19th Century
The Other Bennet Sister
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Based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, this is the story of Mary Bennet, the plain and quiet middle sister who likes ...Read Review
The Last Passenger: A Charles Lenox Mystery
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This last of the three prequels to Finch’s Charles Lenox mysteries finds our aristocratic detective in his late twenties, in 1855, feeling the ...Read Review
The Workhouse Waif
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1867, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. This crisis-to-comfort tale concerns young Megan Hopkins, the eponymous waif, whose mother and younger siblings are split up within the ...Read Review
The Inconvenient Elmswood Marriage (Penniless Brides of Convenience)
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In 1820 Kate and Daniel, Lord Elmswood, entered a marriage of convenience. She manages his estate and, later, raises his three orphaned nieces when ...Read Review
A Delicate Deception (The Regency Impostors)
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1824. Amelia Allenby is outraged to encounter a very large man on her usual walk. Has she not, after all, fled to this remote ...Read Review
The Devil’s Due (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure)
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In this third in series entry, Dr. Watson leads us through a memoir of one of Holmes’ past cases. I am no H&...Read Review
The Penmaker’s Wife
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In 1880 London, Angelica, an attractive Frenchwoman, is unhappy in her marriage to an Englishman. Wishing for a better life for her and her ...Read Review
The Water Dancer
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Oprah Winfrey selected this lyrical, imaginative novel for her Book Club’s revival, and it is an impressive work in the vein of ...Read Review
The Masked Baron
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With questions neither asked nor answered, Andalin Durante’s father whisks her away during the night to Braitwood Hall, the home of Ellison, ...Read Review
Captain James Lockwood
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In 1823, Captain James Lockwood is ordered to take raw recruits from Ireland to Guyana in South America to help suppress a possible slave ...Read Review
