From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one...
FICTION / Historical / General
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Auteur:Robertson, Donald L.Sommaire:Callum Logan faces a challenge along a trail he has traveled before. But this time, he is accompanied by precious cargo. Is he destined to fail, or will his experience, cunning, fists, and guns blast his way to success?
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Auteur:Velton, SoniaSommaire:When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God's will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara quickly realizes that the Thorel household is built on hypocrisy and...
- Auteur:Simmons, DanSommaire:
Dan Simmons seamlessly weaves together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, from the Battle of the Little Bighorn up through the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, depicting a violent and...
- Auteur:Johnson, Julia ClaiborneSommaire:
It's 1938 and women seeking a quick split from their husbands head to Reno, Nevada. There's one catch: they have to wait six-weeks to become "residents." Many of these soon-to-be divorcees flock to the Flying Leap, a...
- Auteur:Cantor, JillianSommaire:
Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women's perspective.
- Auteur:Kim, JuheaSommaire:
An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter In 1917, deep in the...
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Auteur:Perkins-Valdez, DolenSommaire:In the bitter aftermath of a terrible, bloody war, as a divided nation tries to come together once again, Madge, Sadie, and Hemp are caught up in a desperate, unexpected battle for survival in a community desperate to lay the pain of...
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Auteur:Donoghue, EmmaSommaire:A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.
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Auteur:Chevalier, TracySommaire:An immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War, from internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiance, Violet...
- Auteur:McHugh, ClareSommaire:
Clare McHugh tells the story of Victoria, the Princess Royal, from her younger years as the apple of her father Albert's eyes through her rise to power atop the mighty German empire to her final months of life.
- Auteur:Todd, CharlesSommaire:
Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed...
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Auteur:Atkinson, KateSommaire:War survivor Teddy Todd is a would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather who must navigate a rapidly changing world, living in a future he never expected to have.
- Auteur:Baldacci, DavidSommaire:
WWII veteran Aloysius Archer is fresh out of prison and heads to California, where there's money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three.
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