When Alice Bullock's husband joins the Union Army, the young quilting enthusiast is left to deal with an Iowa farm and an imposing mother-in-law. And then her life turns upside down when she's accused of murder.
Historical fiction
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Author:Dallas, SandraSummary: - Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:
To avoid the matchmaking skills of London society, Alistair Cynster--better known as Lucifer--heads for the English countryside to visit an old friend. Upon his arrival, he discovers his friend dead, and he is knocked unconscious by a...
- Author:Goodman, JoSummary:
Although their engagement is just a rumor, East has now intention of marrying Lady Sophie Colley. But when he actually meets her, he is entranced. Now, eager to win her love, he must help her banis old family secrets before he can claim...
- Author:Hitchman, BeatriceSummary:
From an acclaimed and powerful talent in historical fiction, a literary historical novel set in a bohemian enclave of Vienna about love, freedom, and what constitutes a familySet in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, All of You Every Single One...
- Author:Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:
Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s doesn't approve of such innovations as women attending medical school. To leave grief...
- Author:Richardson, C.S.Summary:
A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence. Born in 1916, Henry, thin-as-sticks and...
- Author:Linden, CarolineSummary:
Raised in the splendor of Carlyle Castle, Philippa Kirkpatrick is not eager to wed and leave the only home she's ever known. She takes a liking to the castles new scandalously bold steward, William Montclair.
- Author:Doerr, AnthonySummary:
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES-from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant...
- Author:Doerr, AnthonySummary:
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of...
- Author:Kay, Guy GavrielSummary:
Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature "quarter turn to the fantastic" to...
- Author:Tatlock, AnnSummary:
Award-winning author of A Room of My Own and A Place Called Morning, Ann Tatlock returns with the soul-searching inspirational novel, All the Way Home. Augie Schuler recalls her childhood, dim and depressing except for her one true...
- Author:Jordan, SophieSummary:
Max, Viscount Camden, cannot recall a time when Lady Aurelia didn't vex him. Unfortunately, they are always thrown together. At parties and family gatherings, she's always there. But one night she goes too far, and he...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Teams Up with Kimberley Woodhouse for a Depression-Era Drama Gwyn Hillerman acts as a nurse at her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska. Her family life has been rough ever since her mother,...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, return to their Virginia plantation, but their once-grand home has lost its lustre. Jo's father and brother are dead, and the war has left her remaining...
- Author:Field, RachelSummary:
The heroine, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, governess to the children of the Duc de Praslin, found herself strangely drawn to her employer; when the Duc murdered his wife in the most savage fashion, she had to plead her own case before the...
- Author:Clarke, BrendaSummary:
The Reads are respectable Nonconformist shopkeepers; the Hunnicutts dark and stormy High Church landowners. But love and greed constantly cross the battle lines, adding new disputes to the old hostility.
- Author:Hawley, AlixSummary:
Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him. Debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony, through 2 stints captured by Indians as he attempted to settle Kentucky, the death of 1 son at the...
- Author:Gratz, AlanSummary:
D-Day, June 6, 1944: the most expansive military endeavor in history. No less than world cooperation would bring down Hitler and the Axis powers. And so people--and kids--across the globe lent their part. From the young US soldiers in...
- Author:Rehner, JanSummary:
Almost True is the story of an extraordinary friendship among four women living in a small village in Burgundy during World War II. Madeleine, the eccentric village beauty, is a spinner of stories and dreams. Léa, the doctor's...
- Author:Jenkins, BeverlySummary:
Beautiful and independent, Grace Atwood is escorting a group of brides from Chicago to their prospective husbands in southern Kansas. Fearing the Jim Crow groups who prey on people of color, she decides that traveling by wagon train is...
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