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  • The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

    The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.1940...
  • Season of Blessing by Beverly LaHaye, Terri Blackstock

    Season of Blessing by Beverly LaHaye, Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The fourth and final novel about the trials and joys of the residents of Cedar Circle. Sylvia Bryan has been feeling weak and tired, but is shocked when her internist finds a malignant lump in her breast. She and her husband can’t understand why God is allowing cancer to attack at a time when their missionary work is going so well...
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  • Prague Counterpoint by Bodie Thoene

    Prague Counterpoint by Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lindheim risked her life helping others escape pre-World War II Austria. The climactic ending finds her safely in Czechoslovakia, but not for long. A million other lives are endangered, and she cannot still their silent cry for help...
  • Bluebird by Sharon Cameron

    Bluebird by Sharon Cameron

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A historical novel, set in postwar New York City.In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth...
  • The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

    The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life...
  • Miss Devon's Choice: A Sweet Regency Romance by Sally Britton

    Miss Devon's Choice: A Sweet Regency Romance by Sally Britton

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    An arranged marriage, a choice to love, and the hope for a happily ever after. Rebecca Devon lives under the severe eye of her aunt, and the iron will of her father. She wears what she is told, befriends the people they choose for her, yet she spends every moment longing for freedom to do as she wishes...
  • Her Unexpected Courtship by Megan Walker

    Her Unexpected Courtship by Megan Walker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Isabel Reed has promised to marry for love. At present her heart belongs to the one companion she knows accepts all her eccentricities—her horse. So when her older brother threatens to trade the animal on a whim, Isabel must force aside her progressive beliefs and bargain to entertain her brother's flirtatious, albeit handsome, friend Lucas Ashcroft in exchange for keeping her horse...
    Categorized as:
    regency  christian  historical  humor  young adult
  • The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

    The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths...
  • Lions of the Desert by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Lions of the Desert by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lions of the Desert opens up in 1915, over a year after the conclusion of Arabian Winds. Nurse Allison Wescott arrives in busy Cairo to serve the British military confronting Kaiser's Germany and their ally, Turkey. In Cairo, Allison meets Major Bret Holden again after his return from London, and their previous romantic but rocky relationship is resumed...
  • Valiant Hearts by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Valiant Hearts by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Valiant Hearts concludes the sweeping World War I saga begun in Arabian Winds and continued in Lions of the Desert...
  • Cottonwood Whispers by Jennifer Erin Valent

    Cottonwood Whispers by Jennifer Erin Valent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this sequel to Jennifer’s award-winning debut novel Fireflies in December, Jessilyn Lassiter and her best friend Gemma Teague have survived prejudice and heartache in their lifelong friendship, but the summer of 1936 threatens to tear them apart yet again. Gemma’s job with the wealthy Hadley family leads to a crush on their youngest son...
  • Training the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Training the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An army officer who has returned to his childhood home . . .An earl’s daughter forced to earn her own living . . .Two damaged souls who find friendship . . . and love . . .Lieutenant-General Cyrus Cressley’s head wound leaves him blind in one eye and unsuited to lead men into battle...
  • North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

    North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 53 ratings
    'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England...
  • Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson

    Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance...
  • Seasons Under Heaven by Beverly LaHaye, Terri Blackstock

    Seasons Under Heaven by Beverly LaHaye, Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What does a child s life-threatening illness cost the neighbors of Cedar Circle? What joys can be hidden in life s greatest tragedies? Behind brightly lit windows and on front porches, marriages are tested and mended, hearts broken, hopes resurrected, dreams released and reformed, values and futures shaped, and faith rekindled . . . or found for the first time...
  • Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene

    Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Predating the events of The Zion Chronicles Series, Vienna Prelude opens in pre-World War II Austria. Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, is of Jewish heritage but has adopted an Aryan stage name. Thus she is able to travel and play in Germany even though a 1935 law forbade Jewish musicians to do so...
  • The Agency for Scandal by Laura Wood

    The Agency for Scandal by Laura Wood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a scandalous upper class world straight out of Bridgerton and using their wit and bravery to unmask a villain. Eighteen-year-old Isobel Stanhope is keeping a lot of secrets...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  victorian  young adult  historical
  • Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester

    Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves...
  • An Officer, Not a Gentleman by Elizabeth Johns

    An Officer, Not a Gentleman by Elizabeth Johns

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Despite Tobin O'Neill's humble origins, he finds himself a lieutenant in His Majesty's army, serving on Wellington's staff. When the roguish Irishman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a General's daughter, they somehow become enmeshed in navigating the perils of the greatest battle of their age.Bridget Murphy had grown up following the drum...
  • The Prodigal: A Ragamuffin Story by Brennan Manning, Greg Garrett

    The Prodigal: A Ragamuffin Story by Brennan Manning, Greg Garrett

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jack Chisholm is on top of his game: lead pastor of a big church in a big city, thousands of members, a huge physical plant. His books sell millions of copies, and he is a public figure, sharing his life's philosophy: 'We have got to do better.' He is also living a lie---nobody could be as holy as his congregants think he is, and like all of us, he has his share of faults, flaws, sins...
  • The Secret of Bow Lane by Jennifer Ashley

    The Secret of Bow Lane by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    A stranger who appears on Kat's doorstep turns out to be one Charlotte Bristow, legal wife of Joe Bristow, the man Kat once believed herself married to—who she thought died at sea twelve years ago. Kat is jolted by Charlotte’s claims that not only was Joe murdered, but he had amassed a small fortune before he died...
  • An Unwitting Alliance by Anneka R. Walker

    An Unwitting Alliance by Anneka R. Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cassandra Vail has but one objective at the Kellens’ she must secure a proposal from her eminently suitable suitor. Instead, she finds her best-laid plans thwarted by another man—the handsome and thoroughly vexing Mr. Harwood. Thanks to his meddling, Cassandra is faced with an unthinkable her parents take matters into their own hands and betroth her to a complete stranger...
  • The Improper Duke by Scarlett Osborne

    The Improper Duke by Scarlett Osborne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “You are making it very hard for me to be good…”For proper Duke Joseph, meeting a lady in the dark garden of a ball is scandalous...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  young adult
  • While the City Sleeps by Elizabeth Camden

    While the City Sleeps by Elizabeth Camden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Katherine Schneider's workaday life as a dentist in 1913 New York is upended when a patient reveals details of a deadly plot while under the influence of laughing gas. As she is plunged into danger, she seeks help from the dashing Lieutenant Jonathan Birch, a police officer she has long admired from afar...
  • While the City Sleeps by Elizabeth Camden

    While the City Sleeps by Elizabeth Camden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Katherine Schneider's workaday life as a dentist in 1913 New York is upended when a patient reveals details of a deadly plot while under the influence of laughing gas. As she is plunged into danger, she seeks help from the dashing Lieutenant Jonathan Birch, a police officer she has long admired from afar...
  • While the City Sleeps by Elizabeth Camden

    While the City Sleeps by Elizabeth Camden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Katherine Schneider's workaday life as a dentist in 1913 New York is upended when a patient reveals details of a deadly plot while under the influence of laughing gas. As she is plunged into danger, she seeks help from the dashing Lieutenant Jonathan Birch, a police officer she has long admired from afar...
  • The Rise of Miss Notley by Rachael Anderson

    The Rise of Miss Notley by Rachael Anderson

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Miss Coralynn Notley’s father barters her off to the first titled gentleman to come along, she realizes she must flee her home or be forced to wed a despicable man. Driven by desperation, she applies for the position of housekeeper at Tanglewood Manor, the home of the handsome Mr. Jonathan Ludlow. The moment Jonathan sees Miss Notley, he is intrigued...
    Categorized as:
    christian  regency  young adult  humor  historical  clean
  • Stain of Guilt by Brandilyn Collins

    Stain of Guilt by Brandilyn Collins

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As I drew, the house felt eerie in its silence. . . . A strange sense stole over me, as though Bland and I were two actors on stage, our movements spotlighted, black emptiness between us. But that darkness grew smaller as the space between us shrank. I did not know if this sense was due to my immersion in Bland's face and mind and world, or to my fear of his threatening presence. Or both . .
  • A Match in the Making by Jen Turano

