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The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla: ...

Lauren Willig

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! In the latest Pink Carnation novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn deadly as a young couple unites to solve a mystery....  In October of 1806, the...

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Published: Aug 2014

Obasan

Joy Kogawa

Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

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Published: Dec 1993

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Susan Vreeland

A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, "done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself" (USA Today) With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of a...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Queen's Governess

Karen Harper

The national bestselling author of Mistress Shakespeare delivers the epic tale of Elizabeth I's most trusted companion-a commoner who lived among royals... Katherine Ashley, the clever, beguiling daughter of a poor country beekeeper,...

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Published: Aug 2011

Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Nove...

Nancy Horan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICKLook for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her m...

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Published: Sep 2014

Read Pink A Bride Unveiled: The Brida...

Jillian Hunter

Miss Violet Knowlton knows the dangerous boy she watches in secret from her window is someone a proper young lady should avoid. Yet temptation overcomes her. Kit scoffs at her offer of friendship-until slowly, her innocent trust open...

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Published: Oct 2011

Train

Pete Dexter

Quietly navigating his way between his hostile patrons and brutal fellow workers in 1953 Los Angeles, African-American caddy Train finds an unexpected ally in a police detective who encourages Train's ambitions and oversees a case inv...

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Published: Feb 2005

The Dream Lover: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY • Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand—which ...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Sheen on the Silk

Anne Perry

New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Perry, the undisputed Queen of Victorian mysteries and the author of an acclaimed series set during World War I, now broadens her canvas with her first major stand-alone book—an epic historic...

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Published: Jan 2011

All the Queen's Players

Jane Feather

At Queen Elizabeth's palace, intrigue abounds. And when a naive girl with a gift for keen observation enters the court, she can hardly imagine the role she will play in bringing England—indeed, the whole of Europe—to the brink of ...

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Published: Apr 2010

America's First Daughter

Stephanie Dray

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha &...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Light of Luna Park

Addison Armstrong

In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney ...

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Published: Aug 2021

A Treacherous Paradise (Vintage)

Henning Mankell

In 1904, Hanna Renstrom boards a ship bound for Australia hoping to escape the cold and poverty that have dominated her life in Sweden. Her harrowing journey lands her in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white col...

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Published: May 2014

The Queen of Bedlam

Robert McCammon

His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witchhunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as 'deeplysatisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul.' Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero...

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Published: Oct 2007

Once We Were Brothers

Ronald H. Balson

The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust.Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenl...

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Published: Oct 2013

Checkmate: Sixth in the Legendary Lym...

Dorothy Dunnett

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in...

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Published: Sep 1997

Troy: Fall of Kings

David Gemmell

Darkness falls on the Great Green, and the Ancient World is fiercely divided.On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to...

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Published: Mar 2009

Cilka's Journey

Heather Morris

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her — and condemned her.Cilka is just sixteen years old whe...

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Published: Sep 2020

The Room on Rue Amélie

Kristin Harmel

A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine—perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Ha...

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Published: Oct 2018

Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor...

C. J. Sansom

The clever plotting and brilliantly evoked world of Heartstone-the fifth Matthew Shardlake mystery from bestselling author C. J. Sansom-will dazzle both mystery fans and Tudor history buffs. Summer 1545. A massive French armada is t...

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Published: Jan 2012

People of the Longhouse (North Americ...

W. Michael Gear

Six hundred years ago in what would become the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, five Iroquois tribes were locked in bitter warfare. From the ashes of violence, a great Peacemaker was born…Young Odion and his littl...

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Published: Feb 2011

One for the Blackbird, One for the Cr...

Olivia Hawker

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families ...

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Published: Oct 2019

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 Waiting Time

Eugenia Price

A new edition of Eugenia Price's final novel, presented by Turner PublishingFrom one of America's best-loved storytellers, The Waiting Time is an ambitious, romantic, historically rich epic, sure to delight new and loyal readers alike...

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Published: Nov 2017

Eternal

Lisa Scottoline

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. Wh...

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Published: Feb 2022

The Winthrop Woman

Anya Seton

"The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment — living history. Really good fictionalized history [like this] often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records." – Chicago TribuneIn 1631 Elizabeth...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Fountain Overflows

Rebecca West

The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father?s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey,...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Summer Country

Lauren Willig

"Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor " - Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the traditio...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Blessing Stone

Barbara Wood

Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the de...

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Published: Jan 2004

Circe

Madeline Miller

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, The Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon,Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor and Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste,...

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Published: Feb 2019
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