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In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except that it has a huge, bulbous eye.Remarkable Creatures is the story of Mary Anning, who has a talent for finding fossils, and whose discovery of ancient marine reptiles such as that ichthyosaur shakes the scientific community and leads to new ways of thinking about the creation of the world.Working in an arena dominated by middle-class men, however, Mary finds herself out of step with her working-class background. In danger of being an outcast in her community, she takes solace in an unlikely friendship with Elizabeth Philpot, a prickly London spinster with her own passion for fossils.The strong bond between Mary and Elizabeth sees them through struggles with poverty, rivalry and ostracism, as well as the physical dangers of their chosen obsession. It reminds us that friendship can outlast storms and landslides, anger and jealousy.

Pulitzer Prize winning-author Geraldine Brooks transports the reader to 1660s Martha's Vineyard and Cambridge to tell the dramatic tale of the intertwined destinies of Caleb Cheshahteaumuck, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard, and Bethia Mayfield, a young woman who is struggling to find her own place in the world even as she helps enable Caleb to cross from his world into hers.

The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals. There, Violet is drawn into a society of broderers--women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral, carrying on a centuries-long tradition of bringing comfort to worshippers. Violet finds support and community in the group, fulfilment in the work they create, and even a growing friendship with the vivacious Gilda. But when forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, Violet must fight to put down roots in a place where women aren't expected to grow.

Charlie Lewis is het soort jongen dat je je niet kunt herinneren als je hem op de schoolfoto ziet staan. In de klas is hij geen uitblinker en thuis gaat al zijn aandacht naar de zorg voor zijn werkloze vader. Terwijl zijn klasgenoten reikhalzend uitkijken naar de aankomende zomer, ziet Charlie niets dan donkere wolken aan de horizon. Dan komt de intrigerende Fran Fisher in zijn leven en krijgt Charlie voor het eerst in tijden weer hoop. Om haar beter te leren kennen, wordt hij lid van de serieuze toneelgroep, waar zij Shakespeare-rollen speelt. Deze zomer pakt heel anders uit dan hij zich had voorgesteld.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s division, who conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for which Tiffany will long be remembered. Never publicly acknowledged, Clara struggles with her desire for artistic recognition and the seemingly insurmountable challenges that she faces as a professional woman. She also yearns for love and companionship, and is devoted in different ways to five men, including Tiffany, who enforces a strict policy: He does not employ married women. Ultimately, Clara must decide what makes her happiest—the professional world of her hands or the personal world of her heart.

Susan Vreeland schetst met een verrukkelijk palet van levendige, beminnelijke karakters een schitterend portret van een tijd vol verlangen. Het schilderij: 'De lunch van de roeiers' van Renoir uit 1881 verbeeldt een gezelschap vrienden op een zomers terras aan de Seine. Een rijke schilder, een kunstverzamelaar, een Italiaanse journalist, een oorlogsheld, een gevierd actrice en Renoirs toekomstige vrouw delen dit moment uit 'la vie moderne'. Het verhaal: Persoonlijke crises in zowel de liefde als de kunst weerhouden Renoir er niet van gepassioneerd het meest uitdagende project van zijn leven aan te gaan. Tegen de achtergrond van discussies over schilderstijlen, vertellen Renoir en zeven van zijn modellen hun verhaal.

Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. But with powerful forces for change raging outside the convent, and with the world of the women within threatened by a new arrival, passions, hysteria, and conflict will come to threaten their very survival.

New York Times bestselling author. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house-mother and daughter, servant and lady-in-waiting-before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. The results change all their lives-lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.

London, 1859- By the time Dora Damage discovers that her husband Peter's hands have arthritis, it is too late - their book-binding business is in huge debt and the family is on the brink of entering the poorhouse. But Dora proves that she is more than just a housewife and mother. She resolves to rescue her family at any price - and she finds herself illegally binding expensive volumes of pornography and irrevocably entangled in a web of sex, money and deceit.