19th Century

Arizona War: A Colton Brothers Saga

By Melody Groves - Published 2008

Genres:

Western

The three Colton Brothers get caught up in the American Civil War in 1861 while local Apache uprisings continue to create problems for Texas ...Read Review

Burn English

By William A. Luckey - Published 2008

Genres:

Western

Burn English is well known in the West for his knowledge of breeding and training horses. Injured as a young man when he ...Read Review

The Golden Volcano: The First English Translation of Verne’s Original Manuscript

By Edward Baxter (trans. and ed.) - By Jules Verne - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure

In 1899, the Gold Rush is on—in Africa, in California, and in northwestern Canada. Montreal residents Ben Raddle and his cousin Summy Skim ...Read Review

Best of Covered Wagon Women

By Kenneth L. Holmes (ed.) - By Michael L. Tate (intro.) - Published 2008

Genres:

NonfictionWestern

Collected in Best of Covered Wagon Women are eight mid-19th century accounts of the Western overland journey. These journals and several letters ...Read Review

Billy Boy

By Jean Mary Flahive - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

This is a fictionalized account inspired by the life of the true Billy Laird, the only American Civil War soldier from the state ...Read Review

The Salisbury Manuscript

By Philip Gooden - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In a Victorian world of stormy nights, the Slater family of Salisbury learns of a document written by a dissipated forebear that could ...Read Review

Forevermore

By Cathy Marie Hake - Published 2008

Genres:

InspirationalRomanceWestern

Hope Ladley makes her living in 1890s Texas driving from farm to ranch, looking for families who need temporary domestic help, moving on ...Read Review

The Open Door

By Elizabeth Maguire - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Constance Fenimore Woolson, the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, was a popular novelist and travel writer in the latter half of the 19th ...Read Review

The Guns of El Kebir

By John Wilcox - Published 2007 (UK)Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

The Victorian Empire lends itself quite easily to historical novelists willing to perform the necessary spadework in research tools to provide the setting ...Read Review

Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess

By Ruth Brandon - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

The governess has played a more important role in literature than she was ever afforded in real life. Most did not have the ...Read Review