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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
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In November 1864, General John Bell Hood ordered the army of Tennessee to perform a frontal assault against a secure Union defensive position outside ...Read Review
The Marplot Marriage
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Mischievous, fun-loving Phoebe Bridgerton and her stuffy cousin-in-law, Charles Hargood, are thrown into matrimony because of the inconvenient but extremely entertaining circumstance of ...Read Review
In the Name of Salome
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Alvarez alternates between the story of Salome Urena, a poet in the politically turbulent Dominican Republic of the nineteenth century and that of ...Read Review
Blazing Tree: A Michael Merrick Mystery (Michael Merrick Mysteries)
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Adamson, whose previous mysteries have been set in present day Puerto Rico, begins a new series with this book. Set in 19th century ...Read Review
A Time for Treason
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After George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River, they fought the British Army using gunpowder obtained from Bermuda, a British colony. ...Read Review
The French Mathematician:A Novel
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“Mathematics is my life.” This doesn’t seem a very exciting declaration coming from the protagonist of a historical novel set in revolutionary ...Read Review
No Rest for the Dove
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No Rest for the Dove reunites Charlotte Willett and Richard Longfellow, neighbors and amateur sleuths in colonial Massachusetts, in solving a murder. The ...Read Review
The Overmountain Men (Tennessee Frontier)
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Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Cumberland House is republishing Judd’s fictional history of the early days of that state in three handsome trade ...Read Review
Apalachee
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Set in Florida and South Carolina between 1704 and 1715, this richly-textured story follows the intertwined lives of Native American, Spanish, and British characters and ...Read Review
The Rose Grower
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In 1789, monumental changes took place in France. Australian writer Michelle de Kretser’s debut novel begins on the famously fateful 14th of July — ...Read Review