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- Bess Aldrich. A Lantern in Her Hand
- A classic novel of Nebraskan pioneer life.
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- Rita Mae Brown. High Hearts
- Horsewoman Geneva Chatfield dresses as a young man and follows her husband into the Civil War, joining the Confederate forces.
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- Cindy Bonner. Looking After Lily
- During the late 1800s in Texas, while her husband is in jail, 16 year-old Lily finds herself pregnant and under the temporary care of her rather rascally brother-in-law.
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- Barbara Chase-Riboud. The President's Daughter
- The turbulent life of Harriet Hemmings, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemmings.
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- Tracy Chevalier. Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Vermeer’s housemaid, Griet, becomes the subject of one of his most famous paintings, and is forever changed by the experience.
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- Gay Courter. The Midwife's Advice
- Although her own marriage is unraveling, Bellvue Hospital midwife Hannah Sokolow counsels others on psychological and sexual marital issues. Set in New York circa 1913 – 1922.
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- Donna Cross. Pope Joan
- During the Dark Ages, a woman takes the identity of her dead brother and enters the monastery, eventually ascending to the Papal throne.
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- Philippa Gregory. The Other Boleyn Girl
- Two sisters compete for the love of King Henry VIII.
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- Cecilia Holland. Pacific Street
- During San Francisco’s Gold Rush days, escaped slave Frances Hardheart opens a saloon.
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- Rosalind Laker. The Sugar Pavilion
- In 1793, French exile Sophie Delcourt chooses the fashionable beach resort town of Brighton, England as her new home, where she works hard to establish a confectionary business and attracts the romantic attention of two very different men.
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- Colleen McCullough. Ladies of Missalonghi
- The Cinderella story of a genteel, threadbare spinster’s transformation into an emboldened modern woman. Set in small town Australia in the early 1900s.
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- Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind
- America’s beloved Civil War classic starring the temperamental and wily southern belle, Scarlett O’Hara.
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- Marge Piercy. Gone to Soldiers
- A sprawling novel of World War II, unusual in its focus on women’s stories. Set both in Europe and America.
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- Jean Plaidy. William's Wife
- At age 15, England’s Princess Mary enters into a political marriage with the Dutch prince William of Orange, thereby saving her country from Catholic rule. See other titles in this series, Queens of England.
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- Jane Smiley. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
- Abolitionist Lidie Newton’s quest to find her husband’s murderer. Set in pre-Civil War Kansas.
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- Margaret Walker. Jubilee
- Based on oral history, this classic novel portrays the life of a mulatto woman, Vyry, before, during and after the Civil War.
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