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Mistress of the Art of Death

by Ariana Franklin

Published: 2007-02-06

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jew...

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Mistress of the Revolution

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A singular new voice in historical fiction. A time of decadence in a country embroiled in revolution. An unforgettably high-spirited heroine. Set in opulent, decadent, turbulent revolutionary France, Mistress of the Revolution is the story of Gabrielle de Montserrat. An impoverished nob...

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Mistress of the Revolution: A Novel

by Catherine Delors

Published: 2009-03-03

Paperback: 528 pages

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In 1815 England, an exiled Frenchwoman, Gabrielle de Monserrat, begins a memoir of her days before and during the French Revolution. Gabrielle, the youngest daughter of a family of the impoverished nobility, recalls her journey through hardships and betrayals. A widow at seventeen with a young daughter,...

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Mistress of the Sun: A Novel

by Sandra Gulland

Published: 2008-06-03

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Valli�re, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King...

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Mistress of the Vatican LP: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

by Eleanor Herman

Published: 2008-09-01

Paperback: 736 pages

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"We have just elected a female pope." ?Cardinal Alessandro Bichi, 1644 Today's Roman Catholic Church firmly states that women must be excluded from church leadership positions, but they neglect to mention that for over a decade in the seventeenth century a woman unofficially, but ope...

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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope (P.S.)

by Eleanor Herman

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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Born without a dowry, nearly forced into a convent, and later married off to a man she didn't love, Olimpia Maidalchini vowed never to be poor, powerless, or beholden to any man again. Instead, using her wits, Olimpia became the unofficial ruler of the most powerful institution in the wor...

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Mistress Shakespeare

by Karen Harper

Published: 2009-02-05

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A delicious and intriguing historical novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare's secret wife? by New York Times?bestselling author, Karen Harper. In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her great love, Wi...

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Mistresss Revenge

by Tamar Cohen

Published: 2011-06-23

Paperback: 352 pages

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There's a fine line between love and hate.   For five years, Sally and Clive have been lost in a passionate affair. Now he has dumped her to devote himself to his wife and family, and Sally is left in freefall. It starts with a casual stroll past his house, and popping into the brasserie ...

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The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir

by A. M. Homes

Published: 2007-04-05

Hardcover: 256 pages

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An acclaimed novelist's riveting memoir about what it means to be adopted and how all of us construct our sense of self and family Before A.M. Homes was born, she was put up for adoption. Her birth mother was a twenty-two- year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older m...

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MISTS OF AVALON

by MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

Published: 2001

Paperback: 0 pages

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A Literary Guild Featured AlternateHere is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time...