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The Seamstress of Sardinia
by Bianca Pitzorno
In 1900 Sardinia, an intelligent and ambitious young woman with an impossible dream--to become the seamstress for a wealthy family--is drawn into a world far different than her own where she observes the town's residents, who are not quite what they pretend to be.
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Beyond That, the Sea
by Laura Spence-Ash
A young girl is sent from London to live in America during World War II and fits in so seamlessly with her new family that she is hesitant to return to post-war England when she is called home.
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The Perishing
by Natashia Deâon
During Prohibition, Lou, the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Timesand possibly immortal, must recover the memory of her past and make sense of the jumble of lifetimes calling to her, just as new forces rise to threaten the existence of those around her.
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Essex Dogs
by Dan Jones
A group of unruly archers and men-at-arms land on the beaches of Normandy in 1346 to fight for the throne in the fiction debut of the best-selling New York Times historian behind Powers and Thrones.
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On a Night of a Thousand Stars
by Andrea Yaryura Clark
After hearing a woman's cryptic comments to her wealthy diplomat father at their annual summer soiree, Paloma becomes curious about his past, setting in motion a chain of events that cause her to question her family and identity, but also puts her life in danger.
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Defending Britta Stein
by Ronald H. Balson
A husband and wife team of lawyers take on opposing sides in a defamation case against a local Danish American war hero and a protestor in the latest addition to the series following The Girl from Berlin.
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The Lion: A Novel of Ancient Athens
by Conn Iggulden
Enter Pericles--the Lion of Athens. Behind him lies the greatest city of the ancient world. Before him stands the ferocious Persian army. Both sides are spoiling for war. But Pericles knows one thing: to fight a war you must first win the peace. It's time for a hero to rise. For his enemies to tremble. And for a city to shine like a beacon...
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Jewel of the Nile
by Tessa Afshar
Whispered secrets about her parents' past take on new urgency for Chariline as she pays one last visit to the land of her forefathers, the ancient kingdom of Cush. Raised as an orphan by her aunt, Chariline has only been told a few pieces of her parents' tragic love story. Her beautiful dark skin is proof that her father was Cushite, but she knows nothing else. While visiting her grandfather before his retirement as the Roman official in the queen's court, Chariline overhears that her father is still alive, and discovering his identity becomes her obsession. Both her grandfather and the queen have reasons for keeping this secret, however, and forbid her quest. So when her only clues lead to Rome, Chariline sneaks on the ship of a merchant trusted by friends. Theo is shocked to discover a stowaway on board his vessel and determines to be rid of her as soon as possible. But drawn in by Chariline's story, he feels honor-bound to see her safely to shore, especially when it appears someone may be willing to kill for the truth she seeks. In this transformative tale of historical fiction, bestselling author Tessa Afshar brings to life the kingdom of Cush and the Roman Empire, introducing readers to a fascinating world filled with gripping adventure, touching romance, and a host of lovable characters-including some they may recognize from the biblical book of Acts.
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Act of Oblivion
by Robert Harris
Follows General Edward Whalleys and his son-in law Colonel William Goffes flight to America in 1660 after their involvement in the beheading of King Charles I, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Fatherland.
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A Thousand Steps
by T. Jefferson Parker
A teenager with a stoner mom and a deadbeat dad searches for his missing sister who police have written off as just another runaway hippie chick during the summer of 1968 in Laguna Beach, California.
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Evening Hero
by Marie G. Lee
When the rural Minnesota hospital where he is a practicing obstetrician closes, a Korean immigrant confronts the life he built after the war and the assumptions he made about the so-called American Dream.
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Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of Americas most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
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The Apollo Murders
by Chris Hadfield
In the year 1973, NASA launches Apollo 18, a space mission which has been tasked with stopping a secret Soviet space station which has been spying on America.
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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
by Heather B. Moore
Based on true events, follows the story of one of many young, Chinese women who traveled to 19th century San Francisco for an arranged marriage, but were sold into prostitution, and the pioneering advocate who helped them.
