American Fiction Library

New acquisitions by the fiction library since last website update of
January 1, 2009:

Books

Bennett, Vanora Figures In Silk. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
454pp.
"Figures in Silk" follows Isabel, the daughter of silk merchant John
Lambert, as she rises to prominence in the silk trade in 15th century
England. Isabel would rather be a silk merchant like her father than
trapped in a loveless arranged marriage, but a chance meeting with
the Duke of Glouchester convinces her that the way to reach her goals
is to play by society's rules. Widowed shortly after her marriage,
Isabel enters into an apprenticeship with her mother-in-law to learn
the silk trade. Using her sister Jane's court connections, Isabel
becomes a formidable female presence in an industry and world
normally dominated by men.

Jones, Cherry Calvert Proud Cis. London: Robert Hale Limited,
1980. 174pp. What was the mystery of Cecily and Dickon,
left alone in a little manor house in Suffolk? Who is their father?
What were the motives of the strange gentleman they met in the copse?
What awaited them in London town? This is a tale of the end of the
Wars of the Roses, comprising also the strange unsolved disappearance
of the Little Princes in the Tower.

Worth, Sandra The King's Daughter. New York: Berkeley Books,
2008. 401pp. Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth of York trusts that her
beloved fatherýs dying wish has left England in the hands of a just
and deserving ruler. But upon the rise of Richard of Gloucester,
Elizabethýs family experiences one devastation after another: her
late father is exposed as a bigamist, she and her siblings are
branded bastards, and her brothers are taken into the new kingýs
custody, then reportedly killed.


Also, the library will be closed from July 1st to the 20th, as I will
be out of town.

Gilda