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18th Century

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

By Charlie Lovett - Published 2014

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Welcome to the world of Jane Austen and Richard Mansfield, two 18th-century writers who truly love great literature. When they meet, Jane is ...Read Review

Rogues’ Nest

By Nick Smith - Published 2013

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Adventure Nautical

Rogues’ Nest is a pirate-based adventure with all the ingredients of a swashbuckling read. First mate, the Englishman, Ormes, joins forces with Captain ...Read Review

Madame Tussaud’s Apprentice

By Kathleen Benner Duble - Published 2014

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Children/Young Adult

Shortly before the Reign of Terror breaks out during the French Revolution, Celie Rousseau loses her family to hunger. She is saved on ...Read Review

Fate and Fair Winds

By Dory Codington - Published 2013

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Romance

A familiar star-crossed-lovers twist informs the basic plot of Dory Codington’s historical romance Fate & Fair Winds: John FitzSimmon, a major in ...Read Review

Treasure Island

By R. L. Stevenson - Published 2014

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Children/Young Adult Nautical

The HNS magazine allows 300 words for a review, but Treasure Island really only needs four: a cracking good read. Two would also cover ...Read Review

The Miner & the Viscount

By Richard Hoskin -

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Saga

The wild and beautiful landscape of the Cornish coast and countryside forms the backdrop for Hoskin’s long and engrossing novel set 18th-Century ...Read Review

How to Ruin a Queen

By Jonathan Beckman - Published 2014

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Nonfiction

How could a beautiful Austrian princess become Queen of France only to be satirized, scorned, slandered and slain by the cruel blade of ...Read Review

The Man with the Lead Stomach: The Nicolas Le Floch Investigations 2: A Nicholas Le Floch Investigation

By Jean-Francois Parot - By Michael Glencross (Translator) - Published 2009-01-15 Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

In 1761, Paris police commissioner Nicholas Le Floch rushes to investigate the apparent suicide of a young aristocrat. Nicholas immediately deduces that the young ...Read Review