Category: Historical Fiction

Bart Schneider | Beautiful Inez | Inez Roseman, a noted beauty, has a charismatic husband, two bright children, and a successful career as a lead violinist with the San Francisco Symph

Michelle Cliff | Free Enterprise | In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secret

V. Miner | All Good Women | From Publishers Weekly

On the eve of World War II, four young women, students at a San Francisco secretarial school, become housemates. They are l