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18th Century

A Place of Secrets

By Rachel Hore - Published 2010 Published 2012

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This story starts in the present as Jude, a young widow who works at an auction house, is sent to Norfolk to value ...Read Review

The Girl in the Mask

By Marie-Louise Jensen - Published 2012

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Adventure Children/Young Adult

Sophia is an intelligent, energetic girl who reads Aphra Behn’s plays, rides horses and is a crack shot. She also has a ...Read Review

A Dark Anatomy

By Robin Blake - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

Robin Blake’s latest novel, set in 18th-century Lancashire, takes the reader on a journey through time and technique. Blake deftly recreates Preston, ...Read Review

Highland Storms

By Christina Courtenay - Published 2012

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Romance

Heartbroken Brice Kinross travels from Sweden to take up the reins of the family estate, Rosyth, in Scotland. Having been betrayed by his ...Read Review

Under the Same Sky

By Genevieve Graham - Published 2012

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Romance

Maggie and her sisters are left to fend for themselves in colonial South Carolina after their brutish father dies in a freak accident. ...Read Review

A Simple Murder

By Eleanor Kuhns - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

Maine, 1796, a Shaker settlement. The Shakers are a fascinating movement; their lifestyle and worldview could make for an absorbing historical novel. Sadly, this ...Read Review

Season of Light

By Katherine McMahon - Published 2011

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Thomasina (Asa) Ardleigh is 19 years old and wants to change the world. In Paris in the spring of 1788, she immerses herself in the ...Read Review

The Constant Lovers

By Chris Nickson - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

The winter of 1732 saw too many violent crimes and deaths. Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, is looking forward to a peaceful summer. But ...Read Review

A Passel of Hate

By Joe Epley - Published 2011

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“You can’t sit on the fence anymore,” a character tells Jacob Godley in Joe Epley’s ripping-good Revolutionary War novel, A Passel ...Read Review

The Gauntlet Runner

By S. Thomas Bailey - Published 2011

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Jacob and Maggie Murray, young Pennsylvania pioneer farmers, are the main characters in this story set against the background of the French and ...Read Review