"The kind of book for which the word "rollicking" was invented."--New York Times Book Review One of Bustle's Best New Books Out June 2021. A Popsugar Best Summer Read of 2021A prim and proper lady thief must...
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Author:Holton, IndiaSummary: - Author:O'Faolain, NualaSummary:
Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the 19th century and her own...
- Author:McIntyre, HopeSummary:
Jasmine bursts into the world unlike your typical newborn child and is anointed a "jail baby." Born in prison, raised by a mother who revolves in and out of the correctional system, tossed in and out of foster care, Jasmine is...
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Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary:It’s 1842. 14-year-old Jennie Lawrence has been found guilty of stealing, and finds herself aboard one of the few women-only convict ships destined for Australia.
Jennie had been desperate – and, as she gets to know the other...
- Author:Wiggs, SusanSummary:
Gifted physician Blue Calhoun runs a medical practice in San Francisco while raising his son alone. Then a female fugitive with a gunshot wound shows up. Soon he is drawn to her fragile beauty, her nerves of steel, and the mystery...
