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The Rebel Wife

Taylor Polites

This "gloriously gothic"* novel about a young widow trying to survive in the violent world of Reconstruction Alabama is "history with a heartbeat, lovingly described and yet a true page turner" (IProvidence Journal...

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Published: Sep 2012

Leaving Lucy Pear

Anna Solomon

"From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon's spell." —Sue Monk KiddChosen as a must-read book by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPageSet in 1920s New E...

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Published: Jun 2017

Give Me Back My Legions!

Harry Turtledove

Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, is summoned by the emperor, Augustus Caesar, given three legions, and sent to the Roman frontier east of the Rhine. His mission is to subdue the barbarous German tribes where others h...

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Published: Apr 2010

Our Kind of People

Carol Wallace

Fans of Bridgerton will love this "exuberant novel of manners for our own gilded age" (Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra) as we follow the Wilcox family's journey through riches and ruin. Among New York City's Gilded Age ...

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Published: Jan 2022

To Have and to Hoax: A Novel

Martha Waters

Named a Best Romance of April by Goodreads, Popsugar, Bustle, and more In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in an attempt to gain attention--and...

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Published: Apr 2020

Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Po...

Alison Weir

The surprising and dramatic life of the least known of King Henry VIII's wives is illuminated in the fourth volume in the Six Tudor Queens series--for fans of Philippa Gregory, Hilary Mantel, and The Crown. Newly widowed and the fa...

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Published: May 2020

Triple: A Novel

Ken Follett

A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and A Column of Fire As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s...

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Published: Aug 2010

An Empty Cup

Sarah Price

Amish woman Rosanna Zook lost her self-confidence within the confines of a loveless and abusive marriage. In the years spent quietly dealing with her burdens and dutifully caring for others, she forgot her sense of self and ability to...

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Published: Apr 2015

A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjac...

In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planne...

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Published: Sep 2021

Red Sky Over Hawaii: A Novel

Sara Ackerman

Inspired by real places and events of WWII,Red Sky Over Hawaiiimmerses the reader in a time of American history full of suspicion and peril in this lush and poignant tale about the indisputable power of doing the right thing against a...

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Published: May 2020

The Lieutenant's Nurse

Sara Ackerman

"An emotional and heartfelt tale of love and courage." —Chanel Cleeton, bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in HavanaNovember, 1941. She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy ...

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Published: Mar 2019

Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle King...

Andy Adams

Two orphans face starvation on the prairie of northeastern Kansas during the terrible winter of 1885-86. Dell and Joel Wells, redheads who have barely reached shaving age, are about to abandon their dead father's claim on Beaver Creek...

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Published: May 1997

The Liars' Gospel: A Novel

Naomi Alderman

"A visceral retelling of the events surrounding the life of Jesus....The ferocity of Barabbas and Judas seizes the narrative and occupies its center ground." --- Hilary MantelA year after the death of Yehoshuah, a mysterious...

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Published: Apr 2014

The War Girls: A WW2 Novel of Sisterh...

V. S. Alexander

Based on true WWII stories of life in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Occupation and the women who served the Allies as agents and spies... Casting light into one of the darkest periods of World War II, acclaimed author V.S. Alexander&...

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Published: Jul 2022

In the Midst of Winter: A Novel

Isabel Allende

New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. An instant New York Times bestseller, In t...

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Published: Sep 2018

The Neruda Case: A Novel

Roberto Ampuero

Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary.Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international sensation. In...

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Published: Jun 2013

The Virgin's Daughter: A Tudor Legacy...

Laura Andersen

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, The Virgin's Daughter is the first book in a captivating new saga about the next generation of Tudor royals, which poses the thrilling question: What if Elizabeth I, the celebrated...

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Published: May 2015

Heads You Win

Jeffrey Archer

Heads You Win is international #1 bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel, with a final twist that will shock even his most ardent of fans.Leningrad, Russia, 1968: From an early age it is cle...

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Published: May 2019

The Beaufort Bride

Judith Arnopp

As King Henry VI slips into insanity and the realm of England teeters on the brink of civil war, a child is married to the mad king's brother. Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, takes his child bride into Wales where she discovers a land...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Woman on the Orient Express

Lindsay Ashford

Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful jou...

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Published: Sep 2016

Little Woman in Blue: A Novel of May ...

Jeannine Atkins

May Alcott spends her days sewing blue shirts for Union soldiers, but she dreams of painting a masterpiece―which many say is impossible for a woman―and of finding love, too. When she reads her sister's wildly popular novel, Little...

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Published: Sep 2015

Saint Mazie: A Novel

Jami Attenberg

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never ...

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Published: Jun 2016

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty...

Ramona Ausubel

"A timely, sophisticated tale [that] explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster." –O MagazineFrom the award-winning author of the forthcoming Awayland, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England famil...

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Published: Jun 2017

Karolina's Twins: A Novel (Liam Tagga...

Ronald H. Balson

In the tradition of The Nightingale, Sarah's Key, and Lilac Girls, comes a saga inspired by true events of a Holocaust survivor's quest to return to Poland and fulfill a promise, from Ronald H. Balson, author of the international best...

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Published: Aug 2017

A Bend in the Stars

Rachel Barenbaum

All the Light We Cannot See meets The Nightingalein this literary WWI-era novel and epic love story of a brilliant young doctor who races against Einstein to solve one of the universe's great mysteries. In Russia, in the summer of 19...

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Published: May 2020

House of Silence

Sarah Barthel

Oak Park, Illinois, 1875. Isabelle Larkin's future—like that of every young woman—hinges upon her choice of husband. She delights her mother by becoming engaged to Gregory Gallagher, who is charismatic, politically ambitious, and ...

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Published: Dec 2016

Back in Society (Poor Relation Series...

M. C. Beaton

Life is finally looking up for the poor relations. The Prince of Wales' coat of arms gleams over the hotel entrance. All but one of the rooms are filled by the open-handed Prince Hugo and his entourage. The owners have taken on a new ...

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Published: Dec 2018

The Teleportation Accident: A Novel

Ned Beauman

When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen.If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't.But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him...

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Published: Nov 2013

The Visitors: A Novel

Sally Beauman

Based on a true story of discovery, The Visitors is New York Times bestselling author Sally Beauman's brilliant recreation of the hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings—a dazzling blend of fact and fiction that b...

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Published: Jul 2015

The Last Dress from Paris

Jade Beer

The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses... London, 2017. There’s no one Lucille adores more than her grandmother. So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks for Lucille’s assistance with a small matter, she...

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Published: Jun 2022
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