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"The Orchid Empress" by author Anchee Min tells the powerful and complex life story of Zhen Ying, a powerful and ambitious woman who, growing up in a rural Chinese village, tries to find her way in a turbulent period of Chinese history.
Winter 1916, St. Petersburg. Snow is blowing through the streets, and sixteen-year-old Sasha Zeitlin, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish banker, is walking towards a destiny that will take her to the heart of the revolution... A captivating novel about love
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Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.
Armageddon (1964) by Leon Uris is a historical novel set in post-war Berlin during the 1948-1949 airlift, when the Allies supplied West Berlin amidst the Soviet blockade.
In her second historical novel, the contemporary American writer brings us the story of Nefertari, the niece of the former Queen Nefertiti.