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The Island of Doves

Kelly O. McNees

Vivid and enthralling, Island of the Doves tells the story of two women in early nineteenth century America-one typical of her time, one extraordinary for it-who transform each other's lives. Susannah Fraser lives in one of Buffalo's ...

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Published: Apr 2014

Leopard at the Door

Jennifer McVeigh

Set in Kenya in the 1950s against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love from the author of The Fever Tree.  After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and...

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Published: Oct 2017

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Maaza Mengiste

"An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters."—The New York Times Book Review This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in ...

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Published: Jan 2011

Journey

James A. Michener

One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, go...

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Published: Mar 1995

Poland

James A. Michener

In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united,...

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Published: Feb 2015

Return to Paradise

James A. Michener

James A. Michener, the master of historical fiction, revisits the scenes of his first great work, Tales of the South Pacific, the Pulitzer Prize winner that brought him international acclaim. In this sequel collection, Michener once a...

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Published: Jul 2015

Sayonara

James A. Michener

From a great master of historical fiction comes a brilliant tale of love amid war. James A. Michener combines powerful storytelling with gentle sensitivity in this novel of a U.S. army man who falls for a fascinating Japanese woman ag...

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Published: Aug 2015

The Watermen: Selections from Chesape...

James A. Michener

Showcasing the evocative artwork created by John Moll for this special edition, James A. Michener's The Watermen is a unique tribute to the adventurous seafarers of the Chesapeake Bay. Excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning autho...

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Published: Apr 2016

The Last Days of Night: A Novel

Graham Moore

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America—from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of Th...

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Published: May 2017

The Winter Ghosts

Kate Mosse

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sepulchre and Labyrinth-a compelling story of love, ghosts and remembrance. World War I robbed England and France of an entire generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson'...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Fountain of St. James Court; Or, ...

Sena Jeter Naslund

New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the artistic processes and lives of creative women in her groundbreaking literary opus The Fountain of St. James Court; or Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman.Sena Jeter...

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Published: May 2014

Beheld

Tarashea Nesbit

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Book of 2020 Most Anticipated Books of 2020 -- Vogue, Medium, LitHub Honoree for the 2021 Society of Midland Authors Prize Finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Bo...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Wives of Los Alamos: A Novel

Tarashea Nesbit

They arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret--including what their husbands were d...

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Published: Jan 2015

Falstaff

Robert Nye

pstrong"It is a tribute to Nye's achievement that we shall not be able to meet the great original again without thinking of this other Fallestelf or Farstalff."—Anthony Burgess/strongemWinner of the Hawthornden Prize and t...

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Published: Sep 2012

Blue at the Mizzen

Patrick O'Brian

Now that the Napoleonic Wars are over, frigate captain Jack Aubrey faces desertion, near sinking, and brawls with British sailors--all before he reaches his next destination, Chile--where he will help the fledgling country break free ...

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Published: Sep 2000

Richard Temple

Patrick O'Brian

'One of the best novelists since Jane Austen.'—Philadelphia InquirerThe protagonist of this World War II novel is a prisoner of the German army in France. In order to keep himself sane while denying the charges and absorbing the ...

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Published: Nov 2007

May: The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer Ma...

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved — alone — to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serv...

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Published: Aug 2013

Ghost Light

Joseph O'Connor

"This involving novel puts you inside the mind of Molly Allgood, an elderly actress wandering around the brilliantly evoked 1950s London of crumbling lodging houses and uncleared bombsites. Contrasting with the down-at-heel circu...

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Published: Jan 2012

This Must Be the Place (Vintage Conte...

Maggie O'Farrell

Best-selling author Maggie O'Farrell captures a remarkable marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor. Daniel Sullivan leads a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in Califo...

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Published: May 2017

The Book of Madness and Cures: A Nove...

Regina O'Melveny

A brilliant debut about a woman doctor in Renaissance Venice, forced to cross Europe in search of her father.Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has p...

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Published: Jun 2013

Winter Sisters: A Novel

Robin Oliveira

"Stunning. . . Oliveira writes with feeling."—The New York Times Book Review"[An] engrossing story. . . that feel utterly timely."—People, "The Best New Books"New York, 1879: An epic blizzard descends...

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Published: Feb 2019

Coal Black Horse

Robert Olmstead

The Civil War has provided the backdrop for several authors in recent years: Michael Shaara, Robert Hicks, E.L. Doctorow, Howard Bahr, and Charles Frazier, to name a few. Robert Olmstead can take his place among the best of them wit...

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Published: May 2008

Burmese Days

George Orwell

Orwell wrote this novel after his experiences in Burma, where, instead of going to university, he served for five years working for the British government as a member of the Indian Imperial Police--a post he resigned because he felt h...

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Published: Mar 1974

The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence:...

Alyssa Palombo

"In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse th...

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Published: Apr 2017

Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel

Priya Parmar

A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection • An Entertainment Weekly "Must List" Pick • "Prepare to be dazzled."—Paula McLain • "Quite simply astonishing."—Sarah BlakeWhat if Virginia Woolf's ...

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Published: Oct 2015

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Pos...

Allison Pataki

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Marvelous . . . I just had to be there with the Post cereal heiress through every twist and turn.”—Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls “New-mo...

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Published: Feb 2023

Where the Light Falls: A Novel of the...

Allison Pataki

A rich and sweeping novel of courage, duty, sacrifice, and love set during the French Revolution from New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki and her brother Owen Pataki Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the str...

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Published: Apr 2018

The Wind Is Not a River

Brian Payton

The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton\'s gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Last Bookaneer

Matthew Pearl

From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Dante Club, the story of an epic literary heist by a forgotten class of consummate criminals book′a-neer′ (bŏŏk′kȧ-nēr′), n. a literary pirate; an individual capable of ...

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Published: Apr 2016

The Air You Breathe: A Novel

Frances De Pontes Peebles

"What a wonderful book. The Air You Breathe was my oxygen supply." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango StreetThe story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride--and each woman's fear th...

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Published: Jul 2019
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