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1) Victoria
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In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria, sheltered, small in stature, and female, became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Many thought it was preposterous: Alexandrina, Drina to her family, had always been tightly controlled by her mother and her household, and was surely too unprepossessing to hold the throne. Yet from the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first...
2) The widows
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Kinship, Ohio, 1924: When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel Ross, the town's widely respected sheriff, is killed while transporting a prisoner, she is devastated and vows to avenge his death. Hours after his funeral, a stranger appears at her door. Marvena Whitcomb, a coal miner's widow, is unaware that Daniel has died, and begs to speak with him about her missing daughter. From miles away but worlds apart, Lily and Marvena's lives collide...
3) Young Philby
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When Kim Philby fled to Moscow in 1963, he became the most notorious double agent in history. A British intelligence agent since World War II, he had risen to become their chief officer in Washington. Exposure of other double agents led to the revelation that Philby had been working for Russia longer than he had been part of MI6. Now Robert Littell recounts the early years of this fascinating, flawed man who kept people guessing until the very end....
4) The removes
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As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of the wild west in The Removes, a historical novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Tatjana Soli. Spanning the years of the first great settlement of the West, The Removes tells the intertwining stories of fifteen-year-old Anne Cummins, frontierswoman...
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The Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in eighteenth-century Russia. Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and...
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[2023]
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A novel set in the French royal court of Catherine de' Medici during the Renaissance follows Pedro Gonzales, an unusual young man who, delivered by a slave broker into France's royal court, becomes the favorite of the queen who is determined to find him a bride.