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In Another Time

Jillian Cantor

A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.Love ...

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Published: Mar 2019

Ralph Compton Fatal Justice (Ralph Co...

Ralph Compton

Years ago Marshal Asher Thrall shot mad-dog killer Ben Sharkey. And heÂ's just repaid the favor in spades. With a bullet still in his chest, Ash knows heÂ's a walking dead man. But heÂ's going to make sure Sharkey takes his last st...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2009

Redfield Farm of the Underground Rail...

Judith Redline Coopey

REDFIELD FARM explores the paradox between peoples' professed beliefs and their actions. The main characters are Quaker and live in a solidly Quaker community.Quakers are non-violent yet the actions of the two main characters will go ...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2010

Sharpe's Fury (Richard Sharpe's Adven...

Bernard Cornwell

The year is 1811 and the French appear to have won their war in Portugal and Spain, with Spain fallen to the invader except for the sea-wrapped city of Cadiz. Captain Richard Sharpe has no business being in Cadiz, but an attack on a ...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

To Lie with Lions: The Sixth Book of ...

Dorothy Dunnett

Having wrested his little son from his estranged wife, Nicholas embarks on a business trip to Iceland. As he confronts the challenges of the frozen wastelands, he runs up against his vengeful wife, whose secrets threaten to topple all...

Paperback
Published: Jul 1999

The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories

Michel Faber

The Crimson Petal and the White is one of the best-loved novels of recent years. Now a major BBC TV drama, it captured hearts and left readers desperate for more. In The Apple, Faber returns to Silver Street to find it still teeming w...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2011

Next to Love

Ellen Feldman

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath.  S...

Paperback
Published: May 2012

Race To The Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, A...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Now in paperback, the real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest, told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed 'the world's greatest living explorer' In 1911, Captain Robert Scott and his...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Dec 2004

The Book of Lost and Found: A Novel

Lucy Foley

From London to Corsica to Paris--as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl.Kate Darling's enigmatic mother--a once-famous ballerina--has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her gr...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2015

Desperadoes

Ron Hansen

At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. Desperadoes details his memories of the murders, bootlegging and thievery he and his poss...

Paperback
Published: Feb 1997

A Settling of Accounts

Carolyn Hart

In 1966, Kay Emory is a gentle and respectable antiques dealer; not even her closest friends know about the long-ago life she tries to forget. But when a business trip to London exposes her to a ruthless killer that only she can ident...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2013

The Twelve-Mile Straight

Eleanor Henderson

*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE**An Entertainment Weekly "Must-Read" Book for Fall*From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2018

Code Name Sapphire: A World War 2 Nov...

Pam Jenoff

"A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test in the most unimaginable of circumstances.” –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothec...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2023

Lost Nation

Jeffrey Lent

Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to unveil a startling parable of individualism and nationhood. The novel opens with a man known as Blood, guiding an oxcart of rum toward ...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2003

Fellow Travelers

Thomas Mallon

From the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Truman–a searing new historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era.Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of...

Paperback
Published: May 2008

Transatlantic

Colum McCann

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelo...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2014

Mexico

James A. Michener

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, a...

Paperback
Published: Mar 1994

All the Living

C. E. Morgan

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Aloma is an orphan, raised by her aunt and uncle, educated at a mission school in the Kentucky mountains. At the start of the novel, she moves to an isolated tobacco farm to be with her lo...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2010

Symphony

Jude Morgan

"A deeply empathic exploration of obsession and art, genius and madness. . . . Morgan's ability to bring each character to life is virtuosic." —The Washington Post Book WorldIn 1827 Harriet Smithson, a beautiful young Iris...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2008

The Forbidden Queen

Anne O'Brien

An innocent pawn A kingdom without a king A new dynasty will reign… 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2014

Surviving the Fatherland: A True Comi...

Annette Oppenlander

***An IWIC Hall of Fame Novel*** Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illumin...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2017

Killing Rommel

Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield's quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare— Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of Wa,r and The Afghan Campaign— have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2009

Vivaldi's Virgins

Barbara Quick

Abandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the 'Red Priest,' Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she ca...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2008

Netherwood

Jane Sanderson

Two remarkably different worlds—one of wealth and privilege, the other of poverty and desperation—are about to collide in one shattering moment in this mesmerizing tale of high drama, forbidden love, and families fighting to hold ...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2013

No Less Than Victory of WWII

Jeff Shaara

No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara's soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war's unforgettable and harrowing final act.After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Alli...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civ...

Jeff Shaara

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the ...

Paperback
Published: May 2015

City of Glory of War and Desire in Ol...

Beverly Swerling

Set against the dramatic backdrop of America's second war for independence, Beverly Swerling's gripping and intricately plotted sequel to the much-loved City of Dreams plunges deep into the crowded streets of old New York. Poised betw...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2008

The Golden Age

Gore Vidal

A vivid, kaleidoscopic fictional narrative of American history from 1939 to 1954 follows the seminal events--World War II and the Cold War--and personalities that transformed America from a republic to an empire, as seen through the e...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2001

Stonehenge

Bernard Cornwell

Whatever the period, count on Cornwell to serve up the details on which verisimilitude thrives. Lots of that here, maybe more than required, but it's a sturdy story, too--an ancient sibling rivalry full of enough blood and thunder to ...

Paperback
Published: May 2001

Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Con...

Emma Tennant

As Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice comes to a close, Elizabeth Bennet proudly announces her engagement to Mr. Darcy, boasting, “We are to be the happiest couple in the world.” But after the nuptials, ...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2006
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