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Compelling historical fiction set in France in the 1300s, A Slender Tether dramatizes the struggle of the brilliant pioneer Christine de Pizan, the world's first feminist and author.
Amid the turbulent weather of Europe's Little Ice Age, "A Slender Tether" offers three compelling tales of self-discovery, woven into a rich tapestry of 14th century France. Christine de Pizan, daughter of a disgraced court physician and astrologer, grapples with her ambition to be the first woman writer in France. A doctor finds an unusual way to cope with the death of his wife. And opportunity alternates with disasters in the lives of four commoners, yoked by necessity: a paper-maker struggling to keep his business, a falconer with a mysterious past, a merchant's daughter franti | |  | | Jaguar Paloma and the Caketown Bar
In 1865 two extraordinary women establish a raucous trading post for cast-off women, but their mirth is challenged by a greedy mayor and a murderous forger. Reviewers are calling it “exquisitely written.”
span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">In 1865 in the shanty town of Tartatenango, the Caketown Bar is owned by the extraordinary Jaguar Paloma, matriarch of a village of raucous miscreants, cast-off mothers, muleteers, and forgers. Amid drunken monks, a roaring trade in faked marriages just for fun, and the Romani, residents balance on the knife-edge between legality and the illicit. Co-founder Orietta Becerra is breathtakingly beautiful and ambitious. But when she crosses the tracks and marries the town's mayor, her double life severs her friendship | |  | | Straight Uphill: A Tale of Love and Chocolate
Revel in the lives of five generations of women chocolatiers. Through WWII, WWI, back to the Age of Discovery and up to modern times, women and men on a small Italian hilltop struggle with the many meanings of love.
In an Italian hilltop village, five generations of women confectioners work the improbable magic of love and chocolate. Can a brokenhearted American tourist fight the ghosts of her past to find a new life? Can a courageous mother save the village in the midst of war; and a renegade daughter redefine familial love? Could unlikely couples find each other despite their differences? If an abandoned widow navigates a shifting sense of purpose, will the legacy of chocolatiers take a new turn?
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Critics say that with "wry sensibilities and lyric prose" Wells shows us eight families facing love and loss with humor. Hear a snippet on her bio page!
span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Love, loss, irony and humor abound in the lives of eight families living around Loon Lake, a shallow fishing spot in Northern Michigan. Wells’ “use of language is like music,” critics says, while others call her writing “a rich and varied drug,” and these stories convey “a real sense of the contradiction and the ambivalence that goes on within the family circle…through writing that has a lyrical style.”/span>span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> /span>span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Whether | |  | | The Mandrake Broom
Dramatizing the fight to save medical knowledge during the European witch-burning times 1465-1540, "The Mandrake Broom" has been called "riveting".
The Historical Novels Review says i>The Mandrake Broom/i> "belongs on everyone's reading list."
In this fast-paced dramatization of one woman's courage fight to save medical knowledge during the witch-burning times, you'll meet:
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li>Luccia Alimenti, daughter of a medical professor at the University of Salerno, Italy, destined to carry ancient texts and herbal lore into the dangerous and ground-breaking future./li>
li>Fiona, her Irish godmother who tries to protect her and forge a family while struggling with epilepsy and grief./li>
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Dramatizing the fight to save medical knowledge during the witch-burning times 1465-1540 in Europe. Called "riveting" and "tremendously impressive."
span style="font-size: 9pt;">Charged with the task of carrying the foremost medical volume of the time – the Trotula – a young Salernita struggles through her dangerous journey while trusting plants more than people. Harbored and helped by feral herbalists, a giant bowman, scribes and traders, she years to recraft medical science with Paracelsus, the father of modern surgery./span>
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