The Queen's Dollmaker
10 best books like The Queen's Dollmaker (Christine Trent): Troublesome Creek, The Perfect Woman, The Highest Stakes, The Pursuit of Pleasure, Sunrise, The Triumph of Grace, Sweetie, Heidegger's Glasses, Swept Away, The World From Rough Stones
| Author | Jan Watson |
| ISBN | 1414304471 |
A charming historical novel set in the late 1800s. Born and raised in the hills of Kentucky, Laura "Copper" Grace loves the wilderness of her home in Troublesome Creek. But when her stepmother threatens to send her away to boarding school to become a lady, Copper faces the possibility of losing everything...
| Author | James Andrus |
| ISBN | 0786022159 |
One Man’s Obsession…
Pharmacy clerk William Dremmel is hooked—on drugging pretty young women and lulling them into slow, blissfully quiet deaths. Then he packs his victims in luggage—a nod to the cops that he works alone. Dremmel’s no fool, he’s also a college professor. He just...
| Author | Emery Lee |
| ISBN | 1402236425 |
WHAT WOULD YOU WAGER FOR LOVE?
In the high stakes gentleman's world of 18th century horseracing, when the blood of the "desert kings" ruled the English turf, a hero returns from war to claim the girl he has loved since he first spied her riding hell-for-leather over the Doncaster heath. Determined...
| Author | Elizabeth Essex |
| ISBN | 0758251548 |
Never Say “Never” To Passion…
Lizzie Paxton’s dream in life is to be a widow—if only she could skip the wedding and the husband. When her childhood friend Captain James Marlowe proposes a marriage in name only, she accepts, knowing she’ll have the independence she craves once...
| Author | Jacquelyn Cook |
| ISBN | 0976876094 |
The true love story behind one of Georgia's most famous antebellum mansions. In the 1850's Anne Tracy, a smart and well-educated young woman from the stifled but elegant world of Macon, Georgia, made a polite marriage with an older, wealthy merchant, William Butler Johnson. The unlikely pairing blossomed...
| Author | Kay Marshall Strom |
| ISBN | 1426702132 |
A 2011 BookList Top Ten Inspirational Book
This riveting conclusion of Grace Winslow's fight for freedom carries her from England to America's Deep South. After learning that her husband, Cabeto, is on a South Carolina plantation, Grace dons a sailor's disguise and boards the only ship headed...
| Author | Kathryn Magendie |
| ISBN | 1935661914 |
Five stars. FIVE STARS to this book. I'm out of breath from being totally blown away by this beautiful coming-of-age story. Parts of this book reminded me of an old favorite book, The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright. Kathryn Magendie has captured some magic in her descriptions of the Smoky...
Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at its seams. The Third Reich’s strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes –translators responsible for answering...
| Author | Marsha Canham |
| ISBN | 0440235219 |
When a woman who's ready for love meets a dangerous, passionate man, she can easily get Swept Away....
Bestselling, award-winning author Marsha Canham's breathtaking new novel transports readers to Regency England as a young woman rescues a mysterious man, only to find love, danger, destiny....
"They...
The World From Rough Stones
| Author | Malcolm MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0340190396 |
The unforgettable first novel in the classic Stevenson Family Saga from epic master Malcolm MacdonaldJohn Stevenson is a just a foreman when a near-fatal accident bring young Nora Telling into his life. Her nimbleness of mind and his power of command enable them to take over the working mill and rescue...
| Author | Jane Singer |
| ISBN | 0980245338 |
"My brother killed Abraham Lincoln. That is my weight, my shame. While he remained at large, I was held captive in my home. I should have told the soldiers who came with guns drawn and bayonets at the ready this true thing: I might have stopped him, for I harbored him and kept his secrets. I was a pie safe locked...
Three children whirl back in time through an enchanted potter’s wheel into the reality of evacuation in 1940s Britain . . . Whirl of the Wheel pulls feisty Connie, her brother Charlie-Mouse, and school pest Malcolm into dangers on the homefront and towards a military secret that will save their home...
