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The Book Spy: A WW2 Novel of Libraria...

Alan Hlad

An American librarian. A Portuguese bookseller. A WWII mission to change the tide of the war. Inspired by true stories of the heroic librarian spies of WWII and spanning from the New York Public Library to Portugal’s city of ...

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Published: Jan 2023

The Long Flight Home

Alan Hlad

A USA TodayBestseller  Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II,The Long Flight Homeis a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of lov...

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Published: Apr 2020

Mortal Arts

Anna Lee Huber

Scotland, 1830. Lady Kiera Darby is no stranger to intrigue-in fact, it seems to follow wherever she goes. After her foray into murder investigation, Kiera must journey to Edinburgh with her family so that her pregnant sister can be c...

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Published: Sep 2013

Jane Austen's First Love

Syrie James

INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS  Fifteen-year-old Jane Austen dreams of three things: doing something useful, writing something worthy, and falling madly in love. When she visits her brother in Kent to celebrate his engagement, she meets...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Scarlet Contessa of Italian Renai...

Jeanne Kalogridis

What Philippa Gregory has done for Tudor England, Jeanne Kalogridis does for Renaissance Italy. Her latest irresistible historical novel is about a countess whose passion and willfulness knew no bounds—Caterina Sforza Daughter of th...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Light Over London

Julia Kelly

Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, this entrancing story "is a poignant reminder that there is no limit to what women can do. A nostalgic, engrossing read" (Julia London, New...

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Published: Sep 2019

The Outcasts: A Novel

Kathleen Kent

A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west.It's the 19th century on the GulfCoast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping th...

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Published: Oct 2014

The King's Deryni (A Novel of the Der...

Katherine Kurtz

The thrilling conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Katherine Kurtz's epic Childe Morgan trilogy.  Alaric Morgan has one clear purpose in life—to stand alongside the King of Gwynedd. The old king knew that his successor w...

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Published: Nov 2015

King's Captain: An Alan Lewrie Naval ...

Dewey Lambdin

Promoted to frigate captain after proving himself in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, Alan Lewrie soon finds himself under Spanish guns again as he confronts a mutiny that rages through the British fleet and the reappearance of an old...

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Published: Sep 2002

Sawbones

Melissa Lenhardt

Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennett is destined to hang... unless she can disappear.With the untamed territory of Colorado as her most likely refuge, she packs her physician's kit and heads West. But even with a new li...

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Published: Apr 2017

Storm Coming: A novel of the Civil Wa...

Jack W. Lewis

Based on a true story, this first of a trilogy of Civil War novels chronicles the fateful events of 1861 in western Virginia, as a young man learns to cope with his world turned upside down by war. It is April of 1861. The shocking e...

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Published: May 2017

Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray

Dorothy Love

A general's wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucible of Civil War.Mary Anna Custis Lee is a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and heire...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Owl Killers

Karen Maitland

From the author of Company of Liars, hailed as "a jewel of a medieval mystery"* and "an atmospheric tale of treachery and magic,"** comes a magnificent new novel of an embattled village and a group of courageous wo...

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Published: Jul 2010

Belle Cora

Phillip Margulies

In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's f...

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Published: Oct 2014

Folly and Glory (Berrybender Narrativ...

Larry McMurtry

As this final volume of The Berrybender Narratives opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whol...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Fever Tree

Jennifer McVeigh

"There is nothing more exciting than a new writer with a genuine voice. I loved it." -Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey Frances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, has been forced to ab...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Source

James A. Michener

In his signature style of grand storytelling, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the Holy Land, thousands of years ago. By exploring the lives and discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Mich...

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Published: Mar 1986

The Only Life That Mattered: The Shor...

James L. Nelson

Fed up with an outlaw existence, Calico Jack Rackam swears off the pirate life, until he meets Anne Bonny, a woman who would as soon stab a man as give him a good tumble--that is, unless he's a pirate. Soon Jack finds himself out on t...

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Published: Oct 2004

The Far Side of the World

Patrick O'Brian

The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Little do he and Maturin know ...

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Published: Apr 1992

The Big Laugh

John O'Hara

A devastating account of the movie world's Golden Age, in all its phony power and glory. The famously sharp-edged social realism and always on-the-money dialogue of the late novelist John O'Hara (1905-1970) are brought to bear in a st...

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Published: Oct 1997

The Map of Time

Felix J. Palma

Characters real and imaginary come vividly to life in this whimsical triple play of intertwined plots, in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary cl...

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Published: Jun 2012

A Darker Reality: An Elena Standish N...

Anne Perry

A personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry. “An absorbing and calculating th...

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Published: Sep 2022

The Poison Thread

Laura Purcell

A thrilling Victorian gothic horror tale about a young seamstress who claims her needle and thread have the power to kill"A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its center... Reminded me of Alias Grace."—Kiran M...

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Published: Jun 2019

Amy Snow

Tracy Rees

Winner of the UK's Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally...

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Published: Jun 2016

Last Citadel of the Battle of Kursk

David L. Robbins

Soviet and German forces prepare for a vicious standoff with their powerful armored divisions, desperate for a victory that could determine the fate of the European theater of World War II, in an epic fictional account of the pivotal ...

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Published: Apr 2004

Temptation in a Kilt

Victoria Roberts

p"Filled with everything I love most about Highland romance."—Melissa Mayhue, award-winning author of emWarrior's Redemption/emShe's On Her Way to Safety/strongt's a sign of Lady Rosalia Armstrong's desperation that she's ...

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Published: Sep 2012

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Jennifer Robson

From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France—comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to ...

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Published: May 2017

The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Weddin...

Jennifer Robson

"The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkFrom the internationally bestselling auth...

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Published: Dec 2018

Wolf Totem

Jiang Rong

China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market).. Part peri...

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Published: Mar 2009

Ravenscliffe

Jane Sanderson

For fans of Downton Abbey . . . The peaceful beauty of the English countryside belies the turmoil of forbidden love and the apprehension of a changing world for the families of NetherwoodYorkshire, 1904. On Netherwood Common, Russian...

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Published: Jan 2014
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