"Tanabe immerses the reader in a world of romance and manners, but also leaves you gripping the edge of your seat…An elegant and extremely gratifying imagining of one remarkable woman's life." —USA TODAY"Think: 'Gat...
The Perfume Collector: A Novel
Kathleen TessaroA remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritan...
It is the spring of 1767, and the vengeful Erasmus Kemp has had the mutinous sailors of his father's ship brought back to London to stand trial on piracy charges. Much to Kemp's dismay, the Irish fiddler Sullivan has escaped, and retr...
When Kendra first visits her ailing grandmother, Ella has only one request: that Kendra write her story down, before she forgets…In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella's life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the bea...
Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving ...
Marianne Wiggins writes about a man named Ray Foster, who fights in World War I and then returns home to the woman he loves--Opal, daughter of the local glassblower--with whom he lives through the staggering events of mid-20th-century...
Dawnlands: A Novel (3) (The Fairmile ...
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In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history.The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty's royal family—all with the except...
Winter of the World: Book Two of the ...
Ken FollettKen Follett follows up his #1 New York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with a brilliant, page-turning epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age.br Ken Follett's Fall of Giants, the first novel in...
A fictional autobiography of Elizabeth I of England combines historical accuracy and exciting, fully drawn characters to give an accurate and insightful behind-the-scenes look at the world in 1600 as the great queen recalls her father...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl's strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly unc...
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey Mat...
Patrick O'BrianThe 14th novel in O'Brian's highly acclaimed series, the Aubrey/Maturin novels, about a captain in the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. In this installment, Jack and Stephen must deal with not only a tribe...
Desolation Island (Patrick O'Brian)
Patrick O'BrianCaptain Jack Aubrey is sailing the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts and a Dutch man-of-war to windward. Undermanned and outgunned, the Leopard sails for her life into the freezing Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas...
Sergeant Richard Sharpe is the sole survivor of a murderous attack led by Major William Dodd, a cold-blooded English turncoat fighting for the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation. Determined to avenge the deaths of his comr...
Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce by marrying the English king's beloved illegitimate daughter, Joa...
Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin, and Villanelle, the red-haired da...
The King's Favorite of Nell Gwyn and ...
Susan Holloway ScottThe acclaimed author of Duchess and Royal Harlot returns with the unforgettable story of a king's last love and London's darling…BR>Nell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she pretend to be. Blessed with impudent wit and saucy bea...
A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust a...
After Janie Newman's half sister Laurel steals her boyfriend, Jamie leaves New York and the humiliation behind for the island of Seaside Cove, North Carolina. But the cozy cottage she booked turns out to be a rundown bungalow. And she...
Special Ops (Brotherhood of War)
W. E. B. GriffinBestselling author W.E.B. Griffin, whose novels about various branches of the military have won him battalions of fans, returns to the Brotherhood of War series with this crackling yarn. A detachment of Special Forces hotshots team...
The Second Empress: A Novel of Napole...
Michelle MoranNational bestselling author Michelle Moran returns to Paris, this time under the rule of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte as he casts aside his beautiful wife to marry a Hapsburg princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir After the...
The Singing Sword: The Dream of Eagle...
Jack WhyteThis second installment in The Camulod Chronicles details the forgotten Roman soldiers whose fierce grit and determination, even in the face of abandonment by their own empire, shaped the Arthurian legend. This is a prehistory of Came...
The three met in the aftermath of San Franciscos devastating 1906 earthquake--the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building one of the worlds l...
Sharpe's Siege (#9) (Sharpe's Adventu...
Bernard CornwellA classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814. The invasion of France is under way, and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe. He and a small force of Riflemen are to capture ...
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all of those? Biblical references to her are tantalizingly brief, but we do know that she was the first person to whom the risen Christ appeared-and the on...
Love and War (North and South Trilogy...
John JakesThe Hazards and Mains are wrenched apart by battle and swept together by passion during the searing years of the Civil War. 2 cassettes.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Rando...
Lisa SeeLily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century C...
Sharpe's Regiment (#8) (Sharpe's Adve...
Bernard CornwellMajor Sharpe should be fighting the French -- but his worst enemies are in England...Major Richard Sharpe's men were in mortal danger -- not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements could be brough...
Sharpe's Sword: Sharpes's novel # 14:...
Bernard CornwellColonel Leroux is killing Britains most valuable spies, and its up to Richard Sharpe to stop him. Thrust into the unfamiliar world of political and military intrigue, Sharpe must tangle with the beguiling yet calculating La Marquesa.