Ballantine Books

Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors (England’s Medieval Queens)

By Alison Weir - Published 2020

Genres:

Nonfiction

Weir’s latest non-fiction offering covers the lives of five English medieval queens, from the best-known Eleanor of Aquitaine, through to another Eleanor, ...Read Review

A Question of Betrayal: An Elena Standish Novel

By Anne Perry - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Not long after her happenstance introduction into espionage, British photographer Elena Standish is asked by MI6 to find former lover Aiden Strother. Though ...Read Review

A Christmas Resolution: A Novel

By Anne Perry - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1872 London. Newly married Celia Hooper is concerned when she learns that her good friend Clementine Appleby has accepted the marriage proposal of Seth ...Read Review

All the Flowers in Paris: A Novel

By Sarah Jio - Published 2019

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It’s 2009, and Caroline has just come face-to-face with a man from her past – a past she’s been running from. In her ...Read Review

To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By Jeff Shaara - Published 2020

Genres:

Military

With no job prospects in Depression-era Palatka, Florida, 19-year-old Tommy Biggs joins the Navy, becomes a hospital apprentice, and is posted to the ...Read Review

The Lost Diary of Venice

By Margaux Deroux - Published 2020

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Margaux DeRoux’s debut novel, The Lost Diary of Venice, weaves together two stories of forbidden love. In contemporary New Haven, William, a ...Read Review

The Book of Lost Friends

By Lisa Wingate - Published 2020

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Hannie Gossett is an eighteen-year old freed slave. In 1875 she finds herself caught up in the affairs of the Gossett family, on whose ...Read Review

The Words I Never Wrote

By Jane Thynne - Published 2020

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In her latest venture into historical fiction, author Jane Thynne turns her attention to two socialite sisters on opposite sides in World War ...Read Review

The First Actress: A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt

By C.W. Gortner - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

“I saw myself at Hugo’s side, the daughter of a courtesan, whom no one save my dear Dumas had believed would amount ...Read Review

Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen (UK) / Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen (US)

By Alison Weir - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This is a superb novel about a young queen who was the victim of powerful and ambitious persons around her. Neglected by her ...Read Review