Browsing Books by Books Like Illuminations

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (2011)
Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south ...

That Summer (2014)
Inheriting a London house from an unknown relative, Julia begins work on the house at the side of an...

Death Comes to Pemberley (2011)
Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announce...

Becoming Marie Antoinette (2011)
Imagines the early life of the doomed eighteenth-century queen, who at a young age learns from her m...

In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
The best-selling author of Devil in the White City documents the efforts of first American ambassado...

In the Shadow of the Banyan (2012)
Her life of privilege in Cambodia shattered by the outbreak of civil war on the streets of Phnom Pen...

The Girl who Played with Fire (2009)
Two reporters responsible for a sex-trafficking expose are murdered, and the fingerprints on the mur...

Napoleon's Buttons (2004)
Examines the roles that the molecular properties of such items as the birth control pill, caffeine, ...

The Red Garden (2011)
Traces the multi-generational story of wintry Blackwell town through the experiences of such charact...

The Chaperone (2012)
"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-o...

An Impartial Witness (2010)
A murder leads World War I nurse Bess Crawford into the clutches of a wily killer....

Mrs. Poe (2013)
Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpe...

Big Brother (2013)
When her massively overweight brother, a once slim, hip New York Jazz pianist, comes for a visit, Pa...

Catherine the Great (2011)
Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage...

The Queen's Vow (2012)
A tale inspired by the life of the Spanish warrior-queen traces her rise from a defiant daughter of ...

Dead by Midnight (2011)
Refusing to believe that a local death was caused by suicide, mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling ...