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Heir to the Duke: The Duke’s Sons

By Jane Ashford - Published 2016

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The first installment in Ashford’s new series (Duke’s Sons) is sure to please lovers of the Regency era. We are introduced ...Read Review

Diary of an Accidental Wallflower

By Jennifer McQuiston - Published 2015

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Romance

Bestselling author Jennifer McQuiston offers the first book in her new Seduction Diaries series, Diary of an Accidental Wallflower, which is sure to ...Read Review

Willow

By Tonya Cherie Hegamin - Published 2014

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Children/Young Adult

Willow is a riveting coming-of-age story from award-winning author Tonya Cherie Hegamin (Most Loved in All the World). Set in 1848 on the Pennsylvania-Maryland ...Read Review

The Bride Insists

By Jane Ashford - Published 2014

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Romance

Jane Ashford, author of Once Again a Bride, delivers a charming historical romance set in Regency England. Governess Clare Greenough unexpectedly finds out ...Read Review

The Invention of Wings

By Sue Monk Kidd - Published 2014

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Sue Monk Kidd’s (The Secret Life of Bees) latest novel begins in early 19th- century Charleston, South Carolina, and follows the story ...Read Review

Long Live the King

By Fay Weldon - Published 2013

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Fay Weldon, novelist and screenwriter of Upstairs, Downstairs, delivers the second installment of her new trilogy. Long Live the King begins in December 1901, ...Read Review

Lara’s Gift

By Annemarie O’Brien - Published 2013

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Children/Young Adult

Debut author Annemarie O’Brien has created a wonderful middle grade novel set in Imperial Russia. The book tells the story of Lara, ...Read Review

The Painted Girls

By Cathy Marie Buchanan - Published 2013

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Cathy Marie Buchanan (The Day the Falls Stood Still) delivers a stunning novel of 19th-century Paris that will live in readers’ memories long ...Read Review