Amanda Skenandore
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Pub. Date
2018
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In Amanda Skenandore's provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging.
On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat....
On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat....
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Pub. Date
2022
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A young female grifter in 1880s New York cons her way into America's first nursing school, but a spate of unexplained murders follows in her wake...
"A spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. This is historical fiction at its finest!"—Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker's Secret
Based on Florence Nightingale's nursing principles, Bellevue...
"A spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. This is historical fiction at its finest!"—Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker's Secret
Based on Florence Nightingale's nursing principles, Bellevue...
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Pub. Date
2021
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The glamorous world of a silent film star's wife abruptly crumbles when she's forcibly quarantined at the Carville Lepers Home in this page-turning story of courage, resilience, and reinvention set in 1920s Louisiana and Los Angeles. Based on little-known history, this timely book will strike a chord with readers of Fiona Davis, Tracey Lange, and Marie Benedict.
Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, The Second...
Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, The Second...
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Pub. Date
2024
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The author of The Nurse's Secret delivers a haunting new book based on true history perfect for readers of Kristin Hannah, Ellen Marie Wiseman, and Donna Everhart. This spellbinding story of a determined female doctor pushed into life as part of a menacing swindler's traveling medicine show in order to support her son is rife with unflinching prose and set against the backdrop of the devastating Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
5) The Undertaker's Assistant: A Captivating Post-Civil War Era Novel of Southern Historical Fiction
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Pub. Date
2019
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An enthralling novel of historical fiction for fans of Lisa Wingate and Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Undertaker's Assistant is a powerful story of human resilience set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans that features an extraordinary and unforgettable heroine at its heart.
"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth...
"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth...