Emily’s House
Massachusetts, 1869.
Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. At twenty-seven, she’s never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she hasn’t stayed in one place for long since her family fled the Irish potato famine a decade ago. When she accepts a temporary position at the Dickinson family home in Amherst, it’s only to save money for her upcoming trip West to join her brothers in California. She never imagines she will form a life-changing friendship with the eccentric, brilliant Miss Emily or that she’ll stay at the Homestead for the next thirty years.
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Flight of the Sparrow
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676.
Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people.
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Mr. Emerson’s Wife
Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian Emerson faces deep disappointment in her marriage, while being consigned to public silence by social conventions and concern for her children and her husband’s reputation. Drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of close family friend, Henry David Thoreau, she struggles to negotiate the confusing territory between love and friendship while maintaining her moral authority and inner strength.
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