Stephanie Dray
Becoming Madam Secretary
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Frances Perkins, a woman with a remarkable life and career, became the first female Secretary of Labor in 1933 when appointed by President-elect Franklin ...Read Review
The Women of Chateau Lafayette
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This ambitious saga follows three distinctive women across 150 years and four different wars: the American and French Revolutions and World Wars I and ...Read Review
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women
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Women are central in our visual imagination of the French Revolution – from the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette to Charlotte Corday, who stabbed the ...Read Review
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler
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Hamilton, the smash Broadway musical, was the authors’ inspiration for this sweeping novel about Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. The writing ...Read Review
America’s First Daughter
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On her deathbed, the mother of Martha “Patsy” Jefferson asks her to take care of her father, Thomas, and makes him promise never ...Read Review
A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii
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I was suspicious of this book when I first picked it up; with six writers boldly credited on the cover my initial thoughts ...Read Review
Daughters of the Nile
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This final volume of the Cleopatra’s Daughter trilogy continues the story of the life of Selene, beginning in the year 19 BC. She ...Read Review
Song of the Nile: A Novel of Cleopatra’s Daughter
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As daughter of the legendary Queen Cleopatra, Cleopatra Selene has an impressive legacy behind her. In the second novel in Dray’s projected ...Read Review
Lily of the Nile
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After unwittingly helping her mother commit suicide, Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony, is taken from her homeland ...Read Review