Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in the 19th Century.
19th Century
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Wild and Distant Seas: A Novel
by Tara Karr Roberts
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
by Scott Shane
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Dec 2024
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane....
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A Council of Dolls: A Novel
by Mona Susan Power
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.
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Murder by Degrees: A Mystery
by Ritu Mukerji
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering woman doctor as she investigates the disappearance of a young patient who is presumed dead.
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Season of the Swamp: A Novel
by Yuri Herrera
Hardcover: Oct 2024
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
by Douglas Brunt
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I - this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel.
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Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
by Paulette Jiles
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the ...
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Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
by David Diop
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
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Let Us Descend: A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years ...
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The Lost Wife: A novel
by Susanna Moore
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Paperback: Aug 2024
From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing, immersive novel about a seminal and shameful moment in America's conquest of the West. Drawing partly from a true story, it brings to life a devastating Native American revolt and ...
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
by Noliwe Rooks
Hardcover: Jul 2024
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation.
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The General and Julia: A Novel
by Jon Clinch
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and intimate novel from the author of the "masterly" (The...
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