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,...
FICTION / Historical / General
- Auteur:Halls, StaceySommaire:
- 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: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 and sent to...
- 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 mother,...
- 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: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...
- Auteur:Moyes, JojoSommaire:
Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their unforgettable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium When Alice Wright...
- Auteur:Burdick, SerenaSommaire:
Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes...
- Auteur:Hannah, KristinSommaire:
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman...
- Auteur:Cornick, NicolaSommaire:
1560: Amy Robsart hatches a desperate scheme to escape a loveless marriage, the consequences of which will echo through the centuries. Present day: Lizzie Kingdom is forced to withdraw from the public eye in a blaze of scandal when she...
- Auteur:Auci, StefaniaSommaire:
Driven by an insatiable desire to rise above his station and fueled by a nobility that scorns him, Vincenzo sacrifices family and love to transform his tiny spice shop into a trading empire. The name Florio soon instills fear and...
- Auteur:Harper, KarenSommaire:
Joan plots to scandalize Edward, Prince of Wales, and the royal family, for she has learned they engineered her father's downfall and death. But what begins as a calculated strategy soon grows into love. When Joan learns that Edward...
- Auteur:Kline, Christina BakerSommaire:
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail...
- Auteur:Greeley, MollySommaire:
For everyone who loved Pride and Prejudice-and legions of historical fiction lovers-an inspired debut novel set in Austen's world. In this Pride & Prejudice-inspired novel, not everyone has the luxury of waiting for love....
- Auteur:Simons, PaullinaSommaire:
Tatiana Metanova's world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia. Yet there is light in the darkness when she meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. He is drawn to Tatiana, and she to him. But their...
- Auteur:May, James L.Sommaire:
A political prisoner incarcerated on the island of Solovetsky, the most notorious Russian prison camp of the 1920s, is mysteriously conscripted to solve the murder of a fellow inmate.
- Auteur:Winspear, JacquelineSommaire:
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and...
- Auteur:Quinn, Kate, Dray, Stephanie, Kamoie, Laura, Knight, E., Perinot, Sophie, Webb, HeatherSommaire:
Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers-six unforgettable women whose...
- Auteur:Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her sister Mary, widow of President Lincoln, has attempted suicide. If Mary's sisters can put past grievances aside, will their love be powerful enough to save her?
- Auteur:Harper, KarenSommaire:
A young widow and candlemaker, Varina Westcott, agrees to travel to Wales to investigate the suspicious death of the newly married Prince Arthur as a secret request of Queen Elizabeth of York, the wife of Henry VII. But with each clue,...
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