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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Scotland, 1567. A pregnant Mary, Queen of Scots is dragged out of her palace by rebel lords and imprisoned in the isolated Lochleven Castle, an ancient fortress surrounded by a vast lake. Her infant son and heir, James, has been captured by her enemies. Accompanying Mary are two inconspicuous serving women: observant, ambitious Jane and romantic, quick-tempered Cuckoo, who endeavor to keep their mercurial mistress company while sharing the space of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe.
One woman was recognized as the premiere singer of her era with perfect pitch and tireless ambition.
One woman was the most glamorous star in
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Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From her adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectation, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won celebrity as a battlefield...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Despite Queen Victoria's dire warnings, princesses Alix and Ella fall in love with Russia and the Romanovs as Ella weds the tsar's brother and Alix marries the heir apparent to the Russian throne, leading to tragic consequences for themselves, their families and for millions in Russia and around the world.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Rome, 77 B.C. Senator Dolabella, known for using violence against anyone who opposes him, is going on trial for corruption and has already hired the best lawyers and even bought the jury. No man dares accept the role of prosecutor - until, against all odds, an unknown twenty-three-year-old steps out to lead the case, defend the people of Rome, and defy the power of the elite class. This lawyer's name is Caius Julius Caesar. Masterfully combining exhaustive...
Author
Publisher
Walrus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
As Margot Desouche, the matriarch of a powerful St. Louis family, succumbs to cancer, she takes a keen interest in her hospice nurse, Lee Bridger, much to the consternation of her children. Lee is drawn to Margot, too, but between her boyfriend who keeps trying to "save" St. Louis, the journalist who literally washes up on the city's levee, and her daughter, a some-time actress and full-time con artist, Lee has her own troubles. Steven Clark paints...
Author
Publisher
Devorah Shafrir Keret
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
One woman's search for answers unfurls into a riveting multi-layered family saga, perfect for readers of Jean Grainger and Soraya Lane. Winter, 1941: Watching the smoke rise over the burning synagogue of the Riga Ghetto, Johanna Friedman's only concern is keeping her family safe. As she prepares to leave her home, clutching what little possessions she is allowed to carry, her thoughts meander to a simpler time before the war - and a secret name,...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Auschwitz, 1942: Her entire body trembles as she stands in the infirmary and realises the horrifying truth. She's a nurse, but instead of saving her fellow inmates, she's about to be ordered to kill them ... Surrounded by thick fog from the nearby forest, Orli stumbles from the cattle truck onto the frostbitten grounds of Auschwitz. Betrayed by her own husband for being a German resistance fighter, she has no one left in the world, and this is now...
