read Review
An Unlamented Death: A Mystery Set In Georgian England
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Adam Bascom, a young Norfolk doctor, comes across a body lying in a churchyard near his family home. The death appears accidental: no ...Read Review