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Don't Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino
In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good . When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer...Categorized as:
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Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsInternational phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords... -
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![A Light on the Hill by Connilyn Cossette]()
A Light on the Hill by Connilyn Cossette
Seven years ago, Moriyah was taken captive in Jericho and branded with the mark of the Canaanite gods. Now the Israelites are experiencing peace in their new land, but Moriyah has yet to find her own peace. Because of the shameful mark on her face, she hides behind her veil at all times and the disdain of the townspeople keeps her from socializing. And marriage prospects were out of the question...Categorized as:
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![Boy Underground by Catherine Ryan Hyde]()
Boy Underground by Catherine Ryan Hyde
During WWII, a teenage boy finds his voice, the courage of his convictions, and friends for life in an emotional and uplifting novel by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author.1941. Steven Katz is the son of prosperous landowners in rural California. Although his parents don’t approve, he’s found true friends in Nick, Suki, and Ollie, sons of field workers... -
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![The Hidden Prince by Tessa Afshar]()
The Hidden Prince by Tessa Afshar
From the bestselling author of Jewel of the Nile comes the thrilling tale of a woman who feels she has no future but soon discovers the fate of nations may rest in her hands.The beloved daughter of Jewish captives in Babylon, Keren is sold into Daniel’s household to help her family survive...Categorized as:
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![Isaiah's Daughter by Mesu Andrews]()
Isaiah's Daughter by Mesu Andrews
In this epic Biblical narrative, ideal for fans of The Bible miniseries, a young woman taken into the prophet Isaiah's household rises to capture the heart of the future king. Isaiah adopts Ishma, giving her a new name--Zibah, delight of the Lord--thereby ensuring her royal pedigree. Ishma came to the prophet's home, devastated after watching her family destroyed and living as a captive...Categorized as:
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![A Game of Hearts by Joanna Barker]()
A Game of Hearts by Joanna Barker
If you can't join them... beat them.Marigold Cartwell has only one goal: to defeat her long-time rival on the archery field. She knows she can outshoot irritating, cynical Tristan Gates, but the local bowmen’s society—the one he belongs to—refuses to allow women to compete. Spurred on by their rejection, Marigold decides to start a new society. Naturally, it has only one rule: no men...Categorized as:
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![Until the Mountains Fall by Connilyn Cossette]()
Until the Mountains Fall by Connilyn Cossette
Recently widowed, Rivkah refuses to submit to the Torah law compelling her to marry her husband's brother and instead flees Kedesh, hoping to use her talents as a scribe to support herself. Without the protections of her father, Kedesh's head priest, and the safety of the city of refuge, Rivkah soon discovers that the cost of recklessness is her own freedom...Categorized as:
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![Counted With the Stars by Connilyn Cossette]()
Counted With the Stars by Connilyn Cossette
A Story of Love, Desperation, and Hope During a Great Biblical Epoch Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all...Categorized as:
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![The Kiss of a Stranger by Sarah M. Eden]()
The Kiss of a Stranger by Sarah M. Eden
When Crispin, Lord Cavratt, thoroughly and scandalously kisses a serving woman in the garden of a country inn, he assumes the encounter will be of no consequence. But he couldn’t be more mistaken— the maid is not only a lady of birth, she’s the niece of a very large, exceptionally angry gentleman, who claims Crispin has compromised his niece beyond redemption...Categorized as:
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![Between the Wild Branches by Connilyn Cossette]()
Between the Wild Branches by Connilyn Cossette
Ten years ago Lukio fled Kiryat-Yearim, where he'd been adopted by the Levite family who guarded the Ark of the Covenant. Feeling betrayed by everyone, he returned to his birthplace in Philistia to become a famous fighter. Now the champion of Ashdod, Lukio has achieved every goal with the help of his ruthless cousin...Categorized as:
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![Shadow of the Storm by Connilyn Cossette]()
Shadow of the Storm by Connilyn Cossette
In the Depth of the Storm's Shadow, Only Truth Can Light Her Way Having escaped Egypt with the other Hebrews during the Exodus, Shira is now living in freedom at the foot of Mt. Sinai, upon which rests the fiery glowing Cloud containing the shekinah glory of God...Categorized as:
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![Wings of the Wind by Connilyn Cossette]()
Wings of the Wind by Connilyn Cossette
Alanah, a Canaanite, is no stranger to fighting and survival. When her family is killed in battle with the Hebrews, she disguises herself and sneaks onto the battlefield to avenge her family. The one thing she never counted on was surviving. Tobiah, a Hebrew warrior, is shocked to find an unconscious, wounded woman among the Canaanite casualties...Categorized as:
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![Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson]()
Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson
Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance...Categorized as:
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![To Charm a Lady by Joanna Barker]()
To Charm a Lady by Joanna Barker
Cora Atherton wants nothing more than to finally fall in love—real love, not the unrequited sort. When she is invited to attend a house party without her disapproving, overbearing mother, Cora leaps at the chance, desperate to make a match of her own. That is, until she finds that Oliver Cartwell is also attending the party...Categorized as:
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![The Emerald Sea by Richelle Mead]()
The Emerald Sea by Richelle Mead
The final installment in Richelle Mead's sweeping, enthralling Glittering Court series answers the trilogy's biggest question: what is the secret that drives Tamsin to win at all costs?Tamsin Wright is unstoppable... -
