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A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar: A Novel
Suzanne Joinson - Bloomsbury
Format: Book
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It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write... |
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The Dovekeepers: A Novel
Alice Hoffman - Scribner
Format: Book
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Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean... |
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Fever: A Novel
Mary Beth Keane - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century - by an award-winning writer chosen as one of "5 Under 35" by the National Book Foundation.Mary Beth Keane, named... |
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The Paris Wife: A Novel
Paula McLain - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness - until... |
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The Chaperone
Laura Moriarty - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.Only a few years before... |
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The Last Runaway
Tracy Chevalier - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this... |
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The Traitor's Wife: A Novel
Allison Pataki - Howard Publishing Co
Format: Book
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A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America's most infamous act of treason...A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America's most infamous... |
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The Aviator's Wife: A Novel
Melanie Benjamin - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. "The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator's... |
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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Jennifer Chiaverini - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the extraordinary friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who won her freedom by the skill of her needle, and the friendship of the First Lady by her devotion. In Mrs. Lincoln's... |
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
Alison Weir - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir's enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. It is the story... |
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Mistress of the Art of Death
Ariana Franklin - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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Sent to medieval Cambridge in order to exonerate a group of Jewish prisoners with financial ties to King Henry I, University of Salerno medical examiner Adelia and a group of companions struggle to avoid being accused of witchcraft and discover that the killer may be a former crusader.... |
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Her Highness, the Traitor
Susan Higginbotham - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback
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Praise for Susan Higginbotham's Novels "Susan Higginbotham transports her readers into a vividly portrayed past." -- Helen Hollick, author of The Pendragon's Banner trilogy A daughter can be a dangerous weapon in the battle for the throne of England Frances Grey harbored no dream... |
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Peony in Love: A Novel
Lisa See - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret."For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent... |
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In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel
Sarah Dunant - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.Thus... |
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The Sheen on the Silk: A Novel
Anne Perry - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry, the undisputed Queen of Victorian mysteries and the author of an acclaimed series set during World War I, now broadens her canvas with her first major stand-alone book - an epic historical novel set in thirteenth-century Constantinople,... |
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The Widow of the South
Robert Hicks - Warner Books
Format: Hardcover
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Reminiscent of Cold Mountain and Enemy Women, this is a gripping novel based on the incredible true story of a woman whose life was changed forever by the Civil War.In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman, an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company...along with the almost... |
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