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The Dickens Boy
by Thomas Keneally
The son of Englands most famous author, Edward Dickens, is sent to Australia to make something of himselfor at least fall out of the public eyewhere he works hard to prove to his parents and himself that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness.
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Moon and the Mars
by Kia Corthron
Set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, this novel is told through the eyes of Theo, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents, as the nation divides and marches to war.
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The Living and the Lost
by Ellen Feldman
Living and working in a bombed-out Berlin, Millie Mosbach must come to terms with a past decision made in a moment of crisis with the help of a mysterious man who is surprisingly understanding of her demons.
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Booth
by Karen Joy Fowler
Describes the multiple scandals, family triumphs and disasters that took their toll on the 10 children of celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Booth as the North and the South reached a boiling point and the Civil War broke out.
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The Woman with the Blue Star
by Pam Jenoff
Inspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.
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The Girl in his Shadow
by Audrey Blake
When Dr. Croft takes in orphan Eleanor Beady, he doesn't realize that he's gained an apprentice. Raised amidst Croft's experiments, "Nora" becomes his most trusted assistant-an unthinkable and unlawful pursuit for a woman. Nora helps Croft's groundbreaking research and his clinic gain recognition, and she finds she doesn't mind working in the background, as long as she can continue to hone her skills. But the arrival of a new surgical resident threatens to undo all that Nora has strived for. Dr. Daniel Gibson is too proper to be trusted, too skilled to dismiss, and too smart to be fooled for long. He expects Nora to change her clothes before dinner and spend her evenings perfecting her needlework, not her sutures. Though Nora knows it's best not to reveal her expansive knowledge of human anatomy, she isn't going to give up the work that fascinates and fulfills her-no matter what it costs her.
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The Godmothers
by Camille Aubray
Godmothers to one another’s children, four women, who married into a prosperous Italian family, must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
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The Magician
by Colm Tóibín
An intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of writer Thomas Mann, a man profoundly flawed and unforgettable, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived—the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile.
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A Most Clever Girl
by Stephanie Thornton
Contending with the recent deaths of her mother and President Kennedy, a young woman seeks information about the shocking family mystery she just uncovered from someone who turns out to be a Cold War double agent.
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Tenderness
by Alison MacLeod
A Booker Prize-longlisted author brilliantly recreates the origins of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and boldly reimagines its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer.
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Everyman
by M. Shelly Conner
Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972 looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life. A mother named Mercy. A mother who for all of Eve's twenty-two years has been a mystery and a quest. Eve's search for her mother, and the father she never knew, is a mission to discover her identity, her name, her people, and her home. Eve's questions and longing launch a multigenerational story that sprawls back to the turn of the twentieth century, settles into the soil of the South, the blood and souls of Black folk making love and life and fleeing in a Great Migration into the savage embrace of the North. Eve is a young woman coming of age in Chicago against the backdrop of the twin fires and fury of the civil rights and Black Power movements-atime when everything and everyone, it seems, longs to be made anew. At the core of this story are the various meanings of love-how we love and, most of all, whom we love.
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Love and Fury
by Samantha Silva
In August of 1797, as her midwife struggles to keep her and her fragile daughter alive, Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of famous novelist Mary Shelley, recounts the life she dared to live amidst the impossible constraints and prejudices of the late 18th century.
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Book of the Little Axe
by Lauren Francis-Sharma
Quietly but purposefully rebelling against the life others expect of her in late-18th-century Trinidad, Rosa loses her family's farm when her homeland transitions to British rule, before her half-Crow son finds his coming-of-age challenged by decades-old secrets.
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Dust off the Bones
by Paul Howarth
After their family’s cattle farm is attacked in the 1890s Australian Outback, two estranged brothers reunite to attempt to revive the business and are called to testify after a reprisal slaughter is perpetrated against the Kurrong.
