Category: historical


The Falconer By Elizabeth May

The Falconer Author: Elizabeth May Category: Young Adult Publisher: Chronicle Books Release Date: 5-6-14 Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, was destined for a life carefully planned around Edinburgh’s social events – right up until a faery killed her mother. Now it’s the 1844 winter season and Aileana slaughters faeries […]

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Ex Libris Audio: Out Of The Easy

Out Of The Easy Author: Ruta Sepetys Narrator: Lauren Fortgang Performance: Excellent Available Now It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than […]

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Manor Of Secrets By Katherine Longshore

Manor Of Secrets Author: Katherine Longshore Category: Young Adult Publisher: Scholastic Release Date: 1-28-14 The year is 1911. And at The Manor, nothing is as it seems . . . Lady Charlotte Edmonds: Beautiful, wealthy, and sheltered, Charlotte feels suffocated by the strictures of upper-crust society. She longs to see the world beyond The Manor, […]

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A Mad, Wicked Folly By Sharon Biggs Waller

A Mad, Wicked Folly Author: Sharon Biggs Waller Category: Young Adult Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 1-23-14 Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old […]

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Witchstruck by Victoria Lamb

Witchstruck Author: Victoria Lamb Category: Young Adult Publisher: Harlequin Teen Release Date: 9-24-13 Meg Lytton has always known she is different—that she bears a dark and powerful gift. But in 1554 England, in service at Woodstock Palace to the banished Tudor princess Elizabeth, it has never been more dangerous to practice witchcraft. Meg knows she […]

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Review + Giveaway: A Spear Of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn

A Spear Of Summer Grass Author: Deanna Raybourn Category: Fiction Format: ARC Publisher: Harlequin/Mira Release Date: 4-30-13 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather’s […]

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