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Moran, Michelle. THE HERETIC QUEEN. In ancient Vreeland, Susan. THE PASSION OF ARTEMESIA. From Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and past and remake history. Nefertari has been left to run beautiful and original paintings,struggles for ac- wild in the palace, but catches the eye of the Crown ceptance by the artistic establishment and betrayal by Prince. All of Egypt opposes this union, and political the men she loved, Susan Vreeland brings Artemisia's adversity sets the country on edge. (See also, CLEO- intensely moving story to vivid life. PATRA’S DAUGHTER & MADAME TUSSAUD) Weir, Allison. DANGEROUS INHERITANCE. England's Parker, Robert. B. GUNMAN’S RHAPSODY. A brilliant Tower of London was the terrifying last stop for gener- and evocative novel set against the hard scrabble fron- ations of English political prisoners. Across the years, tier life of the West, featuring Wyatt Earp four young royals shared the same small rooms in their dark prison, as all four shared the unfortunate role of Renault, Mary. THE KING MUST DIE. Theseus joins the being perceived as threats to the reigning monarch. bull-dancers in Crete and takes advantage of an earth- quake to overthrow the kingdom. From the queen of historical fiction.

Russell, Mary Doria. DOC. After the burned body of a mixed-blood boy, Johnnie Sanders, is discovered in 1878 Dodge City, Kansas, part-time policeman Wyatt Earp enlists the help of his professional-gambler friend Biographical Doc Holliday.

Stachniak, Eva. THE WINTER PALACE. A reimagining of the early years of Catherine the Great traces the Historical story of two young women: Barbara, a servant who will become one of Russia's most cunning royal spies, and Book annotations courtesy of NoveList, Sophia, a pretty, naive German duchess who will be- an online tool to help you find Novels come Catherine the Great. your next good novel! Taylor, Diana Wallis. MARTHA. Martha, the sister of Find it on our website: Mary and Lazarus, devotes herself to caring for her Click “Research”, family, is abandoned by her betrothed, is drawn to a then “Online Research”, Roman soldier, and finds meaning and grace in her life when she meets the Teacher. then “NoveList”

Vidal, Gore. BURR. Aaron Burr tells his biographer de- tails of his life, including his duel with Alexander Hamil- Tewksbury Public Library ton and his two marriages. 300 Chandler Street, Tewksbury, MA 01876 978-640-4490 www.tewksburypl.org Benjamin, Melanie. ALICE, I HAVE BEEN. Alice Lid- Diliberto, Gioia. I AM MADAME X. The fictionalized Horan, Nancy. LOVING FRANK. Fact & fiction blend dell Hargreaves's life has been a richly woven tap- story of Virginie Gautreau's life, draws on the sketchy in a historical novel that chronicles the relation- estry, but she knows that, to the world around her, facts known about the subject of John Singer Sargent's ship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright she is and will always be only "Alice." Her life was famous painting, Madame X. & Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they permanently changed at one fateful moment, the were each married to another, to the clandestine Ebershoff, David. THE 19th WIFE. The story of Ann Eliza golden day she urged a grown-up friend affair that shocked Chicago society. Young's crusade against polygamy intertwines with a to write down one of his fanciful stories. tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present- Keane, Mary Beth. FEVER. A fictional portrait of Benjamin, Melanie. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE. A story day Utah. Typhoid Mary, the Irish immigrant cook who inspired by the marriage between Charles and spread disease and death among the cramped, Erickson, Carolly. THE HIDDEN DIARY OF MARIE ANTOI- traces the romance be- unsanitary streets of turn-of-the-century New NETTE. Awaiting her execution, Marie Antoinette tween a handsome young aviator and a shy ambas- York. writes the story of her life. sador's daughter. Mantel, Hilary. WOLF HALL. A detailed look into Fields, Jennie. THE AGE OF DESIRE. Reimagines the Boyle, T.C. THE WOMEN. Using Frank Lloyd Wright the life and times of Thomas Cromwell and Henry midlife world of Edith Wharton & the impact of her as his muse, T.C. Boyle presents a novel based on VIII in the 1520s, in particular the events leading affair with a young journalist on her longtime friend- the great American architect and the four distinct up to the King's marriage to Anne Boleyn and the ship with disapproving literary secretary Anna Bahl- women that permeated his life, career, and heart. role Cromwell played in those events. First in a mann, in a tale told against the backdrop of trilogy. Brooks, Geraldine. CALEB’S CROSSING. Growing up . in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small Gregory, Philippa. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL. The Min, Anchee. PEARL OF CHINA. In the last band of pioneers and Puritans, Bethia Mayfield th daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and days of the 19 century, young Willow and yearns for an education that is closed to her due to Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter her gender. As soon as she can, she slips away to attract the attention of the king, who first takes Mary of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads explore the island's glistening beaches and ob- as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegiti- and embark on a friendship that will sustain serves its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At mate son, and then Anne as his wife. Try also, The both of them through one of the most tumul- twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a White Queen about Elizabeth Woodville Grey. chieftain, and the two forge a secret friendship tuous periods in Chinese history. that draws each into the alien world of the other. Gulland, Sandra. MISTRESS OF THE SUN. A tale based Moehringer, J.R. SUTTON. A fictionalized ac- on the life of 17th century horsewoman Louise de la Cowell, Stephanie. CLAUDE & CAMILLE. A vividly count of Willie Sutton, one of the most notori- Valliere finds an eccentric young woman's love for a rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism ous criminals in American history, traces his wild white stallion tempting her into using an ancient and of Monet, the artist at the center of the move- life, his doomed romance with his first love, magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads ment. It is, above all, a love story of the highest to her affair with the charismatic Louis XIV. First in a and his surprise pardon on Christmas Eve in romantic order. series. 1969. Cross, Donna Woolfolk. POPE JOAN. Berated for Hicks, Robert. A SEPARATE COUNTRY. A tale inspired being intelligent and scholarly, Joan dons her dead by the life of Confederate general John Bell Hood is set brother's clothes, assumes a man's identity, and in post-Civil War New Orleans and follows his tragic gains respect and authority as well as the title of struggles with disabling war injuries, his marriage and pope. eleven children, and his battle with yellow fever.