    A Match in the Making by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Miss Gwendolyn Brinley accepted a temporary paid companion position for the Newport summer season, believing it would be a lark to spend the summer in America's most exclusive town. She suddenly finds her summer turning anything but amusing when her employer expects her to take over responsibilities as an assistant matchmaker...
  • The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

    The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    It has been twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city to its western twin. Among the reformers is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones, recently graduated from medical school...
  • Pilfered Promises by M. Louisa Locke

    Pilfered Promises by M. Louisa Locke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It is the winter of 1880, and the future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate’s law practice is taking off. Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant. And they are looking forward to spending their first Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays together...
  • The Lost Brother by Sarah Woodbury

    The Lost Brother by Sarah Woodbury

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    November 1146. Gwynedd is at war with Ranulf, Earl of Chester, who seeks to gain a foothold in Wales against the day peace finally comes to England. On the eve of King Owain’s counter-assault on Mold Castle, the body of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Gwen is discovered buried in someone else’s grave...
  • The Fallen Princess by Sarah Woodbury

    The Fallen Princess by Sarah Woodbury

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hallowmas 1144. With the harvest festival approaching, Gareth has returned from fighting in the south, hoping for a few months of peace with Gwen before the birth of their first child...
  • Web of Lies by Brandilyn Collins

    Web of Lies by Brandilyn Collins

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was washing dishes when her world began to blur.Chelsea Adams hitched in a breath, her skin pebbling. She knew the dreaded sign all too well. God was pushing a vision into her consciousness.Black dots crowded her sight. She dropped a plate, heard it crack against the porcelain sink. Her fingers fumbled for the faucet. The hiss of water ceased.God, I don’t want this...
  • the Cape Refuge by Terri Blackstock

    the Cape Refuge by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Thelma and Wayne Owens run a bed and breakfast in Cape Refuge, Georgia. They minister to the seamen on the nearby docks and prisoners just out of nearby jails, holding services in an old warehouse and taking many of the "down-and-outers" into their home...
  • My Sister's Intended by Rachael Anderson

    My Sister's Intended by Rachael Anderson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    For as long as Prudence can remember, it has been understood that her sister will one day wed the eldest son of their nearest neighbor. Such an alliance will benefit both families and bring a great deal of joy to all parents involved. Unfortunately, Prudence has never been able to feel as joyful...
    Categorized as:
    christian  regency  young adult  humor  historical
  • Fleur de Lis by Sarah M. Eden

    Fleur de Lis by Sarah M. Eden

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thirteen years ago, Henri Fortier left a tumultuous life in France to begin anew in England. His adopted country has become home, and his dearest friends, the Gents, are family. Unfortunately, ties to the past still plague him, and he’s forced to live in near destitution. Henri secretly publishes his poetry to supplement his meager income, but it is both insufficient and risky...
  • Thief of Glory: A Novel by Sigmund Brouwer

    Thief of Glory: A Novel by Sigmund Brouwer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Brouwer makes you live it....sharing each moment of an exotic and terrifying time and place in a gripping, personal way.” —Bodie and Brock Thoene, authors of Take this Cup   A boy coming of age in a time of war… the love that inspires him to survive...
    Categorized as:
    christian  suspense  young adult  historical  war
  • The Bride of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep

    The Bride of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    The Continuing Adventure of Jackson and Kit!   Detective Jackson Forge can hardly wait to marry the street-sly swindler who’s turned his life upside down...
  • The Paris Notebook by Tessa Harris

    The Paris Notebook by Tessa Harris

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ‘Gripping, compelling and beautiful.’ Emma Cowell, author of The House in the Olive Grove A secret big enough to destroy the Führer’s reputation. . . January 1939: When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor’s clinic, she doesn’t expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook...
  • Darcy in Distress: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Laraba Kendig

