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  Wedlock

  by Wendy Moore

  With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of eager suitors, at eighteen she married the handsome but aloof ninth Earl of Strathmore in a celebrated, if ultimately... (more)
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  The Grenadillo Box: A Novel

  by Janet Gleeson

  New Year's Day, 1755 The life of Nathaniel Hopson, journeyman to the illustrious cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, is about to take a chilling turn. He has been sent to Cambridge to install a new library at the country home of Lord Montfort. Moments after the foul-tempered Montfort storms away from the afternoon dinner, a gunshot is heard. Hopson runs to the library to find him dead. His nephew and lawyer believe... (more)
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  The Secret of the Rose

  by Sarah L. Thomson

  Grade 6-8–Rosalind Archer, 14, has led a simple life in the Elizabethan countryside. However, when her merchant father is imprisoned for practicing the forbidden Catholic faith, she and her younger brother Robin make their way to London to find him, hoping to gain his release. They lose their money to clever thieves, and, discovering that the friends theyve been told to turn to have also been arrested, they are... (more)
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  Soldier of Fortune (Captain Rawson 1)

  by Edward Marston

  The first in a series of adventure novels featuring Captain Rawson spy, linguist, sportsman, duellist, ladies man and career soldier involved in the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough during the war of the Spanish Succession.
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  The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

  by Andrea Wulf

  This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It’s the story of a garden revolution that began in America. In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of plants and seeds from the American colonies, addressed to the London cloth merchant Peter Collinson. Most of... (more)
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  The Time Travelers [GIDEON TRILOGY #01 TIME T]

  by Linda(Author) Buckley-Archer

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  Jane Austen: The Complete Novels

  by Jane Austen

  Jane Austen wrote in the eighteenth century, but her novels are timeless. This complete anthology is unique among single-volume editions of her work because it includes the obscure but delightful Lady Susan , along with the six better-known novels and thirty of Hugh Thomson's irresistible drawings. All of Jane Austen's novels are love stories, all are stories of country gentry, and all end happily, one way or... (more)
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  Lie by Moonlight

  by Amanda Quick

  New York Times -bestselling author Amanda Quick, called "an exceptional storyteller" by the Los Angeles Daily News , and "one of the best and brightest voices in the romance genre" by Booklist , presents a novel of thrilling historical romantic suspense, set in late Victorian England.
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  The Lambs of London: A Novel

  by Peter Ackroyd

  From the author of Chatterton and Shakespeare: A Biography comes a gripping novel set in London that re-imagines an infamous 19th-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will in time achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for Children , are still living at home, caring for their dotty and maddening parents. Reading Shakespeare is the siblings’ favorite reprieve, and... (more)
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  The Black Moth

  by Georgette Heyer

  THE HIGHWAYMAN'S LADY Disguised as a highwayman, Jack Carstares, the wrongly disgraced Earl of Wyncham, found himself again face-to-face with the wicked Duke of Andover. This time the Black Moth was attempting to abduct dark-haired beauty Diana Beauleigh. Once more Jack's noble impulse to save the day landed him in trouble, but not before sending the villainous duke scurrying. Diana took her gallant rescuer... (more)
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  Royal Escape

  by Georgette Heyer

  Dispossessed of crown and kingdom, the young Charles II must flee for his life, across Cromwell's England bound for a Channel port and a ship to France. But the irrepressible King, with his love of adventure and his unmistakable looks, is not an easy man to hide. From the Paperback edition.