Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. ...
Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mys...
Victoria ThompsonRisking her own life in a quest for justice, midwife Sarah Brandt enlists the help of Sergeant Frank Malloy to discover the truth surrounding the brutal murder of a young woman from the Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend, a refuge ...
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With...
Margaret GeorgeMuch has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas ore...
In 1537, the conflict in England between Catholics and the newly established Church of England is at its height, as monasteries are closed and turned into secular institutions. When a Church official is murdered in one of them, a hunc...
These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah...
Nancy Turner'A thread of truth can weave a powerful story. Plumb powerful, as Sarah Prine might say....Taking great-grandmother Sarah's diary as an inspiration, Tucson novelist Nancy E. Turner has spun a frontier novel that teeters on the fine e...
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frigh...
In a time of intrigue and betrayal, the huntress is on a quest that could jeopardize two empires and two great queens: Catherine de Medici and Elizabeth I.The year is 1585–and prophecy has foretold the coming of a daughter of th...
A skillful and graceful imagining of the hero's point of view in one of the most beloved and enduring romance stories of all time. As Darcy records his struggles to avoid falling in love with Elizabeth Bennett and the difficulties ...
A meticulously detailed historical novel, set against the turbulent backdrop of fifteenth-century Florence, chronicles the life and times of Madonna Lisa, the mysterious woman who becomes the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous...
During Word War II, a family fnds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlop...
Madame Tussaud of the French Revoluti...
Michelle MoranThe world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire . . . but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Mor...
We Shall Not Sleep (World War One Nov...
Anne PerryAnne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry’s talents “have taken a quant...
Enjoying her successes as a merchant, exiled fifteenth-century single mother Anne incites the wrath of chauvinist local merchants who resent competition from a woman, a situation that threatens to reveal her son's identity as the ille...
In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the aut...
Hidden in a Whisper, repack (Westward...
Tracie PetersonWestward Chronicles Book 2 Rachel has secured herself a rare position at the newest Harvey House in New Mexico. She looks forward to a new life there, far from the memories and longings of her heart--only to find that the very man her...
One of Marie Claire's Best Women's Fiction of 2019! One of Bookbub's biggest books of 2019"If you enjoyed "The Tattooist of Auschwitz," read "The Huntress," by Kate Quinn." The Washington PostFrom the aut...
The Wicked Day (The Arthurian Saga, B...
Mary StewartBorn of an incestuous relationship between King Arthur and his half sister, the evil sorceress Morgause, the bastard Mordred is reared in secrecy. Called to Camelot by events he cannot deny, Mordred becomes Arthur's most trusted couns...
The Secret Warriors (Men at War, 2)
W. E. B. GriffinWashington, D.C., 1942: With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Can...
2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she...
From New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets…In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into th...
Includes a Reading Group Guide and Author Q&A The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms...
Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised—a bright dream that turned to ashes when her br...
The Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Cree...
Jennifer ChiaveriniA Roaring Twenties adventure unfolds in The Quilter's Homecoming, as Jennifer Chiaverini continues her bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series 'that neatly stitches together social drama and the art of quilting' (Library Journal). As youn...
After her father is taken away by Union soldiers, Adair Randolph Colley, who is 18 at the height of the Civil War, is herself imprisoned on a false charge of spying for the enemy. The prison commander, Major William Neumann, falls in ...
A stunning debut novel in the vein of Sarah Waters' historical fiction and inspired by true events, it tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her t...
As the 1938 hurricane bears down on Rhode Island, a storm of another kind is brewing in this novel that "blends history, romance, and social commentary into...much more than a summer guilty pleasure" (Connecticut Post)...Mem...
A Greater Glory (Trials of Kit Shanno...
James Scott BellBook 1 of THE TRIALS OF KIT SHANNON by James Scott Bell, a Christy Award winner. Having proved she's a legal success, Kit Shannon again battles injustices found in Los Angeles, the city she has come to love. She now takes up the cause...
Under the Light of the Italian Moon: ...
Jennifer AntonA promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love forever Fonzaso Italy, between two wars Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughter of a strong-willed midwife, she is...
A fictional account of FDR's romance with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, follows their pre-World War I affair, its impact on his marriage, and FDR and Mercer's reacquaintance years later as he prepared for an unprecedented t...
The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journal...
Jim FergusThe stunning sequel to the award-winning novel One Thousand White Women: A Novel."Clever and satisfying...Fergus is a superb writer [and] the characters are as real as any pioneer women who braved the rigors of westering." �...