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The Queen's Mistake: In the Court of ...

Diane Haeger

From the author of The Secret Bride, the tragic tale of the fifth wife of Henry VIII…When the young and beautiful Catherine Howard becomes the fifth wife of the fifty-year-old King Henry VIII, she seems to be on top of the world. Ye...

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Published: Oct 2009

The First Desire

Nancy Reisman

1929. Buffalo, New York. A beautiful July day, the kind one waits for through the long, cold winters. Sadie Feldstein, née Cohen, looks out her window at the unexpected sight of her brother, Irving. His news is even more unexpect...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Summer Before the War

Helen Simonson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a sma...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Painter from Shanghai

Jennifer Cody Epstein

Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist.Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of 'The Hall of Eternal...

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Published: Apr 2009

Time After Time

Lisa Grunwald

A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond. "Readers who enjoyed Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife wil...

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Published: Jun 2020

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincol...

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Published: Feb 2018

Fallen Women

Sandra Dallas

From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver's newly wealthy, to the seamy life of desperate women, Fallen Women illuminates the darkest places of the human heart. It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen ...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Botticelli Secret

Marina Fiorato

In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Bottice...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Secrets of Mary Bowser

Lois Leveen

Based on a remarkable true story, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is an inspiring tale of one daring woman's willingness to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history All her life, Mary has been a slave to the wealthy Van ...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Concubine

Norah Lofts

Acclaimed and beloved historical novelist Norah Lofts brings to life the danger, romance, and intrigue of the Tudor court that forever altered the course of English history. The king first noticed Anne Boleyn as a heartbroken sixteen-...

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Published: Jun 2008

A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury: A King,...

Edith Pargeter

A masterful tale of 14th century England, as fans of Edith Pargeter's The Brothers of Gwynedd have come to expect. Henry Bolingbroke, banished and deprived of his inheritance by Richard II, returns and deposes the king to become Henry...

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Published: Nov 2010

Queen Jezebel: A Catherine de' Medici...

Jean Plaidy

Back in print after twenty years, the final novel in the classic Catherine de' Medici trilogy (that includes Madame Serpent and The Italian Woman) from the bestselling grande dame of historical fiction.The aging Catherine de' Medici h...

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Published: Mar 2013

The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel...

Pip Williams

“Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review   WINNER ...

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Published: May 2022

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Susan Crandall

Whistling past the graveyard. That's what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear. . . . In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Missis...

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Published: Mar 2014

West of Here

Jonathan Evison

At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the nam...

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Published: Jan 2012

Wanting

Richard Flanagan

Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan's Wanting is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. Now in paperback, it links two icons of Western civilization throu...

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Published: Jun 2010

A Wedding Wants a Bridegroom

Amelia Grey

A Promise Can Be a Terrible ThingAll heiress Sophia Hart's father wanted was for her to marry a gentleman with a title. She promised him on his deathbed she would do just that. But the only man Sophia wants to spend time with is Matso...

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Published: Jul 2013

Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates

In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voi...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Essex Serpent: A Novel

Sarah Perry

A Kirkus Review Best Book of 2017 and a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction. Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year, selected as the Waterstones Book of the Year, and a Costa Book A...

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Published: Apr 2018

The Book of Shadows

James Reese

Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope ...

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Published: Dec 2002

Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle (Tr...

Rosalind Miles

In the first volume of a trilogy chronicling the lives of star-crossed Celtic lovers Tristan and Isolde, Isolde, a gifted healer and princess destined to inherit the Irish throne from her mother, falls in love with Tristan, nephew of ...

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Published: Jun 2003

The Story of a Marriage

Andrew Sean Greer

A Today Show Summer Reads PickNPR Critics' Lists: Summer 2008'We think we know the ones we love.' So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever trul...

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Published: Mar 2009

Daughter of Joy (Brides of Culdee Cre...

Kathleen Morgan

Trying to make sense of her losses after losing her husband and young son, Abigail Stanton takes a job as housekeeper for Conor MacKay, a confusing, often volatile man who also carries deep pain--and secrets--in his inscrutable heart

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Published: Jul 1999

Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath

Sigrid Undset

In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The...

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Published: Dec 1997

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

Jennifer Ryan

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir unfolds the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of a village choir during World War II As England becomes enmeshed in the early da...

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Published: Sep 2017

Brave Enemies of the American Revolut...

Robert Morgan

As the War for Independence wore on into the 1780s, unrest ruled the Carolinas. Settlers who had cleared the land after the Cherokees withdrew were being mustered for battle as British forces pillaged their hard-won farms. Robert Morg...

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Published: Oct 2007

All the Stars in the Heavens: A Novel...

Adriana Trigiani

Adriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife, returns with her biggest and boldest novel yet, a hypnotic tale based on a true story and filled with her signature elements: family...

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Published: Jul 2016

The Wind Done Gone

Alice Randall

Alice Randall's controversial spinoff/parody of Margaret Mitchell's GONE WITH THE WIND is told not from the point of view of the rich white folks, but through the eyes of the beautiful Cynara, daughter of a white plantation owner and ...

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Published: Apr 2002

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet

Colleen McCullough

Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. But what about their sister Mary? At the conclusion of Jane Austen's classic novel, Mary, bookish, awkward, and by all accounts, unmarriageable, is sentence...

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Published: Nov 2009

Secrets of the Chocolate House (Found...

Paula Brackston

The second novel in a bewitching series "brimming with charm and charisma" that will make "fans of Outlander rejoice!" (Woman's World Magazine)New York Timesbestselling author Paula Brackston’s The Little Sho...

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Published: Sep 2020
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