Whilst navigating the virtual world of e-books I foundered upon this perky nautical yarn laid out as part prose, part play and bundled up as a historical fiction novella. The Middle Passage refers to the section of the slave traders journey taken from West Africa to the Americas once the business of acquiring...
Andre St James is a centuries old vampire, born and bred in Naw Leans with a take-charge attitude that usually gets him exactly what he wants. Then he meets Cynthiana and he knows she is his love. He fears for her life because fragile humans die every day. Heart attacks. Car wrecks. He won't risk her waiting...
A good-hearted boy. A segregated town. A stolen fortune. A coming-of-age story full of hope and forgiveness When twelve-year-old Knot Crews, an African American boy growing up in the segregated south Georgia town of Statenville, discovers a bag of bank-robbed cash in an alley, he is nearly overcome...
| Author | Maureen Lang |
| ISBN | 1414324367 |
In Brussels at the height of WWI, a small, underground newspaper is the only thing offering the occupied city hope—and real news of the war. The paper may be a small whisper amid the shouts of the German army, but Edward Kirkland will do anything to keep it in print. Meanwhile, Isa Lassone, a Belgian-American...
| Author | Louise Marley |
| ISBN | 0758242123 |
As a young soprano in the eighteenth century, Octavia Voss was bitten by a vampire patroness during a sexual tryst with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and was imbued with the essence of his astonishing musical gifts. Since then, Octavia has enjoyed several careers as a celebrated soprano, taking on new identities...
| Author | Elysa Hendricks |
| ISBN | 1893896579 |
A warrior by nature, a prince by birth, Ash del Gar resigns himself to a loveless, political marriage with the princess of a neighboring country. On his wedding night he discovers his bride is Raaka-one without a soul. For peace to reign, the marriage must produce children, so when a holy man tells Ash...
| Author | Alicia Rasley |
| ISBN | 1611940001 |
The tragic mystery at the heart of their family has finally surfaced . . .
When Presbyterian minister Ellen Wakefield O Connor is confronted by a young man armed with a birth certificate that mistakenly names her as his mother, she quickly
sorts out the truth: his birth mother listed Ellen on...
| Author | Maryann Miller |
| ISBN | 1594146993 |
Powerful.
Jenny is a single mom raising two sons and a daughter the best she can with no help from their father. She’s the owner of a flower shop and leads a pleasantly mundane life…until the day her oldest son dies in a car crash.
ONE SMALL VICTORY is the story of her journey from grieving...
| Author | Beth Williamson |
| ISBN | 1599986590 |
Amidst the post-war chaos that rains down around them, a controlling man and a desperate woman must choose between life and love.
Nate Marchand grew up as the only son of the town drunk. As a Confederate soldier, he found that order in the chaos was the only thing that kept him sane. Numbers,...
| Author | T. Greenwood |
| ISBN | 0758228775 |
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still wracked with sorrow over...
| Author | Kathi Macias |
| ISBN | 1426702159 |
In the 3rd century, pampered Roman princess Valeria falls in love with Mauritius, captain of the Theban Legion. She sends him off to battle, where he suffers under the schemes of a notorious pagan general with an ambition for power and a lust for Valeria. In a scene based on true events, the evil Galerius...
| Author | Charlie Carillo |
| ISBN | 0758235054 |
Blurb: Back in the Eighties, Mickey DeFalco was America's teenage heartthrob with spiky gelled hair, slanted sideburns, and a number-one hit single -- "Sweet Days" -- a sappy love song he wrote after his high school sweetheart, Lynn Mahoney, broke his heart. Now approaching middle age, Mickey is lucky...
| Author | Julia Schuster |
| ISBN | 0982175612 |
In 1956, Olivia and her twin sister are born to a nun in an old auto parts store turned convent in rural Mississippi. Little Olivia doesn't survive the day, but her spunky spirit hangs around and takes on the role of ethereal watchdog over her twin. When the Reverend Mother-and holy guilt-convince the...
