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1651-1680 of 1801

White Collar Girl

Renee Rosen

The latest novel from the bestselling author of Dollface and What the Lady Wants takes us deep into the tumultuous world of 1950s Chicago where a female journalist struggles with the heavy price of ambition... Every second of every da...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Folded Earth

Anuradha Roy

For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. Here she feels close to the calm heart of the land, where lush foothills meet clear skies. In the...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!"   As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2017

The Kitchen Front: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choircomes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. “This story had me so...

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Published: Feb 2022

The Spies of Shilling Lane: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody—the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite—who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter  Mrs. Braithwaite, self...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2019

Newton Forster OR The Merchant Servic...

Rafael Sabatini

Newton Forster is a troubled young man who survives impressment into the Navy, imprisonment in France, and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining a post on British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thril...

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Published: Mar 1998

The Flight Girls

Noelle Salazar

INSTANT BESTSELLERA WOMAN’S WORLD BEST NEW BOOK“I read well into the night, unable to stop. The book is unputdownable.”—Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author“Heart-breaking, validating, exciting.”—Hypable...

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Published: Jul 2019

Baltasar and Blimunda

Jose Saramago

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisit...

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Published: Oct 1998

Centurion: A Novel of the Roman Legio...

Simon Scarrow

Simon Scarrow as author is a worldwide phenomenon. His newest installment in the bestselling Roman Legion series has been met with near universal acclaim, and has been compared to the best of his contemporaries--Bernard Cornwell, Conn...

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Published: May 2013

Fin & Lady: A Novel

Cathleen Schine

New York Times Bestselling Author of The Three Weissmanns of WestportIt's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his ...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

Susan Holloway Scott

Inspired by a woman and events forgotten by history, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott weaves together carefully researched fact and fiction to tell the story of Mary Emmons, and the place she held in the life—and the heart—...

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Published: Feb 2019

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

During the Crusades, Wilifrid, a young Saxon knight, embarks on a series of adventures to prove himself worthy of the princess Rowena, fighting the Normans and the Templars—and allied with such figures as Robin Hood and Richard th...

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Published: Sep 2009

Waverley: or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (...

Walter Scott

Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first publ...

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Published: Mar 2009

Loyalty

Lisa Scottoline

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one.     Fra...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2023

Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks...

W. G. Sebald

This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child w...

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Published: Dec 2011

Sworn Brother (Viking Trilogy)

Tim Severin

London, 1019: a few months have passed since Thorgils has escaped the clutches of the Irish Church only to find himself at the centre of a capricious love affair with Aelfgifu, wife of Knut the Great, ruler of England and one of the m...

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Published: Aug 2006

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

Jeff Shaara

New York Times bestselling author 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 ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2014

To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl H...

Jeff Shaara

The New York Timesbestselling master of military historical fiction tells the story of Pearl Harbor as only he can in the first novel of a gripping new series set in World War II's Pacific theater. In 1941, President Franklin D. Ro...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2020

The Architect's Apprentice: A Novel

Elif Shafak

From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman EmpireIn her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life ...

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Published: May 2016

The Collector's Apprentice

B. A. Shapiro

"A clever and complex tale of art fraud, theft, scandal, murder, and revenge." --Publishers Weekly In this surprising, noirish page-turner, B. A. Shapiro once again takes readers into the world of art, glamour, and myste...

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Published: Jun 2019

Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard v...

Mary Sharratt

One of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages, Hildegard von Bingen—Benedictine abbess, healer, composer, saint—experienced mystic visions from a very young age. Offered by her noble family to the Church at the age of ...

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Published: Oct 2013

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Lynn Sheene

A stunning debut novel of a young American woman who becomes a spy in Paris during World War II. May 1940. Fleeing a glamorous Manhattan life built on lies, Claire Harris arrives in Paris with a romantic vision of starting anew. But ...

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Published: May 2011

Beneath a Marble Sky

John Shors

In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, overwhelmed with grief over the death of his beloved wife, Mumatz Mahal, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. The story surrounding the...

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Published: Jun 2006

Bellagrand

Paullina Simons

From internationally bestselling author Paullina Simons comes another compelling saga of heartbreak and redemption, and the devastating love story that led to The Bronze HorsemanLove was just the beginning of their journeyGina and Har...

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Published: Mar 2014

Between Earth and Sky

Amanda Skenandore

In Amanda Skenandore’s provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belongi...

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Published: Apr 2018

The Nurse's Secret: A Thrilling Histo...

Amanda Skenandore

From acclaimed author and registered nurse Amanda Skenandore, The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America’s first nursing school, as a young female grift...

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Published: Jun 2022

The Undertaker's Assistant

Amanda Skenandore

Set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans, and with an extraordinary and unforgettable heroine at its heart, The Undertaker’s Assistant is a powerful story of human resilience—and of the unlikely bonds that hold fast even in our d...

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Published: Jul 2019

The Women of Great Heron Lake

Deanna Lynn Sletten

From the author of the bestselling historical novel, Miss Etta.Two strong women, generations apart, living parallel lives.When Marla Madison's husband dies, she realizes her life has become very small. Her daughter is grown and Marla ...

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Published: Sep 2019

The Beginning

Patrick D. Smith

Just as the blacks and whites of a small Southern town think they're moving toward racial equality, civil rights workers arrive and violence erupts. Patrick D. Smith, award-winning author, wrote The Beginning in the 1960s at the heigh...

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Published: May 2009

Birds of Prey

Wilbur Smith

A simple mission. A battle for their lives.  \n\nIt is 1667, and the war between the Dutch and the English continues apace. Sir Francis Courtney, his son Hal and their crew are carried around the southern tip of the African ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2020
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