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The King at the Edge of the World
by Arthur Phillips
When Queen Elizabeth I is dying, her spymasters recruit Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician, for the task of discovering if her possible successor, King James VI of Scotland, is truly a Protestant or secretly shares his family's Catholicism.
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Wild Women and the Blues
by Denny S. Bryce
In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper’s daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later.
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The Great Mistake
by Jonathan Lee
Investigating the mysterious murder of 83-year-old Andrew Haswell Green at the turn of the 20th century, a New York City detective meets an unforgettable cast of characters as he tries to solve the case of this private and influential man who, in death, has become infamous.
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The City of Tears
by Kate Mosse
A continuation of the story that began with The Burning Chambers is set in Paris, London and Amsterdam and follows the failed efforts of a royal marriage to end a decade-long religious conflict.
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The Girl from the Channel Islands
by Jenny Lecoat
After fleeing Vienna, a Jewish woman living in the British Channel Islands is forced to hide in plain site during the German occupation and to survive must depend on her own courage, her community and a soldier she befriends.
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The Diplomat's Wife
by Pam Jenoff
Surviving a Nazi concentration camp before her child’s father dies in a plane crash, Marta marries a kind diplomat only to have her fleeting happiness sabotaged by the activities of a communist mole in British intelligence.
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The Kitchen Front
by Jennifer Ryan
An indebted young widow, a freedom-seeking kitchen maid, the wife of a wealthy but unkind man and a trained chef navigating sexism compete for a once-in-a-lifetime spot hosting a BBC cooking program during World War II.
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Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia
The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties.
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Ribbons of Scarlet
by Kate Quinn
Six best-selling and award-winning authors trace the events of the French Revolution through the experiences of six remarkable women from different walks of life, including an equal-rights education advocate whose student leads a women’s march to Versailles.
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The Woman of a Thousand Names
by Alexandra Lapierre
From the internationally best-selling author of Between Love and Honor comes a tale based on the true story of the Mata Hari of Russia, featuring a beautiful aristocrat fighting for survival during the deadly Russian Revolution.
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Annelies
by David R Gillham
An empowering reimagining of Anne Frank as a Holocaust survivor traces her endurance of terrible losses, her struggles to forgive and her development into a highly skilled writer.
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Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team
by Elise Hooper
This novel explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women's Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. It is a chronicle of three athletes who defied society's expectations of what women could achieve.
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The Nesting Dolls
by Alina Adams
Spanning 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a family saga finds three generations of women in a Jewish-Russian family making fateful choices in their respective efforts to break free from historical dynamics and pursue personal fulfillment.
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Hades, Argentina
by Daniel Loedel
A medical student in Buenos Aires must decide how far he’s willing to go for his childhood crush and the group of insurgents she’s joined as more and more people like her are disappeared by an oppressive military junta.
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The Innocents
by Michael Crummey
Two orphans forage for survival on an isolated Newfoundland cove during years marked by storms and ravaging illness, before the mystery of their nature tests the limits of their bond.
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The Murmur of Bees
by Sofía Segovia
When an old woman returns from an unexpected absence with an unusual infant and a swarm of bees, and insists on keeping both, her family adopts the child, and Simonopio grows up surrounded by bees and brings change to the entire region.
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Stories from Suffragette City
by M. J. Rose
Featuring contributions by such authors as Paula McLain and Jamie Ford, an anthology set during the Fifth Avenue women’s suffrage march of October 1915 includes depictions of leading rights advocates, from Ava Vanderbilt to Ida B. Welles.
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All the Ways we Said Goodbye
by Beatriz Williams
An heiress, a Resistance fighter and a widow find their lives intertwined by their wartime experiences and the turbulent 1960s when they seek refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel.
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Sold on a Monday
by Kristina McMorris
When struggling reporter Ellis Reed takes a photograph of a sign advertising two children for sale in 1931, it leads to his big break and evokes memories from his past.
