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Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel Pitt is named junior counsel on a fraud case with the potential to make or break his reputation. The trouble is, Malcolm Vayne, the man on trial, has deep pockets, and even deeper connections. Working alongside Gideon Hunter, the new head of his firm, Daniel must find a way to prove that Vayne is guilty. Vayne's trial reveals his deep political ambitions, and it heats up further...
Author
Series
Ladies of distinction volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Private Investigator Theodore Wilder is on a mission to find Arabella Beckett. But this feisty suffragette may be more trouble than he bargained for!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Lake Manawa summers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this lighthearted historical romance set at a turn-of-the-century lake resort, an independent young woman doesn't think she needs a man until a brash young baseball player catches her eye.
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living for her work at Oxford and her fight for women’s suffrage, deeply introverted Catriona finds herself distracted by her father’s handsome young colleague, who, unbeknownst to her, is on a mission to take Oxford’s ancient artifacts back to his homeland in the Middle East.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the death of a suffragette at a railway station comes on the heels of the discovery of a dead baby boy in the post office in 1891 Leeds, Detective Inspector Tom Harper tries to find a connection between the two.
7) Sex wars
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
9) Chances
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
10) No other will do
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Men are optional. That was the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts taught her and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive the women out, Emma is forced to admit they might need a man after all. One who can fight. And there is only one she trusts enough to ask. Malachi Shaw has finally earned the respect he's always craved by becoming an explosives expert for...
11) City of betrayal
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 7
Language
English
Description
"A year has passed since Elizabeth Bates ran her last con. Life has been simpler, although not nearly as exciting, but she has thrown herself into working to get the 19th Amendment ratified by thirty-six states to become the law of the land. Since every other Southern state has already rejected the amendment, it seems unlikely Tennessee will be an exception... but it's their only hope, so the suffragists descend on Tennessee for the final battle....
12) Catching Katie
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Lucie is fuming. She and her band of Oxford suffragists have finally scraped together enough capital to control one of London's major publishing houses, with one purpose: to use it in a coup against Parliament. But who could have predicted that the one person standing between her and success is her old nemesis and London's undisputed lord of sin, Lord Ballentine? Or that he would be willing to hand over the reins for an outrageous price--a night...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times, Lady Frances Ffolkes is an Edwardian-era suffragette who has an uncanny ability to attract danger and romance. When Major Colcombe, a family friend and war veteran, dies under mysterious circumstances, the good Lady Frances discovers that he was working on a manuscript about South Africa bloody Boer War, which reportedly revealed a scandalous mistake that cost many innocent lives. Now, it up to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Frances Doughty is a young sleuth on her first professional case, trying to discover who distributed dangerously feminist pamphlets to the girls of the Bayswater Academy for the Education of Young Ladies. Armed with only her wits, courage, and determination, she finds that even the most respectable denizens of Bayswater have something to hide, and what begins as a simple task soon becomes a case of murder. As election fever erupts and the formidable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alice Sanborn, seventeen years old in October 1852, expects Abolitionist political operative Solomon McBride to court her. Surely he visits for more than her insight and family connections in the Vermont farming village of North Upton! When Almyra Alexander, niece of the local minister, arrives in North Upton, she brings Boston sophistication and advanced political ideas. Temperance! Voting rights for women! Alice wants it all and Almyra's friendship,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club--an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie--memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the fray. Now in...
Language
English
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Description
"Stories From Suffragette City is a collection of short stories from the leading voices in historical fiction that all take place on a single day. The day one million women marched for the right to vote in New York City in 1915. A day filled with a million different stories, and a million different voices longing to be heard. Taken together, these stories from writers at the top of their bestselling game become a chorus, stitching together a portrait...
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