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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Deadly descent Deadly descent Charlotte Hinger When false accusations threaten senatorial candidate Hadley's career, secrets whispered to Lottie as editor of the county history books spur a personal search for his aunt's murderer. Will the cold c… OL15631610W
Follow My Lead Follow My Lead Kate Noble Jason Cummings, Duke of Rayne is feeling the weight of his responsibilities - one of which is to get married. Being the most sought after bachelor in London can be trying, so who can blame him if he … OL15671422W
Novel histories Novel histories Lisa Kasmer Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape b… OL16298907W
The truth of all things The truth of all things Kieran Shields Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with w… OL16634707W
His Montana sweetheart His Montana sweetheart Ruth Logan Herne Olivia Franklin suspected coming home to Jasper Gulch would mean eventually running into her first love, Jack McGuire. But she is adamant that she not repeat the mistakes that led to her broken heart… OL17715716W
The secret daughter of the tsar The secret daughter of the tsar Jennifer Laam "A compelling alternate history of the Romanov family in which a secret fifth daughter--smuggled out of Russia before the revolution--continues the royal lineage to dramatic consequences. In her rive… OL17862776W
The wonder chamber The wonder chamber Mary Malloy "Praise for Mary Malloy's The Wandering Heart:"An impressive fiction debut. Malloy mixes history and fantasy with flair and delivers a wonderfully satisfying puzzler."--Publishers Weekly"Mystery a la… OL17871404W
Hidden heritage Hidden heritage Charlotte Hinger "After a gruesome killing at the Carlton County, Kansas, livestock feedyard, Sheriff Sam Abbot, Undersheriff Lottie Albright, and her ranching husband deputy know their resources are over-stretched. … OL17873824W
His Montana sweetheart His Montana sweetheart Ruth Logan Herne Olivia Franklin suspected coming home to Jasper Gulch would mean eventually running into her first love, Jack McGuire. But she is adamant that she not repeat the mistakes that led to her broken heart… OL24269582W
The sanctuary The sanctuary Raymond Khoury Portugal, 1705. In the dungeons of a Templar castle, a dying old man bequeaths an ancient, half-burnt book to his young inquisitor. Keeping one step ahead of those who would kill to wrench the book's… OL24296704W
Fireweed Fireweed Gerda Lerner "In Fireweed, Gerda Lerner, a pioneer and leading scholar in Women's History, tells her story of moral courage and commitment to social change with a novelist's skill and a historian's command of con… OL2732709W
Madame Aurora Madame Aurora Sarah Aldridge "Elizabeth Beaufort: beautiful, impoverished scholar who has eked out a living as a teacher until deafness and a scandal over a book about love intervene. Her lover, Hannah Morgan: ex-Army nurse and … OL2779634W
Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance Mary Spongberg "This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has … OL3273146W
Historia Secreta del Clavel Carmesi / The Secret History of the Pink Carnation Historia Secreta del Clavel Carmesi / The Secret History of the Pink Carnation Lauren Willig Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she's always the one thrown into some stranger's lap. Plus, she's had… OL5717731W
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose The Seduction of the Crimson Rose Lauren Willig "Pride and Prejudice lives on," (USA Today) "a fun and zany time warp," (New York Daily News) "history textbook meets Bridget Jones" (Marie Claire): Readers and reviewers alike praise Lauren Willig's… OL5717733W
Sashenka Sashenka Simon Sebag-Montefiore "It is over twenty years since beautiful, headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin slipped away from her family home to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and intrigue. Now she is married to a rich a… OL6032310W
My name is Polly Winter My name is Polly Winter Veronica Black When historical researcher Jessica Cameron takes a room at The Cedars to study mid-nineteenth-century domestic life, she hardly expects to encounter much excitement. But as soon as she settles in, su… OL604011W
Promise of a dream Promise of a dream Sheila Rowbotham "At the beginning of the decade Rowbotham was a rebellious sixteen-year-old at a Methodist boarding school in the north-east of England, reading Sartre and dreaming of Paris. By the end of the sixtie… OL810560W