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The Sun Sister: Electra's Story
by Lucinda Riley
Still reeling from her father's death a famous model grieves through drugs and alcohol until she receives a shocking letter from a stranger claiming to be her grandmother, in a follow up to The Moon Sister.
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Three Hours in Paris
by Cara Black
A suspenseful historical tale based on the mystery of Hitler’s abrupt departure from newly occupied 1940 Paris follows the mission of a British intelligence markswoman who, while trying to assassinate the Führer, discovers that she has been set up.
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Cilka's Journey
by Heather Morris
Russian sixteen-year-old Cilka is forced by a concentration-camp commandant to become his lover and subsquently sent to a Siberian prison camp after being found guilty of collaborating with the enemy.
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An Elegant Woman
by Martha McPhee
A meditation on memory, history, and legacy — and an exploration of the stories we tell ourselves and what we leave out — follows four generations of women in one American family.
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Run Me to Earth
by Paul Yoon
Three children orphaned in 1960s Laos meet a dedicated doctor who enlists them as motorcycle couriers in his effort to rescue civilians and find medical supplies in a novel from the award-winning author of Snow Hunters.
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Tyll
by Daniel Kehlmann
A vagabond and trickster from the 17th century embarks on a journey of discovery as he travels through history in the new novel of magical realism from the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri
A beekeeper and his artist wife have their lives upended and must flee after war destroys their home in Aleppo, Syria, and they set off on a dangerous journey through Turkey and Greece, towards an uncertain future in England.
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The Body Outside the Kremlin
by James L May
Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions.
With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence, hopes an acquaintance he's been cultivating will lead to a less brutal work assignment, maybe even a little more bread in his ration. Knowing Gennady Antonov holds a privileged position restoring the monks' seized collection of icons ought to improve Tolya’s odds of reassignment. But when Antonov's body is discovered floating frozen in the bay, their connection turns dangerous. At first the authorities question Tolya, but then he’s mystified when they assign him to assist the elderly detective investigating the case—but better to find the real killer than have the murder pinned on him. Digging into Antonov's secrets turns up strange expropriations of the museum's icons, rumors of an escape conspiracy among White Army officers, and an illicit affair with a female prisoner who won't tell all she knows. To avoid becoming the murderer's next victim, Tolya must defy Solovetsky's unforgiving regime and make ruthless use of his fellow prisoners. Putting his story to paper at last means reckoning the true cost of his survival.
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The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era women and how it connects to her own students’ lives in this latest from the New York Times best-selling author of Before We Were Yours.
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Country
by Michael Hughes
A suspenseful reimagining of Homer’s Iliad is set in 1996 Northern Ireland and follows the experiences of an IRA fighter whose efforts to reignite the war against the British are complicated by a vengeful sniper’s defection.
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The Evening and the Morning
by Ken Follett
A prequel to the best-selling The Pillars of the Earth follows the experiences of a young boatbuilder, a scholarly monk and a Norman noblewoman against a backdrop of the Viking attacks at the end of the 10th century in England.
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The First Actress
by C. W. Gortner
A historical tale inspired by the life of French actress Sarah Bernhardt traces the rise of a courtesan's daughter whose rebellious style and refusal to give up her child lead her to become the most acclaimed performer of her time.
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
The ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires.
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Nottingham
by Nathan Makaryk
A complex retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is set in 12th-century England, where anarchy stemming from the king’s absence and sheriff’s indifference turns six people from different walks of life into icons.
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The Shadow King
by Maaza Mengiste
Tending the wounded when her nation is invaded by Mussolini, an orphaned servant in 1935 Ethiopia helps disguise a gentle peasant as their exiled emperor to rally her fellow women in the fight against fascism.
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Today We Go Home
by Kelli Estes
Struggling to heal from a devastating loss while serving in Afghanistan, Larkin Bennett finds the diary of a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union during the Civil War and begins to heal.
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