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A Novel
by Kathleen Kent
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Published Sep 2017
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Published Jul 2017
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by Hannah Kent
Published Apr 2014
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by Melanie Benjamin
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsIn 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.
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 Kieran Shields
Published Feb 2013
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by Hillary Jordan
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by Anna Lawrence Pietroni
Published May 2011
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Daughters of the Witching Hill
by Mary Sharratt
Published Jan 2011
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by Katherine Howe
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsA spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history - the Salem witch trials.
by Erika Mailman
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsIt is 1507. A friar arrives in Tierkinddorf, a remote German village nestled deeply in the woods. The village has been suffering a famine, but the friar promises he will identify the guilty woman - the witch - who has brought Gods anger upon the town; she will be burned, and bounty will be restored. But how quickly can she be found?
by Amy Bloom
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsWhen her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New Yorks Lower East Side, to Seattles Jazz District, and up to...
by Anita Amirrezvani
Published May 2008
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by Philippa Gregory
Published Aug 2007
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by Sarah Dunant
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsA story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship that paints a portrait of one of the world's greatest cities, Renaissance Venice, at its most potent moment in history.
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