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Published Feb 2022
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by Marie Benedict
Published Jul 2020
Read ReviewsNew from Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill.
by Melanie Benjamin
Published Jan 2019
Read ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife, a fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends - screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.
by Laurie Notaro
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsSoar back to the fearless 1920s with #1 New York Times bestselling writer Laurie Notaro - beloved author of The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club - in a stunning historical novel that tells the true, little-known story of three aviatrixes in a race to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
by Louisa Thomas
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsAn intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time.
by Elizabeth Church
Published Mar 2017
Read ReviewsIn the spirit of The Aviator's Wife and Loving Frank, this resonant debut spans the years from World War II through the Vietnam War to tell the story of a woman whose scientific ambition is caught up in her relationships with two very different men.
by Mary Doria Russell
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsA richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel which continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
by John F. Ross
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsThe sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace.
by Lawrence Goldstone
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsA thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation.
by Nancy Horan
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsA much-anticipated second novel which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
by Naomi Wood
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Anne Fowler
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald.
by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsSet at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society." In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other
by Mary Sharratt
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsSkillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt's redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to life one of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages: Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.
by Paula McLain
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsA deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
by Sarita Mandanna
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsTold in rich, lyrical prose and set against the background of a changing society, Tiger Hills is a sweeping saga about one woman's determination to live life on her own terms --- and a riveting novel about the choices we make in the name of family, nation, and love.
by Michelle Moran
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsThe world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire... but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
by C.W. Gortner
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the fairy-tale châteaux of the Loire Valley to the battlefields of the wars of religion to the mob-filled streets of Paris, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is the extraordinary untold journey of one of the most maligned and misunderstood women ever to be queen.
by Kathleen Kent
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsMartha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. The Heretic's Daughter tells her story; a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.
by Nancy Horan
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsAn exceptional first novel based on the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her clandestine love affair with famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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