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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

Across The Sweet Grass Hills

By Gail L. Jenner - Published 2001

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In Montana Territory the wagon transporting Liza Ralston and her father is attacked by outlaws. Their guide is killed, and her father is ...Read Review

Star Bright

By Miranda Jarrett - Published 2000

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Romance Saga

The Fairbourne family saga continues in Star Bright. Diana Fairbourne left America for London to find a titled husband, and her mission is ...Read Review

Primrose Past

By Caroline Rose Hunt - Published 2001

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This book is subtitled The 1848 Journal of Young Lady Primrose and indeed the book’s lovely design simulates a diary. Unfortunately, its entries ...Read Review

Snow Mountain Passage

By James D. Houston - Published 2001

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Biographical Fiction Epic

Based on the Donner Party tragedy of 1846-47, Snow Mountain Passage tells of American emigration to California in the mid-1800s. Through “The ...Read Review

An Ordinary Woman

By Cecelia Holland - Published 2001

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Adventure Biographical Fiction

This is the story of Nancy Kelsey, the first American woman in California, and an elemental part of that great state’s early ...Read Review

Breaking The Rules

By Sandra Heath - Published 2001

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Historical Fantasy Romance

Ursula Elcester find no happiness in the thought of her upcoming marriage, arranged by her father in order to keep Elcester village and ...Read Review

Sister Noon

By Karen Joy Fowler - Published 2001

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Literary

In Gilded Age San Francisco, Lizzie Hayes is a volunteer for the Ladies’ Relief and Protection Society. A plain spinster of forty, she’...Read Review

The Winter Holiday Sampler: Seventeen Wonderful Stories of Regency England

By Kelly Ferjutz Ed. - Published 2000

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Romance

The result of a second contest designed to solicit story entries (the first resulted in A Regency Sampler), this collection’s requirements were ...Read Review

A Dangerous Compromise

By Shannon Donnelly - Published 2001

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Romance

Clarissa Derhurst is in London for her first season and is determined to a find a rake, with whom she can have a ...Read Review

Raven Mocker

By Don Coldsmith - Published 2001

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Western

The twenty-ninth entry in Coldsmith’s Spanish Bit Saga, Raven Mocker follows the story of Snakewater, a conjurer (healer) of the Cherokee people ...Read Review