19th Century
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
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If you have ever wondered about how people lived in 19th-century England—from their underclothes to breastfeeding to personal grooming to laundry—this ...Read Review
Turrwan
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Turrwan is set in the early colonising days of Australia, when a relatively small free “whitefella” population controlled rather larger convict and ex-convict ...Read Review
Mesabi Pioneers
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A little-known side chapter in nineteenth-century American history forms the basis for this tightly-constructed and well-done novel (the first in a projected trilogy): ...Read Review
Rogue Spy
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I feel I should lead with a disclaimer: This is the first ever romance novel – historical or otherwise – that I have read. However, ...Read Review
Conversations with Beethoven
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Toward the end of his life, Beethoven was deaf and plagued by illness. In order to communicate with him, family, friends, and acquaintances ...Read Review
Robert B. Parker’s The Bridge
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Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and his deputy, Everett Hitch, are back again and living in Appaloosa, near the Rio Blanco River west of ...Read Review
Gwendolen
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Gwendolen is a retelling of George Eliot’s classic Victorian novel Daniel Deronda and finally gives a clear voice to its ill-starred heroine. ...Read Review
Eleanor Marx: A Life
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There are some people whose lives intersect during an era in which great changes occur; there are others who are instrumental in ensuring ...Read Review
Hearts Stolen (A Texas Romance Book 2)
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This stand-alone, second volume in McAdoo’s “Texas Romance” series finds Sassy Nightengale, a young wife held captive by the Comanche for five ...Read Review
I’ve Got My Duke to Keep Me Warm
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For reasons of their own, both James Montcrief and Gisele Whitby are incognito; James is wallowing in liquor and self-pity in the aftermath ...Read Review