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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
India's Uprising against Britian | Pre-Civil War
Date
1800s
Topic
Children | Missionary | Search | Widows
Geographic Region
Asia | India | New York | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Kashmiri Shawl

Author: Dobson, Joanne

A nineteenth-century American missionary widow embarks on a daring quest to find her dark-skinned child. India, 1857: Anna Wheeler Roundtree, missionary wife, flees her husband’s pious tyranny, leaving the safety of the Protestant Mission in which she’s spent most of the past decade. Her timing is bad: the train carrying her to freedom steams into the midst of the brutal Indian Rebellion. She is, however, plucked from danger by Ashok Montgomery, a wealthy Anglo-Indian tea planter. Together they escape the angry mobs and find the shelter of an isolated mountain cave. There, for the first time, Anna learns the true nature of love.

New York City, 1860: Now a successful poet featured in national magazines, Anna Wheeler is astonished to learn that the daughter she bore upon her return was not stillborn, as she was told, but has been kidnapped. When Anna hears the baby described as “dark-skinned,” she realizes that Ashok, the man she’d left behind in the tumult of the rebellion, is the true father, not her blond, fair-skinned husband. In her own racially inflamed nation on the verge of its own war, Anna throws respectability to the wind, learns to take risks, break rules, and trust strangers in a determined search for the little girl. Then a deranged voice arises from her tormented past, making demands that compel her back to India. Anna must confront the evil that set her running in the first place. Will her daring quest for her child, and for the love of her life, end in triumph or in heartbreak?

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Science Fiction

Historical Time Period
Medieval
Date
1200s
Topic
Kings and Queens | Rescues | Time Travel | Widows
Geographic Region
Europe | United Kingdom | Wales
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Daughter of Time: A Time Travel Romance (After Cilmeri 0.5)

Author: Woodbury, SarahPart of a Series: After Cilmeri

Daughter of Time tells the story of a young widow, Meg, healing from the pain of a brief, unhappy marriage, who falls through time into the Middle Ages-and into the arms of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last Prince of Wales. He saves her, and she in turn saves him, thanks to her knowledge of future events. Although powerful forces seek to divide them, by working together, Meg and Llywelyn have a chance to navigate the dangerous and shifting alliances that constantly undermine his rule and threaten the very existence of Wales-and to create a future in which Llywelyn’s death does not come too soon.

Daughter of Time is a stand-alone novel within the world of the After Cilmeri Series. Other books in the series include Footsteps in Time and Prince of Time

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Modern | War of 1812
Date
1800s
Topic
American History | Captives | Rescues | Romance | War | Widows
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Fire Along the Sky (Wilderness #4)

Author: Donati, SaraPart of a Series: Wilderness Saga

With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.

The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah is not the same woman as when she left. For their daughter has come home without her husband and without her son…and with a story of loss and tragedy that she can’t bear to tell. Yet as Hannah resumes her duties as a gifted healer among the sick and needy, she finds that she is also slowly healing herself. Little does she realize that she is about to be called away to face her greatest challenge ever.

As autumn approaches, news of the latest conflict with Britain finds the young men of Paradise—including eighteen-year-old Daniel Bonner—eager to take up arms. Against their better judgment, Nathaniel and Elizabeth must let him go, just as they must let his twin sister Lily, a stubborn beauty, pursue her independence in Montreal. But on the eve of the War of 1812, an unexpected guest arrives from Scotland: It is the Bonners’ distant cousin, the newly widowed Jennet Scott of Carryckcastle. Far from home, Lily and Jennet will each learn the price of pursuing their dreams and the possibility of true love.

But it’s Hannah herself who must risk everything once more—this time to save Daniel, who’s been taken prisoner by the British. As the distant thunder of war threatens Paradise, Hannah may learn to live—and maybe love—again in one final act of courage, duty, and sacrifice.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adults

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Early Modern
Date
1700s
Topic
Death and Loss | Widows | Women's Rights
Geographic Region
Massachusetts | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Widow’s War (Satucket #1)

Author: Gunning, Sally CabotPart of a Series: Satucket

Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler’s wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband’s long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is realized, she finds herself doubly cursed. She is overwhelmed by grief, and her property and rights are now legally in the hands of her nearest male relative: her daughter’s overbearing husband, whom Lyddie cannot abide. Lyddie decides to challenge both law and custom for control of her destiny, but she soon discovers the price of her bold “war” for personal freedom to be heartbreakingly dear.

