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The Mistress of Nothing

by Kate Pullinger

Published: 2014-04-15

Paperback: 320 pages

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Kate Pullinger's Governor General's Literary Award-winning novel about a lady, her maid and the man that comes between them.      Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London society but when she contracts tuberculosis, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt a...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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The Mistress of Nothing: A Novel

by Kate Pullinger

Published: 2011-01-04

Kindle Edition: 258 pages

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The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady’s maid’s awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt’s Nile Valley When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, dry climate of Egypt to seek ...

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* * * * Romantic,
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Mistress of Rome

by Kate Quinn

Published: 2010-04-06

Paperback: 470 pages

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The first gripping historical fiction novel in national bestselling author Kate Quinn's Empress of Rome saga. First-century Rome: a world of depravity, blood, and secrets. The ruthless and enigmatic Emperor Domitian watches over all—and fixes his gaze on one humble young woman…. Thea ...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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The Mistress of Spices (Macmillan Readers)

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anne Collins

Published: 2005-04-20

Paperback: 96 pages

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Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers.��Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now immor...

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* * * Dramatic,
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Mistress of the Art of Death

by Ariana Franklin

Published: 2007-02-06

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jew...

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* * * * Informative,
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Mistress of the Revolution

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A singular new voice in historical fiction. A time of decadence in a country embroiled in revolution. An unforgettably high-spirited heroine. Set in opulent, decadent, turbulent revolutionary France, Mistress of the Revolution is the story of Gabrielle de Montserrat. An impoverished nob...

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Mistress of the Revolution: A Novel

by Catherine Delors

Published: 2009-03-03

Paperback: 528 pages

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In 1815 England, an exiled Frenchwoman, Gabrielle de Monserrat, begins a memoir of her days before and during the French Revolution. Gabrielle, the youngest daughter of a family of the impoverished nobility, recalls her journey through hardships and betrayals. A widow at seventeen with a young daughter,...

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Mistress of the Sun: A Novel

by Sandra Gulland

Published: 2008-06-03

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Valli�re, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King...

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Mistress of the Vatican LP: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

by Eleanor Herman

Published: 2008-09-01

Paperback: 736 pages

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"We have just elected a female pope." ?Cardinal Alessandro Bichi, 1644 Today's Roman Catholic Church firmly states that women must be excluded from church leadership positions, but they neglect to mention that for over a decade in the seventeenth century a woman unofficially, but ope...

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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope (P.S.)

by Eleanor Herman

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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Born without a dowry, nearly forced into a convent, and later married off to a man she didn't love, Olimpia Maidalchini vowed never to be poor, powerless, or beholden to any man again. Instead, using her wits, Olimpia became the unofficial ruler of the most powerful institution in the wor...