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A Midwife's Tale

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community …
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B

by Sandra Gulland

Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. …
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Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor

by Kathryn Lasky

In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in …
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Seeds of Hope

by Kristiana Gregory

A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice …
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