When battlefield nurse Bess Crawford returns from France for a well-earned Christmas leave, she finds a bruised and shivering woman huddled in the doorway of her London flat. Realizing that the woman has nowhere to turn, Bess offers her...
Historical fiction
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Author:Todd, CharlesSummary: - Author:Bergren, Lisa TawnSummary:
Dans leurs nouvelles vies en Amérique, Tora, Elsa, Kaatje et Karl doivent tous faire face à une tragédie personnelle qui menace de briser tous les rêves qu’ils avaient échafaudés avant de quitter la Norvège. Les multiples mensonges...
- Author:Miller, JudithSummary:
With the Great War fueling anti-German hysteria, agents of President Wilson's Council of National Defense threaten to disfigure Jutta Schmidt, torch her family's bakery, and butcher her parents unless she returns to the Amana colonies...
- Author:Davis, MarySummary:
A bouquet of brides is picked for love. Meet seven American women who were named for various flowers but struggle to bloom where God planted them. Can love help them grow to their full potential' Holly and Ivy by Mary Davis (1890,...
- Author:Gabaldon, DianaSummary:
In 1772, the rift between Britain and its American colonies has put a frightening word into the minds of all concerned: revolution. Violence has already reared its ugly head in rural North Carolina, as cabins have been burned to the...
- Author:Gist, DeeanneSummary:
Set to lose half his timberland in 1866 Washington Territory unless he finds a wife soon, widower Joe Denton places an order for a bride who can cook. When she arrives, the bonnie lass certainly cooks up a storm--but she knows nothing...
- Author:Gist, DeeanneSummary:
Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house. Yet fate brings him to Constance, who claims to be...
- Author:Harrington, LauraSummary:
Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's former maid takes a new job as Christmas approaches-but not everyone in the household may survive the holidays in this tension-filled novel from bestselling author Anne Perry. After leaving her position...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
As suspenseful as it is heartwarming, set in Jerusalem, the latest Christmas novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry is the perfect holiday treat. When Victor Narraway, Thomas Pitt's close friend and former boss, and his...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
Spurred by holiday cheer and a surprise hidden in Christmas pudding, an elderly aristocrat tries to right a past wrong by solving a decade-old murder in the latest Christmas novella from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry....
- Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary:
It's 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together-though they have little idea how to create such a life. Enman brings Una...
- Author:Morris, Lynn, Morris, GilbertSummary:
By 1866, Dr. Cheney Dufall has had her fill of places where people distrust her skill simply because she is a woman. So she and her assistant, Shiloh, return to Cheney's home in New York City, wher she can set up practice among "...
- Author:Chisholm, P. F.Summary:
It's late August, 1592. Sir Robert Carey, cousin to Queen Elizabeth from the wrong side of Henry VIII's blanket, remains at his post on the Borders at Carlisle. He has at last been confirmed by his monarch as Deputy Warden, is...
- Author:Hozy, S.P.Summary:
A time of turmoil, when destinies were forged… In this searing historical novel by Toronto author S.P. Hozy, set amid the turmoil of early twentieth century Shanghai, three women, one Russian, one Chinese, and one French, determine the...
- Author:Pearce, MichaelSummary:
The world is changing around the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police. It's 1912 and there's a war on that no one's heard of. When an Italian man is murdered in the city's back streets, there is...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Charles Todd returns to the world of Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge in a series that the New York Times Book Review called 'harrowing psychological drama' and the Washington Post Book World hailed as 'among the most intelligent...
- Author:Ibbotson, Eva.Summary:
In 1912 England, 19-year-old Harriet Morton leads a dreary existence. Her ballet class is her only joy. When Father won't let her travel on a ballet tour to South America, Harriet creates a clever ruse that covers her escape and...
- Author:Schwab, VictoriaSummary:
Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle. The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, and the final book in the...
- Author:Thomas, SherrySummary:
The game is afoot as Charlotte Holmes returns in USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas' Victorian-set Lady Sherlock series. Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of...
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