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Just For You! - Historical Fiction with Women of Character

Enjoy great stories about intriguing women with accurate depictions of their times.

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  • Running from personal disappointment, English Quaker Honor Bright finds herself relying on strangers in the alien, untamed landscape of 1850's Ohio. Drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, Honor befriends two exceptional…
    Book, 2013New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2013] — FICTION CHEVALIER
  • Based on the Book of Genesis, Dinah, Jacob's only daughter, shares her perspectives on the origins of many of our modern religious practices and sexual politics, imparting the lessons she has learned from her father's wives
    Book, 2017New York : Picador, St. Martin's Press, [2017] — FICTION DIAMANT
  • Sisters Meredith and Nina, having been estranged from one another and their parents by the actions of their disapproving mother, reunite after their father falls ill. By carrying out their dad's dying wish of hearing the true story of their mother's…
    Book, 2011New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2011]. — FICTION HANNAH
  • Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious…
    Book, 2012New York, NY : Harper, c2012. — FICTION KINGSOLVER
  • Librarian Eva Abrams is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's something she hasn't seen in sixty-five years - a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. It appears to contain some…
    Book, 2020New York : Gallery Books, [2020] — FICTION HARMEL
  • It's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. Manhattan is grittier than ever but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10…
    Book, 2017New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017. — FICTION ROONEY
  • Frannie Langton’s personal history as a slave in Jamaica and her subsequent London life as a servant and confidante in the Burnham household prior to their brutal murder reveals the toll that the inhumanity of her treatment take in this absorbing…
    Book, 2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — FICTION COLLINS
  • In the world of political power brokers, Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
    DVD, 2017[Los Angeles, California] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2017] — DVD M
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