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Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade

By Janet Skeslien Charles - Published 2024

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Following on her best-selling The Paris Library, Charles returns to the book stacks for a dual-timeline novel centered on the Great War and ...Read Review

Coronation Year

By Jennifer Robson - Published 2023

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Canadian author Jennifer Robson sets her newest novel in postwar Britain. It is 1953, Elizabeth II’s coronation year. As in Robson’s best-selling ...Read Review

The Counterfeit Wife: A Revolutionary War Mystery

By Mally Becker - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

Following on her award-nominated debut, The Turncoat’s Wife, this is volume two of Becker’s Revolutionary War Mysteries series. The setting is ...Read Review

Voices in the Dead House (The American Novels)

By Norman Lock - Published 2022

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Literary

The ninth installment in Lock’s The American Novels series brings together literary giants Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott. It is 1863, and ...Read Review

My Queen, My Love: A Novel of Henrietta Maria

By Elena Maria Vidal - Published 2021

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Biographical Fiction

Henrietta Maria in this book’s subtitle was the daughter of Henri IV (1553-1610), France’s first Bourbon king, and his wife Marie (1575...Read Review

The Mystery of Albert E. Finch: A Victorian Bookclub Mystery

By Callie Hutton - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

Prolific author Callie Hutton sets the third installment of her Victorian Book Club Mystery series in Bath, England. It is 1892, and our protagonist, ...Read Review

The New Land

By David O. Stewart - Published 2021

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Saga

The New Land—Book One in David O. Stewart’s trilogy, The Overstreet Saga—follows Johann and Christiane Oberstrasse from Rhineland Germany to ...Read Review

Queen of Blood

By Sarah Kennedy - Published 2021

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Novelist, poet, and Professor of English at Mary Baldwin University, award-winning scholar Kennedy sets her The Cross and The Crown series in Tudor ...Read Review

An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd

By Michael Burlingame - Published 2021

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Nonfiction

Michael Burlingame, author of the two-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A Life, turns his attention to Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Burlingame is ...Read Review

The Barrister and the Letter of Marque

By Todd M. Johnson - Published 2021

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Inspirational Romance Mystery/Crime

Protagonist Mr. William Snopes is a London barrister with a heightened social conscience. The well-born Madeleine Jameson, of Heathcote Estate in Essex, is ...Read Review

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