    Darcy in Distress: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Laraba Kendig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mr. Darcy is rich, well-connected and handsome, but he is also exhausted, broken-hearted and afraid. Can Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet find happiness together?Fitzwilliam Darcy’s father was an unreliable rake who brought their family much trouble before his death. Darcy’s fears are potent, but his resolve to care for his sister and mother is strong...
    Categorized as:
    christian  regency  historical  humor  young adult
  • A Wager with the Gentleman by Sadie Bosque

    A Wager with the Gentleman by Sadie Bosque

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A timid bluestocking… Stuck in her little cottage with her three sisters and an aging father her entire life, Miss Beatrice Fowley has never had the chance to experience the real world. After being jilted by a charming viscount, she now has to marry a seventy-year-old lord intent on begetting an heir and a spare...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  young adult
  • Her Scandal of a Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Emma Linfield

    Her Scandal of a Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Emma Linfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “What else can I do?”“Marry me.”Phoebe never wanted it to end like this. After two years on the marriage mart, to be ruined by scandal! And even worse, forced to marry a man she can never love…While trying to unmask his brother’s killer, Duke Phillip just wanted to make sure Phoebe returned home safely. But no good deed goes unpunished and soon, he has no choice but to marry her...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  young adult
  • A Match for the Unbending Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Hazel Linwood

    A Match for the Unbending Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Hazel Linwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Never met a woman so testing in all my days…”After a fire breaks out, the dowager duchess and her companion, Selina, are forced to stay at her grandson’s estate. But even as the Duke proves to be a fearsome man, Selina is not one to stand by anyone’s insults…Duke Morgan’s intimidating appearance has made every one of his sister’s governesses run for the hills...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  young adult
  • A Wallflower Ruined by the Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Ava MacAdams

    A Wallflower Ruined by the Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Ava MacAdams

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I am yours to ruin for the Season, Your Grace…”After four fruitless Seasons, Lady Sally Winston stands alone as the sole wallflower among her wedded friends. Unable to taste passion, she decides to do the find a male prostitute to satisfy her own curiosity…Forced to take over his cousin’s gaming hell, the Duke of Swanage is notorious for being a rake, a gambler, and his own family’s murderer...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  young adult
  • Educating Elizabeth by Jennifer Moore

    Educating Elizabeth by Jennifer Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, Elizabeth Miller has dreamed of opening a school for underprivileged girls in London’s East End. But despite her best efforts, she soon discovers that the cost of running the fledgling school may spell disaster for the endeavor. In desperation she turns to the one man she’d rather Lord Charles Chatsworth, a rich and carefree flirt whose scandalous reputation she despises...
  • Beneath the Duke's Mask by Hanna Hamilton

    Beneath the Duke's Mask by Hanna Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "In her disobedience, I found the freedom I never knew I craved"After his parent’s passing, Duke Philip devoted himself to looking after his younger brother and always following the rules. But despite his strict nature and the need for a proper wife, he can't get the ton's most unruly woman out of his mind..
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  young adult
  • Seducing his Wicked Duchess by Ava MacAdams

    Seducing his Wicked Duchess by Ava MacAdams

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “What if I do not want you to control yourself, Your Grace?”A year ago, Miss Anne was held at knifepoint by a man she thought she loved. And even though she is back in London for the Season as if nothing happened, she can't get the chivalrous Duke that risked his life to save her out of her head.Benjamin's only goal is to avenge his father's murder...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  young adult
  • The Duke's Pretend Bride by Hanna Hamilton

    The Duke's Pretend Bride by Hanna Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I never believed in love, but in its presence, my faith begins to rekindle again…”Duke Henry has stopped believing in love after experiencing his parents' troubled marriage. But as the pressure to find a wife grows, he makes an intriguing proposal to a broken lady...After being hurt by a deceitful man, Natalia has vowed to remain a spinster...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  young adult
  • Brink of Death by Brandilyn Collins

    Brink of Death by Brandilyn Collins

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The noises, faint, fleeting, whispered into her consciousness like wraiths passing in the night.Twelve-year-old Erin Willit opened her eyes to darkness lit only by the dim green nightlight near her closet door and the faint glow of a street lamp through her front window. She felt her forehead wrinkle, the fingers of one hand curl as she tried to discern what had awakened her...
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