The Traitor's Smile
10 best books like The Traitor's Smile (Patricia Elliott): The Body at the Tower, In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story, In the Shadow of the Lamp, The Queen's Lady, Contagion, The Last Full Measure, Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love, The Time Travelers: Volume One, The Girl in the Mask, Violins of Autumn
Author | Y.S. Lee |
ISBN | 0763649686 |
Now nearly a full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit operating out of Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn is back for another action-packed adventure. Disguised as a poor apprentice builder and a boy, she must brave the grimy underbelly of Victorian London - as...
Author | Carolyn Meyer |
ISBN | 0152055940 |
Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl's heart-wrenching tale. It's the story of her undying passion...
Author | Susanne Dunlap |
ISBN | 1599905655 |
It's 1854 and sixteen-year-old Molly would give anything to change her circumstances as a lowly servant in a posh London house. So when she hears of an opportunity to join the nurses who will be traveling with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea, she jumps at the chance. The work is grueling, the hospital...
Author | Eve Edwards |
ISBN | 0141327332 |
1584 - Surrey, England
When Lady Jane Rievaulx begins service to the Queen at Richmond Palace, she is thrilled at the court's newest arrival . . . Master James Lacey.
Despite her previous courtship with his older brother, James is the man she truly loves. And for his part, he cannot...
Author | Joanne Dahme |
ISBN | 0762437383 |
Rose Dugan is a young and beautiful woman living in Philadelphia in the late 19th century passionate about keeping Philadelphia's water reservoir clean and healthy. But when Rose starts receiving threatening letters, warning her to convince her husband to shut down his plans for a water filtration...
Author | Ann Rinaldi |
ISBN | 0547389809 |
As Confederate and Union soldiers take over their town, the local residents can do little more than hunker down in their homes while cannon and gunfire explode around them. But the battles are not only fought between soldiers. At home, fourteen-year-old Tacy and her disabled brother lock horns as David...
Author | Nellie Bennett |
ISBN | 1402293852 |
In search of herself, Nellie Bennett fell passionately in love...with the land of flamenco
One day, Nellie Bennett falls in love with flamenco in a Sydney dance studio. Tired of her boring retail job and longing to get closer to the authentic experience, she packs her suede dance shoes and travels...
Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
ISBN | 0553494805 |
Imagine changing centuries - and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.
Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries.
Imagine discovering that, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must abandon someone you love.
Meet...
Author | Marie-Louise Jensen |
ISBN | 0192792792 |
Set in Georgian England, fifteen-year-old Sophia is trapped by the limitations of living in a man's world. Forced by her father to give up everything she loves, Sophia is ordered to make a new life in Bath. By day, she is trapped in the social whirl of balls and masquerades. By night, she secretly swaps...
Author | Amy McAuley |
ISBN | 0802722997 |
When the Germans begin bombing London in World War II, Betty is determined to do her part. Instead of running air raid drills like most girls her age, she lies about her age and trains to become a spy. Now known by her secret agent persona, Adele Blanchard, she finds herself parachuting over German-occupied...
Author | Laura L. Sullivan |
ISBN | 0547581297 |
Eliza dreams of being a playwright for the king’s theater, where she will be admired for her witty turns of phrase rather than her father’s wealth.
Beth is beautiful as the day but poor as a church mouse, so she must marry well, despite her love for her childhood sweetheart.
Zabby...
Author | Noboru Yamaguchi |
ISBN | 4840111448 |
Kvůli hloupému holčičímu sporu a dalšímu z řady Luisiných kouzelnických selhání došlo k narušení zdi pokladnice akademie. Toho okamžitě využila tajemná zlodějka, známá pod přezdívkou Hlínodrť Fouquet, s pomocí svého hliněného golema pronikla dovnitř a zmocnila...
Author | Barbara Dana |
ISBN | 0060287047 |
When something is most important to me and I do not want to lose it, I gather it into a poem. It is said that women must employ the needle and not the pen. But I will be a Poet! That's who I am!
Before she was an iconic American poet, Emily Dickinson was a spirited girl eager to find her place in the world....
Author | Kate Forsyth |
ISBN | 1040503779 |
Book 2 in the Chain of Charms series, a brilliant new adventure series set amongst the gypsies of Cromwell's England.
From the bestselling author of the Witches of Eileanan series.
Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver...
Author | Sharon Stewart |
ISBN | 0439961033 |
The first book in a new series that picks up where the Royal Diaries left off! Previously published as The Dark Tower, this riveting novel is written as the diary of Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who was imprisoned during the French Revolution....
Princess Malva--the Princetta of Galnicia--flees her kingdom and an arranged marriage, only to find herself betrayed by the very man who promised to help her. Orpheus is the son of a sea-captain-turned-pirate and is determined to make a name of his own commanding a ship in Galnicia's royal armada....