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Betrayal
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Set in the late 1700s in England, this is the story of a girl who goes from nothing to… well, nothing. Aggie, or ...Read Review
Scarlet Town (Laurence Jago)
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Research can be a tricky area for writers of historical fiction. Some authors use it to fill out their pages, thickening their text ...Read Review
The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Portraits and Poison
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
London 1777. Lizzie Sancho, daughter of a teashop owner, and Dido Belle, an heiress living with her aunt and uncle at Kenwood House, have ...Read Review
The Investigators
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Sir John Franklin is best known for leading the doomed expedition in search of the Arctic Northwest Passage and where he perished in 1847. ...Read Review
Buccaneer (The Molucca Star Quartet)
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Set during the golden age of piracy in the Caribbean, Buccaneer is Book 1 in the series, The Molucca Star Quartet, and follows the ...Read Review
The Armour of Light (UK) / The Armor of Light (US) (The Kingsbridge Novels, 5)
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New technology threatens workers’ jobs, war causes shocking food price inflation, hungry children depend on a free school meal. Welcome to 1792 in Kingsbridge, ...Read Review
Sugar, Slaves and High Society: The Grants of Kilgraston 1750-1860
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Francis (1746-1818) Grant – ancestor of the author – and his brother John (1740-1793) left Scotland for Nova Scotia and Jamaica. They made a fortune ...Read Review
The Bottle Conjuror
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In the first historical fantasy novel of The Bottle Conjuror series, authors John Kachuba and Jack Gagliardo try to portray a cross-section of ...Read Review
Let the Dead Bury the Dead
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In her second novel, Allison Epstein blends the historical and the fabulous with an understated elegance. Set in an alternative pre-Revolutionary St. Petersburg ...Read Review
The Square of Sevens
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A girl called Red writes a memoir. It begins in 1730 with her hard, nomadic life as the child of a gypsy fortune teller. ...Read Review