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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGrace's Pictures
Cindy Thomson · 396 pages
Longing for Home
Sarah M. Eden · 400 pages
Deeply Devoted
Maggie Brendan · 332 pages
When Catharine Olsen leaves Holland for America as a mail-order bride, she brings along some extra baggage: two sisters, her mother's set of Blue Willow china, and a tragic past. When she arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she promptly marries Peter Andersen and dreams of starting life over in this rugged land. Peter is kind and patient with Catharine and accommodating to her sisters. His mother, howev
Dear Lady
Robin Lee Hatcher · 303 pages
Flight of the Earls
Michael K. Reynolds · 423 pages
When famine strikes her family farm, Clare Hanley decides to leave Ireland for America, despite the fact that her older sister Margaret had similarly emigrated and had never been heard from again.
After a Fashion
Jen Turano · 346 pages
"In 1882, Miss Harriet Peabody is a shop girl with high hopes in New York City, but her love of fashion isn't enough to smooth her launch into fashionable society on the arm of businessman Mr. Oliver Addleshaw, especially in light of their unusual arrangement"-- 1882, New York City. Harriet dreams of the day she can open up a shop selling refashioned gowns to independent working women like hersel
Bees in the Butterfly Garden
Maureen Lang · 507 pages
Raised in an exclusive boarding school among Fifth Avenue's finest, Meg Davenport had all she ever needed ... but none of the things she's wanted most, like family, or dreams of a future other than finding a suitable match. So when her distant father dies, Meg decides to throw etiquette aside and do as she pleases. Especially when she learns that her father was one of the Gilded Age's most talente
Band of Sisters
Cathy Gohlke · 683 pages
With You Always
Jody Hedlund · 368 pages
A Land to Call Home
Lauraine Snelling · 320 pages
Irish Meadows
Susan Anne Mason · 455 pages
"At the renowned Irish Meadows horse farm in New York, 1911, sisters Brianna and Colleen O'Leary struggle to reconcile their own dreams with their father's plans for the farm and his demanding marriage expectations"--
Sixty Acres and a Bride
Regina Jennings
City of Hope
Kate Kerrigan · 369 pages
"When her beloved husband suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides to leave Ireland and return to New York, where she worked in the 1920s. Plunging headfirst into a new life, Ellie pours her passion and energy into running a refuge for the homeless. Her calling provides the love, support, and friendship she needs in order to overcome her grief--until, one day, someone Ellie never thought she'd see
Leaving Ireland
Ann Moore · 515 pages
"Hoping for a better future, Gracelin O'Malley sets sail from her beloved Ireland, a journey that takes her to a world far different from anything she's ever known. After surviving the difficult voyage, she joins her brother Sean, already much changed by his exciting life in Manhattan. She takes a job in a saloon, learning firsthand the harsh reality of immigrant life and the horrors of the Irish
To Win Her Favor
Tamera Alexander · 549 pages
"A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. But the one man who could help her has vowed to stay away from thoroughbred racing forever" --Amazon.com. A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. An Irishman far from home, Cullen McGrath left a once p
Maggie's Door
Patricia Reilly Giff · 167 pages
We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn.Maggie's Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination--the home of Nory's sister Maggie, at 416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America. Patricia Reilly Giff calls upon her long research into Irish history and her great powers as a storyteller i
Waves of Mercy
Lynn Austin · 378 pages
Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctantly at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one t
The Tea Rose
Jennifer Donnelly · 762 pages
East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a cost
The Rose of Winslow Street
Elizabeth Camden
The last thing Libby Sawyer and her father expected upon their return from their summer home was to find strangers inhabiting a house that had been in their family for twenty years. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family from Romania to the town of Colden, Massachusetts, with a singular purpose: to claim the house willed to his father. Since neither party has any intention of giving up their
A Heart Most Worthy
Siri Mitchell · 379 pages
On the eve of World War I, three Italian immigrants--Julietta, Annamaria, and Luciana--dream of love, but each harbors a secret from their families and from each other that could destroy their hopes of finding happiness.
For the Love of Mike
Rhys Bowen · 322 pages
Meeting resistance in her efforts to become a private detective in 1901 New York City, Molly Murphy works to track down the wayward daughter of an aristocratic family and goes undercover in the garment business to expose industrial espionage.
An Unexpected Love
Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller
Sophie Broadmoor adores fancy balls, beautiful gowns, and expensive jewelry. Indeed, she enjoys everything the Broadmoor wealth provides and has earned a reputation as the wildest of the Broadmoor cousins. During a trip to England, she falls head over heels for Wesley Hedrick, a wealthy widower who promises her the world. But Wesley's promises never seem to come true, and soon Sophie finds hers