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Just For You! - Captivating Historical Fiction

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  • A historical novel set in the Caribbean in the 1830s, a woman travels in search of her children after she’s escaped from slavery.
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, 2023. — FICTION SHEARER
  • The First Actress

    a Novel of Sarah Bernhardt

    Gortner, C. W.,
    The enthralling life and times of Sarah Bernhardt, from courtesan to unwed mother to brilliant star of the stage.
    Book, 2020New York : Ballantine Books, [2020] — FICTION GORTNER
  • The true and harrowing story of a Crow native woman who marries a white fur trader in 1800's Montana.
    Book, 2023New York : Atria Books, 2023. — FICTION GRISSOM
  • New York, 1924. Jenny Bell is an up-and-coming artist invited to the prestigious artist colony run by Tiffany & Co. Jenny thinks she has outrun her dark past but someone in the colony apparently knows her secrets and threatens to expose her.
    Book, 2018New York : Atria Books, 2018. — FICTION ROSE
  • In 1492 during the Spanish Inquisition a young man flees Spain for America and settles in New Mexico. In 1992 Miguel takes a babysitting job and notices some cultural similarities in his own family with the Jewish family from New York.
    Book, 2018New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2018] — FICTION MORRIS