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My Name Is Resolute

Nancy E. Turner

Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular novels These Is My Words, Sarah's Quilt, and The Star Garden. Now, Turner has written the novel she was born to write, this exciting and heartfelt story of a woman st...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Boleyn Reckoning

Laura Andersen

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, The Boleyn Reckoning heralds the triumphant conclusion of Laura Andersen's enthralling trilogy about the Tudor king who never was: the son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn—Henry IX�...

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Published: Jul 2014

The Color of Secrets

Lindsay Ashford

Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever…In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead. Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of ...

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Published: Apr 2015

Down the Common: A Year in the Life o...

Ann Baer

Ann Baer has produced a sensitive, knowledgeable month-by-month account of the hardships suffered by Marion and Peter Carpenter, set from March through the following February of one year of their struggle for existence in Medieval En...

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Published: Oct 1998

A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry

Leaving behind his family in Dublin in order to join the Allied forces during World War I, eighteen-year-old Willie Dunne survives the horrors of war through his correspondences with loved ones and his friendships with fellow soldiers...

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Published: Feb 2006

The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel

Marie Benedict

The instant New York Times bestsellerShe possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austri...

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Published: Sep 2019

Secrets of the Tudor Court

D. L. Bogdan

When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress Anne Boleyn, she is ecstatic. Everything Anne touches seems to turn to gold, and Mary is certain...

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Published: May 2010

Above the Bay of Angels

Rhys Bowen

"…Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it!" —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novelsA single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria's roy...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Sand-Reckoner (Tom Doherty Associ...

Gillian Bradshaw

The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the world's greatest minds, is heaven to...

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Published: Jun 2001

The Orphan Train

Steve Brigman

TEN-YEAR-OLD JAMES CANNOT IMAGINE THE FATE THAT AWAITS HIM AND THE PRETTY LITTLE GIRL WHO SITS NEXT TO HIM ON THE INFAMOUS ORPHAN TRAIN."...a superb, coarse-grained voice that makes you want more...the Ozark's new narrator who wi...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Handsome Road (Plantation Trilogy...

Gwen Bristow

New York Times-bestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil War-era Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstress-and the men they love-whose lives are irrevocably changed as the O...

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Published: May 2014

The Aftermath

Rhidian Brook

Set in post-war Germany, the international bestseller The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook is a stunning emotional thriller about our fiercest loyalties and our deepest desires. In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her ...

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Published: Aug 2014

The Night Tiger: A Novel

Yangsze Choo

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." ―Kirkus (starred review)An utterly transporting...

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Published: Jan 2020

Muhammad

Deepak Chopra

In this riveting novel, beloved international bestselling author Deepak Chopra captures the spellbinding life story of the great and often misunderstood Prophet. Islam was born in a cradle of tribal turmoil, and the arrival of one G...

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Published: Jun 2011

A Hope Divided

Alyssa Cole

The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor—but for one scientist spy and her philosopher soldier, war could bind them together . . .  For all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with c...

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Published: Nov 2017

The Throwaway Children

Diney Costeloe

Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an or...

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Published: May 2016

The Keeper of Happy Endings

Barbara Davis

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her fa...

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Published: Oct 2021

White Rose, Black Forest

Eoin Dempsey

An Amazon Charts bestseller.In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter....

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Published: Mar 2018

The Boston Girl

Anita Diamant

New York Times bestseller! An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told "with humor and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine" (People)—from t...

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Published: Aug 2015

The Bartender's Tale

Ivan Doig

A national bestseller, the story of "a boy's last days of youth and a history his father can't leave behind" (The Daily Beast).Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lo...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Poisoned Crown (The Accursed King...

Maurice Druon

'This was the original game of thrones' George R.R. MartinNo man is impervious to the poisons of the crown…Having murdered his wife and exiled his mistress, King Louis X of France becomes besotted with Princess Clemence of Hungary a...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Queen's Sorrow

Suzannah Dunn

A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Glassblower

Petra Durst-Benning

In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daugh...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Unfaithful Queen: A Novel of Henr...

Carolly Erickson

From New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII, a novel about Catherine Howard, wife of Henry's later years Amid the turbulent, faction-ridden late reign of the fearsome Henry, eager high-spirited Catherine H...

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Published: Jul 2013

Jacob's Oath

Martin Fletcher

As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. But Jacob is consumed with hatred an...

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Published: Nov 2014

A Dangerous Fortune

Ken Follett

In 1866 tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School when a mysterious accident takes the life of a student. Among the student's circle of friends are Hugh Pilaster; Hugh's older cousin Edward, dissolute heir to the Pilaster ban...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2012

The Girl in the Glass

Jeffrey Ford

The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his sa...

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Published: Aug 2005

Midnight in Europe: A Novel

Alan Furst

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERParis, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called &q...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John)

Diana Gabaldon

Includes a preview of the new novel in the Outlander series."This could be the worthy Lord John Grey's breakout novel, as readers are treated to large dollops of Outlander hero Jamie Fraser. . . . The strong chemistry between the...

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Published: May 2012

The Battle of the Crater

Newt Gingrich

New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen take readers to the center of a nearly forgotten confrontation, shedding light on the tragic errors and unexpected heroism of one epic Civil War battleground Ju...

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Published: May 2012
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