Arleigh Johnson
Blood Between Queens
The Thornleigh series continues with this fifth installment in which Richard Thornleigh’s ward, Justine Grenville, is entrusted with a delicate…
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
During the Great Depression, a wealthy family is shattered by a daughter’s indiscretion, and as a result she is sent…
The Doctor and the Rough Rider
Doc Holliday, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, and Geronimo join forces against a host of rival Indian tribes and a supernatural…
Belle Epoque
Editors' choice
Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, daughter of a Breton shopkeeper, has always dreamed of life outside her small village. In a desperate…
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen
University librarian and Austen enthusiast Samantha McDonough happens upon a partial letter in an old poetry book that leaves clues…
The Duchess of Drury Lane
Dorothy Jordan, Drury Lane’s most notable comedic actress, grew up in Ireland where she had few career choices, being the…
The Unfaithful Queen
Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, tells her story in this whimsical reimagining, beginning with her early adolescence in the…
Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan
Going on safari was all the rage among British noblemen in early 20th-century England, but Jane Porter and her father,…
Wicked Pleasures
Praeger & Son banking company in New York City had been successful for many decades thanks to Frederick Praeger III,…
Madame Serpent
The first volume of Jean Plaidy’s Catherine de Medici trilogy, this story begins with her unfortunate childhood as an orphan…
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