Browsing Books by Books Like Ambition and Desire
- Empress of the Night (2014)
- A follow-up to "The Winter Palace" continues the Romanov monarch's reflections on her world-changing...
- The Lilac Tunnel (2014)
- "What if you, as a girl trying to adjust to her new stepfamily, suddenly found yourself in Samantha'...
- The Birthing House (2009)
- Hoping to save his troubled marriage by moving with his wife into a rural home that served as a nine...
- The White Lie (2013)
- Gathering at the family's crumbling Scottish estate to celebrate a matriarch's 70th birthday, the Sa...
- The Woman Who Would Be King (2014)
- A portrait of the longest-reigning woman pharaoh in Ancient Egypt draws on surviving artifacts to co...
- The Destiny of the Republic (2011)
- A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background...
- What There is to Say We Have Said (2011)
- Traces the celebrated literary friendship through their personal letters to each other, a correspond...
- Saturday Night Widows (2013)
- Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning. In this transcendent and infectiously wise mem...
- Sarah's Key (2008)
- On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an ...
- The Vine Basket (2013)
- Life has been hard for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by th...
- Invisible City (2014)
- Investigating the murder of a Hasidic Jewish woman who because of religious laws will be buried with...
- Catch the Wind (2014)
- A modern-day girl finds herself on the shore of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, and as she and ...
- The Time In Between (2011)
- "The Time In Between follows the story of a seamstress who becomes the most sought-after couturiere ...
- The Georgetown Set (2014)
- A history of post-World War II Washington traces the roles of such figures as the Grahams of "The Wa...
