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From the creator of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Cork O'Connor mystery series comes a haunting, atmospheric, conspiracy thriller.
When President Clay Dixon's father-in-law—a former vice president—is injured in a farming accident, First Lady Kate Dixon returns to Minnesota to be at his side. Assigned to protect her, Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen soon falls under Kate's spell. He also suspects the accident is part...

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...

"Olivia Reynolds, proprietor of the First Lady Doll House Shop, stumbles into another mystery involving the history of the White House and the women who have resided there as First Ladies. This time 'Liv' is on the trail of whoever poisoned a friend of hers. As readers of previous novels in the First Ladies Mysteries series know, once Liv is interested in a case, she doesn't let go until she has it solved - much to the consternation of her policeman-husband...

"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents...

"Liv Reynolds is obsessed with keeping the history of America's first ladies alive. So when a Mary Todd Lincoln impersonator winds up dead, Liv takes it personally. Soon she finds herself in a deadly race with the murderer to find a priceless historical document."--Page 4 of cover

"Describes the life and work of U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt"--Provided by publisher.

Text and photographs present the life of Eleanor Roosevelt.

A biography of the woman who served as First Lady for the longest time, and who was the first President's wife to speak out about important issues of the day, by writing newspapers articles and books, giving radio interviews and speeches, and teaching classes.

From the bestselling author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become,...