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The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journal...

Jim Fergus

The 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." �...

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Published: Sep 2018

Her Highness, the Traitor

Susan Higginbotham

Praise for Susan Higginbotham's Novels/strong"Susan Higginbotham transports her readers into a vividly portrayed past."—Helen Hollick, author of emThe Pendragon's Banner/em trilogy A daughter can be a dangerous weapon in ...

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Published: Jun 2012

Great House

Nicole Krauss

"[An] elegiac novel . . . achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity."-Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The New York Times Book Review (front page)For twenty-five years, a reclu...

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Published: Sep 2011

Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

Susan Meissner

In this new novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life, two women working in Hollywood during its Golden Age discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship.Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Sca...

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Published: Jan 2016

On a Cold Dark Sea

Elizabeth Blackwell

On April 15, 1912, three women climbed into Lifeboat 21 and watched in horror as the Titanic sank into the icy depths. They were strangers then…Con artist Charlotte Digby lied her way through London and onto the Titanic. The disaste...

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Published: Apr 2018

The Last September

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in Co...

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Published: Mar 2000

Honolulu

Alan Brennert

From the bestselling author of the "dazzling historical saga" (The Washington Post), Moloka'i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city "In Korea in t...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Secret Chord: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks

"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns:  love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." – Alice Hoffman, Th...

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Published: Oct 2016

Hall of Secrets

Cate Campbell

For generations, the Benedicts have been one of Seattle's most distinguished families, residing in the splendid Queen Anne mansion known as Benedict Hall amid a host of loyal servants. But the dawn of the 1920s and the aftermath of th...

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Published: Jan 2014

The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John)

Diana Gabaldon

Includes a preview of the new novel in the Outlander series."This could be the worthy Lord John Grey's breakout novel, as readers are treated to large dollops of Outlander hero Jamie Fraser. . . . The strong chemistry between the...

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Published: May 2012

Jeremy Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, ...

Winston Graham

Book 3 of the beloved Poldark novels, now the subject of a forthcoming major new series on Masterpiece™ on PBS®Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life in this third novel of the Poldark series. Reeling from the tragic de...

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Published: Aug 2015

The Unknown Shore

Patrick O'Brian

The Unknown Shore, a sort-of sequel to The Golden Ocean, is a fascinating blue-print for the Aubrey-Maturin series. We follow Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow, two unlikely neighbors and fast friends in whom we catch glimpses of the her...

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Published: Oct 1996

The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Weddin...

Jennifer Robson

"The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkFrom the internationally bestselling auth...

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Published: Dec 2018

Winter in Madrid

C. J. Sansom

A popular mystery writer breaks out with this page-turning international bestseller set in post-Civil War Spain September 1940: the Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid lies in ruin, while the Germans continue their march through Europe,...

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Published: Feb 2009

Anya

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

ANYA SAVIKIN lived among well-to-do Russian Jews in Poland, in a world more like Tolstoy's than our own, until the first bombing of Warsaw and the chaos that ensued. Her story incarnates the strength and love of eastern European Jewry...

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Published: Feb 2004

City of Schemes (A Counterfeit Lady N...

Victoria Thompson

Elizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she has built for herself in this all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling author Victor...

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Published: Nov 2021

The Wise Woman

Philippa Gregory

In this book, originally published after her bestselling debut with the Wideacre trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory takes readers to Henry VIII's England, on a journey to the outer reaches of passion, where ma...

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Published: May 2008

Empress Orchid

Anchee Min

EMPRESS ORCHID is the story of one of the concubines of the Chinese emperor in the last days of the Ch'ing dynasty. Though she is only 17, Orchid rises in the emperor's favor until, as the empire falls, she finds herself in the positi...

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Published: Apr 2005

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the ...

Diana Gabaldon

In her much-anticipated new novel, the New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey—soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana Gabaldon ...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Crimson Petal and the White

Michel Faber

The panoramic novel takes place in the 1870s, and focuses on a writer named William Rackham who is married to the sickly, depressed Agnes but is so enamored of a prostitute named Sugar that he hires her as governess for his daughter. ...

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Published: Sep 2003

Fall of Giants: Book One of the Centu...

Ken Follett

Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh bo...

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Published: Sep 2012

A Respectable Trade

Philippa Gregory

Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Silver Rose

Susan Carroll

Returning to her ancestral home to seek refuge from the turmoil of civil war and to grieve for her exiled family, Miri Cheney, the youngest and most powerful of the "Sisters of Faire Isle" and a gifted healter and clairvoyan...

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Published: Mar 2006

Zorro

Isabel Allende

Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the ha...

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Published: May 2006

The Russian Concubine

Kate Furnivall

A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her should...

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Published: Jun 2007

Oh My Stars

Lorna Landvik

I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you're a spice cake, you're a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food.Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up...

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Published: Feb 2006

The Last Town on Earth

Thomas Mullen

Wow. This stunning book succeeds on so many different levels--as an engrossing story, a character study, a history lesson, a modern day political allegory--I don't even know where to begin the praise. The Last Town on Earth centers on...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Hounds and the Fury

Rita Mae Brown

Critics and fans alike are wild about Rita Mae Brown’s richly imagined and utterly engaging foxhunting mysteries–and this latest novel promises more thrilling hunts, breathtaking vistas, and an all-new sinister scandal. Mi...

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Published: Sep 2007

A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashb...

Judith Merkle Riley

The bestselling novel that introduces Margaret of Ashbury and launches a trilogy featuring this irrepressible womanMargaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illit...

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Published: May 2006

The Dead Travel Fast

Deanna Raybourn

A husband, a family, a comfortable life: Theodora Lestrange lives in terror of it all.With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh—and a disappointed suitor—far behind....

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Published: Mar 2010
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