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Passionate Minds
Emilie du Châtelet’s brilliant mind is nurtured by her elderly father, a rarity for a female in early 18th century…
The Secret Magdalene
Mariamne and her father’s ward, Salome, are raised in wealthy comfort in Roman Jerusalem. Her father is a member of…
Dark Angels
Through a Glass Darkly was a book that lingered in the memory: a lush historical setting, carefully created characters, riveting…
Thunderstruck
Larson (of Devil in the White City fame) again uses his trademark dual storylines to chronicle Guglielmo Marconi and the…
Lilah
Lilah loves Antinoes, the famous Persian warrior, but will not marry him without the consent of her brother, Ezra. Ezra,…
The Forest
Edward Rutherfurd has given us the pageantry of Sarum, the teeming life of London and the vast exotic sweep of…
Molly
Friendship and families both provoke powerful emotions, particularly for women. Molly, the debut novel by Nancy J. Jones, explores how…
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