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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFair Play
Deeanne Gist · 464 pages
"In this historical romance, a lady doctor and a Texas Ranger meet at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Despite their difference of opinion on the role of women, they fight for the underprivileged children in the Nineteenth Ward"--
Like a Flower in Bloom
Siri Mitchell · 363 pages
"In Victorian-era northern England, Charlotte Withersby, daughter of a prominent botanist, attempts to regain her role as his assistant, despite society's expectations and the presence of Edward Trimble, her father's new assistant"--
A Flight of Fancy
Laurie Alice Eakes
Cassandra Bainbridge has twice set aside her scholarly pursuits--once for the London Season and once for her wedding preparations. Love seems a wonderful alternative to study, until disaster strikes. When an accident brings an end to her betrothal, she heads for the country to recover from both her injuries and her broken heart. There she pursues her love for ballooning and envisions a future for
Anchor in the Storm
Sarah Sundin · 393 pages
"Nothing slows Lillian Avery down--not her personal challenges and certainly not America's entry into World War II. She finally has a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston. The demands of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy--even if he is her brother's best friend. During the darkest days of the war, Arch's destroyer hunts German U
A Measure of Mercy
Lauraine Snelling · 367 pages
18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of being a doctor. But will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?
With Every Breath
Elizabeth Camden · 439 pages
"It's 1891 and Trevor and Kate are united in a quest to cure tuberculosis. Can they overcome past secrets and current threats to find hope for a future together?"--
Wedded to War
Jocelyn Green · 473 pages
"This is the first book in a series based on the real life stories of women who lived and worked during the Civil War. The author has done extensive research around the lives of military women during the Civil War for a nonfiction title and became inspired to share their stories in a fictionalized depiction based on her historical research. Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from
A Note Yet Unsung
Tamera Alexander · 430 pages
A master violinist trained in Vienna, Rebekah Carrington manages to wheedle her way into an audition with the newly formed Nashville Philharmonic. But women are "far too fragile and frail" for the rigors of an orchestra, and Rebekah's hopes are dashed because the conductor bows to public opinion. Nationally acclaimed conductor Nathaniel Tate Whitcomb is Nashville's new orchestra leader, and despit
A Fragile Design
Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller · 380 pages
Fleeing the life of the Shakers, Arabella Newberry finds work in the industrial mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. But the taste of freedom she experiences only increases her longing for true equality for all the mill girls. When her ideas put her at odds with the dashing Taylor Manning, she wonders if she has made a huge mistake. Strife between the Irish laborers and the Industrialists continues
The Pursuit of Lucy Banning
Olivia Newport
The Sheriff's Surrender
Susan Page Davis · 319 pages
In 1885 in Fergus, Idaho, Gert Dooley has an unusual job for a woman--test firing guns for her brother the gunsmith--and years of practice have made her an excellent shot. When a murder in town scares her friends, Gert starts the Ladies' Shooting Club to teach the women how to shoot. Their independence upsets the men in town, and Sheriff Chapman finds himself trying to solve a murder and restore p
A Vote of Confidence
Robin Lee Hatcher
In A Vote of Confidence, the stage is set for some intriguing insight into what it was like during 1915 to be a woman in a 'man's world.' Guinevere Arlington is a beautiful young woman determined to remain in charge of her own life. For seven years, Gwen has carved out a full life in the bustling town of Bethlehem Springs, Idaho, where she teaches piano and writes for the local newspaper. Her pas
No Other Will Do
Karen Witemeyer · 455 pages
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'
A Most Peculiar Circumstance
Jen Turano · 428 pages
"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.
Distant Dreams
Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson · 382 pages
Only her father understood her love of the unknown and the promise of distant dreams. Caught up in the excitement of America's westward expansion in 1835, fifteen-year-old Carolina Adams falls in love with the railroad. Living in a society that decidedly looks down on such aspirations in a woman, Carolina longs to study more masculine subjects such as science and advanced mathematics. Fresh out of
Not by Sight
Kate Breslin · 379 pages
"In 1917 London, misguided suffragette Grace Mabry hands a white feather of cowardice to Jack Benningham, secretly serving as an English spy, neither aware of the extent of the danger and betrayal soon to surround them both"--
Love Finds You in Calico, California
Elizabeth Ludwig · 541 pages
"Seamstress Abigail Watts is a young woman ahead of her time as she determines to create the life she wants in a world dominated by men. After hearing news of a silver strike in Calico, California, Abigail packs up her needles and thread and follows her father out West. When he mysteriously dies in the mines, she's left alone and finds herself pressed into a marriage of convenience with livery own
The Maiden of Mayfair
Lawana Blackwell · 409 pages
The Outsider
Ann H. Gabhart · 352 pages
Gabrielle Hope has a special gift of "knowing" the future. When she and her mother join the Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1807, the members embrace her ability, although it sometimes frightens quiet Gabrielle. But when one vision comes true, a chain of events and an unlikely love challenge her loyalty to this chaste community.
Abigail
Jill Eileen Smith · 379 pages
Abigail's hopes and dreams for the future are wrapped up in her handsome, dark-eyed betrothed, Nabal. But when the long-awaited wedding day arrives, her drunken groom behaves shamefully. Nevertheless, Abigail tries to honor and respect her husband despite his abuse of her.Meanwhile, Abigail's family has joined David's wandering tribe as he and his people keep traveling to avoid the dangerous Saul.