Isabel Allende   Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for...

Alan Brennert This companion tale to Moloka'i tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa—was forced...

Hazel Grantz A biography of Henrietta Szold, founder and first president of Hadassah. June 1, 1995 by Jason Aronson, Inc.

Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic RevolutionSattareh Farman FarmaianAn intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past...

Marina Fiorato First published January 1, 2011

Laini Taylor Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty...

Duncan Sprott This title is set in Egypt, 279 BC. Ptolemy II Philandelphus, unconcerned with stately affairs, prefers to think about science, concubines and feasting. His reptilian sister returns to...

Benazir Bhutto Beautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced...

Juliet Marillier Juliet Marillier's intensely romantic first novel Daughter of the Forest takes the reader to an Ireland on the edge where history and fairy tale meet. Sorcha, seventh child of a...

Jacki LydenDaughter of the Queen of Sheba: A MemoirAs an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the...

Louise Fein For fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, a spellbinding story of impossible love set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime.As the dutiful daughter of a high-ranking...

Anne Easter Smith History tells us that the intelligent, wealthy, and powerful Margaret of York had everything any woman could want, except for love. The acclaimed author of A Rose for...