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Wilde Child: Wildes of Lindow Castle
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1784. Lady Joan Wilde, daughter of the Duke of Lindow, is considered scandalous, not only because she is illegitimate, but because she defies social ...Read Review
The Tsarina’s Daughter
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The Tsarina’s Daughter is Kenyan-born, London-based Ellen Alpsten’s second historical novel and is part of a trilogy about the Russian aristocracy ...Read Review
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s claim to fame is that she was the first mother in England to have a child ‘engrafted’ against ...Read Review
Brontë
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In this graphic novel, Santoni, an illustrator and comic artist, brings the lives and achievements of the 19th-century Brontë sisters to adolescents ages 13 ...Read Review
The Words We Whisper
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Zara, a hospice nurse, returns to the home of the Italian grandmother who helped raise her and her older half-sister. Zara’s skills ...Read Review
City of Dark Corners
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1933: Eugene Hammons departed the Phoenix police force under a dark cloud. Now he searches for missing persons as a P.I. One night ...Read Review
Those I Have Lost
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After an idyllic childhood in Madras, Rosie is uprooted at age ten when her Amma dies, leaving her Pa, a reclusive academic, completely ...Read Review
The Glorious Guinness Girls
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Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh are the glorious Guinness girls, members of the dynastic brewing family, and part of the Bright Young Things, a ...Read Review
A Marriage Made In Secret
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In 1325, as a favour to her loyal but impoverished father, dowry-less Matilde becomes lady-in-waiting to Edward II’s queen, Isabella. The Queen is ...Read Review
Pillars of Barabbas (The Barabbas Trilogy)
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I’m sure readers of the Bible sometimes wonder what happened next. Was that prophecy fulfilled? Did that tax collector or that prostitute ...Read Review
