Lawyer and journalist Matteo Teresi discovers the existence of a secret sect which initiates devout virgins into the rites of married life, preying on their naivete while promising them divine grace.
FICTION / Historical / General
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Auteur:Camilleri, AndreaSommaire: - Auteur:Barrett, KerrySommaire:
What makes Esther, born and bred in London, a proud Suffragette, suddenly leave the city and escape to Elm Heath? And when Lizzie uncovers Esther's heartbreaking secret, could it give her the strength she needs to save not just the...
- Auteur:Ewen, Pamela BinningsSommaire:
This novel based on the real life of Coco Chanel reveals an unseen side to the celebrated icon as she trades fashion for espionage during World War II to protect her name, her business, and her legend.
- Auteur:Joel, AlexandraSommaire:
Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, Grace mixes with counts and...
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Auteur:Hicks, RobertSommaire:In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son,...
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Auteur:Whitehead, ColsonSommaire:In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two...
- Auteur:Adams, AlinaSommaire:
Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, this family saga centers on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family, each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for love...
- Auteur:Hargrave, Kiran MillwoodSommaire:
Absalom Cornet comes to the tiny Arctic town of Vardø from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But...
- Auteur:Halls, StaceySommaire:
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her newborn, Clara, at London's Foundling Hospital, young Bess Bright returns to reclaim the illegitimate daughter she has never really known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care,...
- Auteur:Penner, SarahSommaire:
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the...
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Auteur:Rogan, CharlotteSommaire:In the summer of 1914, Grace elopes with Henry Winter in London. When the elegant ocean liner carrying them home to America suffers a mysterious explosion, Henry sacrifices his own safety and secures Grace a seat in a lifeboat, which...
- Auteur:Chang, JanieSommaire:
China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates are entrusted with a 500-year-old collection of Chinese myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends, and must...
- Auteur:Bobotis, AndreaSommaire:
Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had, including the murder that no one talks about. Then her wayward sister suddenly returns, determined to expose the Kratts' skeletons.
- Auteur:Martin, MadelineSommaire:
1940. As the Blitz rains down bombs night after night, a devastating attack leaves London's literary center in ruins. Miraculously, Grace's bookshop survives the firestorm. Through blackouts and air raids, Grace continues...
- Auteur:Harper, KarenSommaire:
This novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the Boleyns, one of England's most powerful families, through the eyes of the eldest daughter, Mary. This book tells Mary Boleyn's life story from when she was ten years old...
- Auteur:Sayers, ConstanceSommaire:
Lara Barnes is on top of the world. But when her fiancé disappears on their wedding day, every plan she has for the future comes crashing down. Desperate, Lara's search for answers unexpectedly leads to her great-grandmother'...
- Auteur:Abbs, AnnabelSommaire:
Lucia Joyce, daughter of Irish novelist James Joyce, is a gifted and motivated dancer, training tirelessly with some of the finest teachers in the world. Though her father delights in his daughter's talent, she clashes with her...
- Auteur:Harper, KarenSommaire:
Born into a first family of Ireland, with royal ties on both sides, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, known as Gera, finds her world overturned when Henry VIII imprisons her father, the Earl of Kildare, and brutally destroys her family. Torn from...
- Auteur:Wecker, HeleneSommaire:
Chava, a golem, and Ahmad, a jinni, become unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures, until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into separate worlds. But a powerful menace will bring them...
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Auteur:Williams, BeatrizSommaire:The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau-a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.The...
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