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The Beantown Girls

Jane Healey

A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II's brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines.1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She'll work in city hall, marry her fiance when h...

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Published: Feb 2019

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

Thor Heyerdahl

Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled...

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Published: May 1990

Trail of Thread: A Woman's Westward J...

Linda K. Hubalek

Taste the dust of the road and feel the wind in your face as you travel with a Kentucky family by wagon trail to the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In the form of letters she wrote on the journey, Deborah Pieratt describes the scene...

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Published: Jun 1995

The Abbot's Tale: A Novel

Conn Iggulden

From New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden comes a new novel set in the red-blooded days of Anglo-Saxon England. This is the original game for the English throne.In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred...

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Published: Oct 2019

Wars of the Roses: Stormbird

Conn Iggulden

The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden's brilliant new historical series about two families that plunged England into a devastating, decades-long civil war.In 1437, the Lancaster king Henry VI ascends th...

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Published: May 2015

Turn the Stars Upside Down: The Last ...

Terry C. Johnston

For more than a decade one man struck fear in the hearts of U.S. soldiers on the frontier: Crazy horse, the great Oglala Sioux leader, who destroyed Custer at Little Big Horn, fought Crook toe-to-toe at the Rosebud, and outwitted and ...

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Published: Jun 2002

Little Century: A Novel

Anna Keesey

"Anna Keesey's debut novel hums with raw energy: its youthful heroine's, the small town around which the ranches lie, and the new century that's just unfolding....Exhilarating."—The Boston Globe In the tradition of such We...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.: A ...

Lee Kravetz

The Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A GMAMarch Reads Pick “Lee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plot-driven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives in both its winding approach to history and its wonderous story. It...

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Published: Mar 2023

Finding Dorothy: A Novel

Elizabeth Letts

This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud."A breathtaking read that will transport you ove...

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Published: Dec 2019

The Violin Maker's Daughter: Absolute...

Sharon Maas

When the Nazis march onto the cobbled streets of Colmar on November 1st 1940, Josef, a Jewish violin maker, gathers his wife and daughters closely to him and tells them everything will be all right. But one year later, three sharp kno...

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Published: Jul 2019

Girl in Disguise: A Novel

Greer Macallister

"Electrifying...a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride."  ―Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with GunInspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel ...

Madeline Martin

“An irresistible tale which showcases the transformative power of literacy, reminding us of the hope and sanctuary our neighborhood bookstores offer during the perilous trials of war and unrest.” —KIM MICHELE RICH...

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Published: Apr 2021

Three Sisters

Heather Morris

From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story. Against all o...

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Published: Sep 2022

Miss Emily

Nuala O'Connor

The American debut of an award-winning Irish writer that brings to life Emily Dickinson and will enthrall fans of Longbourn and Mrs. Poe Nuala O'Connor's enchanting American debut novel, Miss Emily, reimagines the private life of Emil...

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Published: Jul 2015

Prophecy: An Elizabethan Thriller

S. J. Parris

S. J. Parris returns with the next Giordano Bruno mystery, set inside Queen Elizabeth's palace and steeped in period atmospherics and the strange workings of the occult. It is the year of the Great Conjunction, when the two most powe...

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Published: May 2012

Sacrilege

S. J. Parris

London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. Instead, he is shocked to discover that his pursuer is in fact Sophia Underhill, a young woman with whom he wa...

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Published: Feb 2013

Sisi: Empress on Her Own: A Novel

Allison Pataki

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Philippa Gregory, Paula McLain, and Daisy Goodwin comes a sweeping and powerful novel by Allison Pataki. Sisi tells the little-known story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, the Pri...

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Published: Feb 2017

Midnight at Marble Arch: A Charlotte ...

Anne Perry

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this superbly accomplished new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt adventure, Anne Perry takes us beneath the glittering surface of wealthy Victorian society into a nightmare world of fear and intimidation, where wom...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Secret Orphan

Glynis Peters

Keep her secret Keep her safeOn the 14th November 1940, Hitler's bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved…This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilien...

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Published: Jul 2019

The Lost Queen

Signe Pike

"Outlander meets Camelot" (Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers) in the first book of an exciting historical trilogy that reveals the untold story of Languoreth—a powerful and, until now, tragically forgotten queen of ...

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Published: May 2019

The Lion and the Rose

Kate Quinn

From the national bestselling author of The Serpent and the Pearl comes the continuing saga of the ruthless family that holds all of Rome in its grasp, and the three outsiders thrust into their twisted web of blood and deceit . . . ...

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Published: Jan 2014

After the War Is Over

Jennifer Robson

The International bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel—a tale of class, love, and freedom—in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed.After four years as a mili...

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Published: Jan 2015

Moonlight Over Paris

Jennifer Robson

An aristocratic young woman leaves the sheltered world of London to find adventure, passion, and independence in 1920s Paris in this mesmerizing story from the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France an...

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Published: Jan 2016

Stories from Suffragette City

M. J. Rose

A collection of short stories from a chorus of bestselling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which over a million women marched for the right to vote in New York City, with an introduction by Kristin Hannah Stor...

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Published: Mar 2022

The Muralist

B. A. Shapiro

“Vibrant and suspenseful . . . Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist.” —The Washington Post“B. A. Shapiro captivated us in 2012 with her ‘addictive’ novel The Art Forg...

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Published: Oct 2016

Letters from Yellowstone

Diane Smith

In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram--a spirited young woman with a love for botany--is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The study's leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, assumes she i...

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Published: Jun 2000

The Tiger's Prey: A Novel of Adventur...

Wilbur Smith

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga s...

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Published: Jul 2018

City of God of Passion and Wonder in ...

Beverly Swerling

City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nation struggles to find a compromise between slave and free, but hears the drums of war. T...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Gilded Years

Karin Tanabe

"Tanabe immerses the reader in a world of romance and manners, but also leaves you gripping the edge of your seat…An elegant and extremely gratifying imagining of one remarkable woman's life." —USA TODAY"Think: 'Gat...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Perfume Collector: A Novel

Kathleen Tessaro

A remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritan...

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Published: Feb 2014
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