Stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself. The "Great March" in E. L. Doctorow's hands becomes something more a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.
The Widow of The South by
Robert Hicks
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: 1 Sep 2006 Publication information
A brilliant debut novel that captures the end of an era, the vast madness of war, and the courage of a remarkable woman to claim life from the grasp of death itself.
The Constant Princess by
Philippa Gregory
Hardcover: Dec 2005
Paperback: 28 Aug 2006 Publication information
Philippa Gregory brings to life one of history's most inspiring women and creates one of the most compelling characters in historical fiction - Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England.
Pardonable Lies by
Jacqueline Winspear
Hardcover: Aug 2005
Paperback: 27 Jun 2006 Publication information
In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death
Beneath a Marble Sky by
John Shors
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 6 Jun 2006 Publication information
Shors recreates an historical Hindustan brimming with breathtaking intrigue and containing the secret truth of the Taj Mahal for a world still in awe of its enduring majesty.
Breath and Bones
: A Novel
by
Susann Cokal
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 15 May 2006 Publication information
A romp through the late 19th century chronicling the adventures - sexual and otherwise - of its beautiful heroine, Famke, from her childhood in a Copenhagen orphanage to her strange adventures in the American Wild West.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
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