Ballantine Books
A Fortune of Sand
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One expects some level of eccentricity from the ultra-wealthy, yet Marjorie Lennox’s family sits in a class by itself. In 1927, at their ...Read Review
Elizabeth and Marilyn
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Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Baker) met only once, in 1956, and Moylan’s compelling tale relates how this unusual ...Read Review
Death Times Seven: A Daniel Pitt Novel
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Anne Perry is best known for her successful series, the William Monk novels and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, along with a ...Read Review
The Quarter Queen
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Fans of Anne Rice’s vampire novels will love this eventful imagining of the coming-of-age of Marie (“Ree”) Laveau II, the heir to ...Read Review
The Original
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Enigmatic film star Katharine Hepburn was a figure of fascination in her own time: tall, patrician, redheaded, and androgynous, she played fierce, outspoken ...Read Review
Liberty Street
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Liberty Street is a multi-angled investigation into abuse and violence against women: those silenced by misogyny, lies and hypocrisy whom the patriarchy prefers ...Read Review
The Sea Child
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Isabel arrives at the seaside village of Helford in Cornwall. Burdened with her dead husband’s debts and evading gossip about improper behavior, ...Read Review
Cleopatra
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51 BCE, Egypt: two young women bicker amicably as they play a game. One chews a sun-warmed fig, the other’s linen dress ripples ...Read Review
Queens at War
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Kings get a lot of attention and name recognition, but we often don’t remember or even consider the queens who ruled beside (...Read Review
It Girl
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Pataki offers a detailed explanation about why and how she altered the names, and more importantly, the climactic outcome of the famous “Crime ...Read Review
