Old and new, here are some great books I keep in my attic loft.
Should Have Told You Sooner
2026
Should Have Told You Sooner is an emotionally layered story of lost chances, found courage, and the complicated path between …
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Beyond the Ghetto Gates
2020
Michelle Cameron’s wonderful historical novel, Beyond the Ghetto Gates, is set in Ancona, a seaport on the Adriatic in Central Italy. …
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Napoleon’s Mirage
2024
Napoleon’s Mirage by Michelle Cameron reunites the reader with the trio of main characters who inhabited the wonderful tale of …
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The Queen’s Musician
2025
I’ll say it—Mark Smeaton is my new favorite character of the Tudor era. In The Queen’s Musician, Martha Jean Johnson …
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The Vow
2024
I love great historical fiction about women. This one drew me in and made me question whether art can exist …
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In the Shadow of the Greenbrier
2024
Emily Matchar weaves an addictive tale of family secrets in her multi-generational tale, In the Shadow of the Greenbrier. Told …
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Saving Vincent
2025
This captivating novel will draw you in and hold you through its last word. I opened my copy of Saving …
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Finding Margaret Fuller
2024
You know I love Allison Pataki’s books, especially 2020’s The Queen’s Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty …
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The King’s Mother
2024
What a second act, after the triumph that was Cecily, Annie Garthwaite gives us the Plantagenet matriarch in all her glory …
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Broken Country
2025
In the first pages of BROKEN COUNTRY, the reader learns that Gabriel Wolfe has returned to Meadowlands. Just as when …
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Reputation
2021
I could not tear myself away from this engrossing, witty Regency-era social drama. It made me think of Elizabeth Bennet …
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No Life for a Lady
2023
In the first pages of #NoLifeforaLady, Violet, its nineteenth-century twenty-something heroine, sets out to find her mother, who disappeared a …
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The Tsarina’s Daughter
2022
The death of Peter the Great in 1725 threw Russia into a succession crisis. At its center is his daughter …
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