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18th Century

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

By Jon Meacham - Published 2012

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If you think you know all about Thomas Jefferson, read Jon Meacham’s brilliant 2012 biography, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. Mr. Meacham ...Read Review

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

By Tom Reiss - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

The swashbuckling heroes in Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo have stirred the imaginations of millions of ...Read Review

The Raven’s Seal

By Andrei Baltakmens - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

Gentleman Thaddeus Grainger idles his days, wasting his fortune, in 1776 England. One evening in a notorious tap-room he sees his nemesis, Mr. Massingham, ...Read Review

The Werewolf of Paris

By Guy Endore - Published 2012

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Historical Fantasy

Werewolves are enjoying a fine romp across current literature and cinema. Though the filming techniques were cheesy, watching Lon Chaney transform from wolf ...Read Review

Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune, Serving the Emperor 1788-1791

By Christoph Wolff - Published 2012

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Nonfiction

Christoph Wolff is an eminent scholar, and in this nonfiction work offers new insights into the last four years of Mozart’s life. ...Read Review

If Two Are Dead

By Jonathan Carriel - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

Thomas Dordrecht is perplexed. Daniel Sproul, a partner in the shipping firm he works for, has been found dead on the street. But ...Read Review

Tyburn (The Highwaymen)

By Kevin Grote - Published 2011

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This e-book is the story of a highwayman and his female companion who made English roads unsafe at the end of the eighteenth ...Read Review

The Mirrored World

By Debra Dean - Published 2012

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The Mirrored World is a fictional memoir set in Russia just before and during the rule of Catherine the Great and details, with ...Read Review

Barbados Bound

By Linda Collison - Published 2012

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Nautical

Portsmouth, England,1760: Penniless Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a plantation owner in Barbados, stows away on board a ship bound for Barbados ...Read Review

Love’s Reckoning

By Laura Frantz - Published 2012

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Inspirational Romance

Eden Lee’s tyrannical father is determined that his new apprentice, Silas Ballantyne, will marry one of his daughters. The family assumes it ...Read Review