Includes the fascinating “story behind the story” of The Widow’s War, a map of colonial Brewster, and a driving tour of the village of Satucket.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Early Modern
Date
1700s
Topic
Enemy | Love | Widows
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
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Now Face to Face (Tamworth Saga #3) (Through a Glass Darkly #3)

Author: Koen, KarleenPart of a Series: Tamworth Saga | Through a Glass Darkly

The beloved heroine from Koen’s bestselling Through a Glass Darkly returns in a passionate, unforgettable, romantic tapestry. A widow at age 20, emotionally devastated and financially ruined by the death of her husband in scandalous circumstances, Barbara Devane leaves colonial Virginia for London to confront her enemies and to pursue a deeply satisfying yet dangerous clandestine love.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Reformation | Rennaisance
Date
1500s
Topic
British Literature | King Henry VIII | Kings and Queens | Marriage and Divorce | Queen Katherine of Aragon | Widows
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Constant Princess (The Tudor Court #1)

Author: Gregory, PhilippaPart of a Series: Tudor Court

“I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known…and I will be Queen of England.”

Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Known to history as the Queen who was pushed off her throne by Anne Boleyn, here is a Katherine the world has forgotten: the enchanting princess that all England loved. First married to Henry VIII’s older brother, Arthur, Katherine’s passion turns their arranged marriage into a love match; but when Arthur dies, the merciless English court and her ambitious parents — the crusading King and Queen of Spain — have to find a new role for the widow. Ultimately, it is Katherine herself who takes control of her own life by telling the most audacious lie in English history, leading her to the very pinnacle of power in England.

Set in the rich beauty of Moorish Spain and the glamour of the Tudor court, The Constant Princess presents a woman whose constancy helps her endure betrayal, poverty, and despair, until the inevitable moment when she steps into the role she has prepared for all her life: Henry VIII’s Queen, Regent, and commander of the English army in their greatest victory against Scotland.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Medieval | Middle Ages | Tudor Era in England
Date
1400s
Topic
British Literature | Court Intrigue | Kings and Queens | Tudor Dynasty | Widows
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Award-Winning Book
Goodreads Choice Nominee for Historical Fiction
Format
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Red Queen (The Cousins’ War #2)

Author: Gregory, PhilippaPart of a Series: Cousins' War

The second book in Philippa’s stunning new trilogy, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series – The White Queen – but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses.

The Red Queen tells the story of the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, who, although widowed in her early teens, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for Richard III and ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England.

Through collaboration with the dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret agrees a betrothal between Henry and Elizabeth’s daughter, thereby uniting the families and resolving the Cousins War once and for all by founding of the Tudor dynasty.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Romance

Historical Time Period
Medieval | Middle Ages
Date
1400s
Topic
Power | Romance | Widows
Geographic Region
England | Europe | France
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Lady of the Rivers (The Cousins’ War)

Author: Gregory, PhilippaPart of a Series: Cousins' War

Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of 19, she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a new life for herself.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Romance

Historical Time Period
Medieval | Middle Ages
Date
1000s
Topic
Military and Wars | Normans | Romance | Widows
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book

Conquest, The

Author: Chadwick, Elizabeth

The year is 1066 and the world is about to change. Suddenly life in England is going to be completely different, especially for Ailith, a young Saxon wife. It is the year in which she loses both her husband and young son, and the year in which the Normans come, not as friends, but in search of conquest. Ailith’s grief and despair run so deep that she would have done away with herself and joined her husband and son if a handsome, womanizing Norman, Rolf de Brize, had not happened by in the nick of time. Feeling strangely responsible for the woman whose life he has saved, the normally unreliable Rolf installs Ailith as chatelaine of Ulverton, his English estate. Despite his wife and daughter in France, he and Ailith eventually fall in love and have a daughter, Julitta. But can love truly conquer all – even Rolf’s wife’s decision to take her rightful place as mistress of Ulverton, and Ailith’s discovery of a betrayal at the Battle of Hastings that she can never forgive?

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1st0-300L
2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
4th445-810L
5th565-910L
6th665-1000L
7th735-1065L
8th805-1100L
9th855-1165L
10th905-1195L
11th/12th940-1210L
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