![Pictures of You by Leta Blake]()
Pictures of You by Leta Blake
Growing up gay isn’t easy. Growing up gay in Knoxville, Tennessee is even harder. Eighteen-year-old Peter Mandel, a private school senior—class of 1990—is passionate about photography. Peter doesn’t have many friends, preferring to shoot pictures from behind the scenes to keep his homosexuality secret...Categorized as:
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![You Are Not Me by Leta Blake]()
You Are Not Me by Leta Blake
Follow Peter into the summer following his senior year to face new beginnings, new friends, and old baggage. After a tumultuous final year of high school, Peter Mandel needs a break. It's the summer of 1991, and his secret relationship with his ‘best friend’ Adam Algedi is put on hold as Adam goes away to Italy for the summer...Categorized as:
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![To Dwell among Cedars by Connilyn Cossette]()
To Dwell among Cedars by Connilyn Cossette
Eight years ago, when the Philistines stole and then surrendered the ark of the covenant back to the Israelites, Eliora left her Philistine homeland to follow the ark to the community of Kiryat Yearim. There, the family she was adopted into has guarded the ark at the top of a mountain in seclusion...Categorized as:
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![Voice of the Ancient by Connilyn Cossette]()
Voice of the Ancient by Connilyn Cossette
As the eldest son of a Levite and a Philistine, Avidan is torn between his duty to his family legacy and the desire for something more. When Ammonites attack the city of Yavash-Gilead, he takes the opportunity to fight with his cousins for the newly crowned King Saul. But when one of the cousins goes missing during the battle, Avidan stays behind to search for him in hopes that he's still alive...Categorized as:
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![Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi]()
Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi
Sixteen-year-old Jem struggles to maintain the status quo at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence... -
![The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson]()
The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe thrilling story of the French princess who became an English queen from the author of critically acclaimed Agincourt Bride... -
![Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir]()
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsI am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy... -
![Mademoiselle Boleyn by Robin Maxwell]()
Mademoiselle Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFrom the author of The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn comes a riveting portrait of Anne Boleyn’s youth and her unconventional education in the court of the King of France.When her father is assigned the task of spying on the French Court, the charming and sweetly innocent Anne Boleyn is delighted by the thought of a new adventure... -
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![The Highlander’s Tudor Lass by Heather McCollum]()
The Highlander’s Tudor Lass by Heather McCollum
Callum Macquarie would give anything to go back to the Highlands and Wolf Isle. Instead, he’s stuck circling an undefended English castle in too-tight breeches, longing for his bed and his plaid. But he has an oath to keep: to bring home the bonny Anna Montgomerie and her sister before that devil of a blaggard pirate Jundeau finds them first...Categorized as:
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![Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer]()
Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsShe risked everything to become queenThough born without great beauty, wealth, or title, Anne Boleyn blossomed into a captivating woman. She used her wiles to win the heart of England’s most powerful man, King Henry VIII, and to persuade him to defy everyoneincluding his own wifeto make her his new queen. But Anne’s ambition proved to be her fatal flaw... -
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![Brazen (Royal Circle) by Katherine Longshore]()
Brazen (Royal Circle) by Katherine Longshore
Mary Howard has always lived in the shadow of her powerful family. But when she’s married off to Henry Fitzroy, King Henry VIII’s illegitimate son, she rockets into the Tudor court’s inner circle. Mary and “Fitz” join a tight clique of rebels who test the boundaries of court’s strict rules with their games, dares, and flirtations...Categorized as:
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![Summerhaven by Tiffany Odekirk]()
Summerhaven by Tiffany Odekirk
Hannah Kent and Oliver Jennings pledged their hearts to each other as children. Now, years later, Hannah is thrilled to receive an invitation to spend the summer at Oliver’s family’s country estate. The path to wedded bliss is clear—so long as Oliver’s highbrow older brother, Damon, has ceased his juvenile antics, Hannah’s future looks bright indeed...Categorized as:
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![The Virgin's Daughter by Laura Andersen]()
The Virgin's Daughter by Laura Andersen
What if Elizabeth the First, the celebrated Virgin Queen, had a daughter? For those who just can’t get enough of the scandalous Tudors, the author of the wildly popular Boleyn King series offers an enthralling new saga of the royal family, set in Elizabethan England. Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir... -
![Maid of Secrets by Jennifer McGowan]()
Maid of Secrets by Jennifer McGowan
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOrphan Meg Fellowes makes her living picking pockets—until she steals from the wrong nobleman. Instead of rotting in prison like she expected, she’s whisked away to the court of Queen Elizabeth and pressed into royal service, where she joins four other remarkable girls in the Maids of Honor, the Queen’s secret society of protectors... -
![A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir]()
A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsIn this engrossing novel of historical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir tells the dramatic intertwined stories of two women—Katherine Grey and Kate Plantagenet—separated by time but linked by twin destinies . . . . involving the mysterious tragic fate of the young Princes in the Tower... -
![The Queen's Secret by Victoria Lamb]()
The Queen's Secret by Victoria Lamb
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsJuly 1575Elizabeth I, Queen of England, arrives at Kenilworth Castle amid pomp, fanfare and a wealth of lavish festivities, laid on by the Earl of Leicester. The hopeful Earl knows this is his very last chance to persuade the Queen to marry him... -
![What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri]()
What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri
As the abandoned son of a Lascar—a sailor from India—Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish...Categorized as:
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![The Queen's Lady by Eve Edwards]()
The Queen's Lady by Eve Edwards
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEngland, 1584.When beautiful Lady Jane Rievaulx begins her service to the Queen at Richmond Palace, she is thrilled to see the court's newest arrival . . . Master James Lacey.No matter that Jane was previously courted by the eldest Lacey brother—James is the one who has won her heart. For his part, James cannot deny his fascination with Jane; his plans, however, do not allow for love... -
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![The Other Countess by Eve Edwards]()
The Other Countess by Eve Edwards
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 32 ratings"Part romance, part suspense, part friendship . . . The Other Countess will not disappoint--it really is pure gold!"--Historical Novels ReviewEngland, 1582Ellie—Lady Eleanor Rodriguez, Countess of San Jaime—possesses a worthless title, but her feisty spirit captivates the elite of the Queen's court—especially the dashing new Earl of Dorset... -
![The Rogue's Princess by Eve Edwards]()
The Rogue's Princess by Eve Edwards
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 13 ratings1586 – London, England. Sixteen-year-old Mercy Hart is the daughter of one of London’s richest – and strictest – cloth merchants. Kit Turner is an actor and the illegitimate son of the late Earl of Dorset. A chance encounter finds Kit falling for the beautiful Mercy’s charms, but their love is forbidden. A merchant’s daughter and a vagabond – it simply cannot be... -
![Patience, Princess Catherine by Carolyn Meyer]()
Patience, Princess Catherine by Carolyn Meyer
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWill Catherine ever become queen? England anxiously awaits Prince Arthur’s betrothed—the Spanish princess who will be its future queen. But when Arthur dies not long after the wedding, Catherine of Aragon’s fate becomes uncertain... -
![A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly]()
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder...Categorized as:
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![The Virgin Elizabeth: A Novel by Robin Maxwell]()
The Virgin Elizabeth: A Novel by Robin Maxwell
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA book of passion, of sixteenth-century England, of greed and political ambition unto death. Historians and novelists have written extensively about the various aspects of Queen Elizabeth I's long, rich, and tumultuous life. No one has ever given us a fully realized portrait of the greatest English monarch as a young girl... -
![Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer]()
Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsElizabeth Tudor's teenage years are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her father has beheaded her mother; her jealous half sister has her locked away in the Tower of London; and her only love has betrayed her in his own quest for the throne. Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending when she is crowned queen, this is the second novel in the exciting Young Royals series... -
![The Forgotten Queen by D.L. Bogdan]()
The Forgotten Queen by D.L. Bogdan
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsOne of the most intriguing yet most overlooked figures of the Tudor age—Margaret, Queen of Scotland, daughter of Henry VII, and sister to Henry VIII—comes to vivid life in a stunning novel of love and ambition, from the acclaimed author of The Sumerton Women. From her earliest days, Margaret Tudor knows she will not have the luxury of choosing a husband. Her duty is to gain alliances for England... -
![Queen Bee by Amalie Howard]()
Queen Bee by Amalie Howard
A teen girl seeking retribution against her backstabbing former best friend finds her plans slightly derailed once she catches the eye of a familiar, handsome marquess...Categorized as:
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![Pride by Ibi Zoboi]()
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street.Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable... -
![Agent 355 by Marie Benedict, Emily Rankin]()
Agent 355 by Marie Benedict, Emily Rankin
Listening Length: 2 hours and 7 minutesFrom Marie Benedict, best-selling author of The Only Woman in the Room and Lady Clementine, comes a captivating work of historical fiction about a young female spy who may have changed the course of American History.The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly... -
![By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate]()
By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate
From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about an editor, her bestselling author, and one life-changing secret.What she doesn’t know about love could fill a book.With a successful career as a romance editor, and an engagement to a man who checks off all ninety-nine boxes on her carefully curated list, Lanie’s more than good. She’s killing it... -
![The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin]()
The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMean Girls meets The Tudors in Hannah Capin’s The Dead Queens Club, a clever contemporary YA retelling of Henry VIII and his wives (or, in this case, his high school girlfriends)... -
![Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa M. Klein]()
Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa M. Klein
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsLady Catherine is one of Queen Elizabeth's favorite court maidens—until her forbidden romance with Sir Walter Ralegh is discovered. In a bitter twist of irony, the jealous queen banishes Cate to Ralegh's colony of Roanoke, in the New World. Ralegh pledges to come for Cate, but as the months stretch out, Cate begins to doubt his promise and his love... -
![Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë]()
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
An alternate cover edition can be found here.Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position.Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression...Categorized as:
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