19th Century
Nobody’s Secret
The young Emily Dickinson narrates this tale that takes place during her fifteenth year, in between her school terms. A…
Vintage Tomorrows: A Journey Through Steampunk into the Future of Technology
When a historian and a futurist collaborate, you might expect stasis, but Carrott and Johnson postulate nothing less than a…
The Princess Alice Disaster
The sinking of the pleasure steamer Princess Alice in the Thames in September 1878 was the worst inland water accident…
A Home at Trail’s End
This third book in the Homeward on the Oregon Trail series continues, without introduction, the story of Elizabeth Martin, a…
Hell or Richmond
North vs. South, Grant vs. Lee – what could be more engrossing? This novel, a followup to the author’s Cain…
Inheritance: Book One of Southern Son, the Saga of Doc Holliday
Doc Holliday is reimagined in this first book of a trilogy on the man and the legend, delving into never-before-related…
This House is Haunted
Norfolk, 1867. Eliza Caine, aged 21, is alone in the world after the sudden death of her father. Still grieving,…
The Daughters of Gentlemen
The strength, and possibly also the weakness, of this Victorian mystery lies in its intricate plotting. From the unpromising start…
On Her Way Home
In On Her Way Home, six years have passed since Frieda first moved to the Arizona-Sonora border. Now the mother…
The Reformer’s Apprentice: A Novel of Old San Francisco
Rochlin’s Desert Dwellers Trilogy begins with The Reformer’s Apprentice. Seventeen-year-old Frieda Levie has lived a charmed life north of Market…
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