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Transatlantic

Colum McCann

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelo...

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Published: Jun 2014

Mexico

James A. Michener

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, a...

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Published: Mar 1994

All the Living

C. E. Morgan

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Aloma is an orphan, raised by her aunt and uncle, educated at a mission school in the Kentucky mountains. At the start of the novel, she moves to an isolated tobacco farm to be with her lo...

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Published: Mar 2010

Symphony

Jude Morgan

"A deeply empathic exploration of obsession and art, genius and madness. . . . Morgan's ability to bring each character to life is virtuosic." —The Washington Post Book WorldIn 1827 Harriet Smithson, a beautiful young Iris...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Forbidden Queen

Anne O'Brien

An innocent pawn A kingdom without a king A new dynasty will reign… 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, ...

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Published: Jan 2014

Coming of the Storm: Book One of Cont...

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

The mass market edition of the first book in a new series about Native American and European first contact by Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael Gear.

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Published: Aug 2010

Surviving the Fatherland: A True Comi...

Annette Oppenlander

***An IWIC Hall of Fame Novel*** Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illumin...

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Published: Mar 2017

Heroic Measures

Jo-Ann Power

Honoring those who have served their country in war, most focus on those who have fought on the battlefields. But one group's heroics under fire have slipped through the pages of history, a group whose blood and sweat were left in ope...

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Published: Sep 2013

Killing Rommel

Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield's quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare— Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of Wa,r and The Afghan Campaign— have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of...

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Published: Jun 2009

Vivaldi's Virgins

Barbara Quick

Abandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the 'Red Priest,' Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she ca...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Empress of Bright Moon

Weina Dai Randel

The time for taking hold of her destiny is nowAt the moment of the Emperor's death, everything changes in the palace. Mei, his former concubine, is free, and Pheasant, the heir and Mei's lover, is proclaimed as the new Emperor, herald...

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Published: Apr 2016

Netherwood

Jane Sanderson

Two remarkably different worlds—one of wealth and privilege, the other of poverty and desperation—are about to collide in one shattering moment in this mesmerizing tale of high drama, forbidden love, and families fighting to hold ...

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Published: Dec 2013

The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civ...

Jeff Shaara

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the ...

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Published: May 2015

The Young Clementina

D. E. Stevenson

Love, Loss, and Love Again...Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one ...

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Published: Jul 2013

City of Glory of War and Desire in Ol...

Beverly Swerling

Set against the dramatic backdrop of America's second war for independence, Beverly Swerling's gripping and intricately plotted sequel to the much-loved City of Dreams plunges deep into the crowded streets of old New York. Poised betw...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Sound of Things Falling

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

* National Bestseller* Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review * One of NPR's 6 Best Books of the Summer * Esquire recommends The Sound of Things Falling"if y...

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Published: Jun 2014

The Golden Age

Gore Vidal

A vivid, kaleidoscopic fictional narrative of American history from 1939 to 1954 follows the seminal events--World War II and the Cold War--and personalities that transformed America from a republic to an empire, as seen through the e...

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Published: Sep 2001

Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Con...

Emma Tennant

As Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice comes to a close, Elizabeth Bennet proudly announces her engagement to Mr. Darcy, boasting, “We are to be the happiest couple in the world.” But after the nuptials, ...

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Published: Aug 2006

The Rose Labyrinth

Titania Hardie

From bestselling British author Titania Hardie comes a mystical fiction debut that takes readers on a romantic journey from Elizabethan England to modern-day London where a centuries-old secret awaits. Before his death in 1609, Queen ...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Ann...

Jean Plaidy

In 1470, a reluctant Lady Anne Neville is betrothed by her father, the politically ambitious Earl of Warwick, to Edward, Prince of Wales. A gentle yet fiercely intelligent woman, Anne has already given her heart to the prince’s ...

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Published: Aug 2007

To Hold the Crown: The Story of King ...

Jean Plaidy

From exile and war to love and loss—every dynasty has a beginning.Henry Tudor was not born to the throne of England. Having come of age in a time of political turmoil and danger, the man who would become Henry VII spent fourteen yea...

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Published: Oct 2008

Triangle

Katharine Weber

By the time she dies at age 106, Esther Gottesfeld, the last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, has told the story of that day many times. But her own role remains mysterious: How did she survive? Are the gaps in her story just...

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Published: May 2007

Park Lane

Frances Osborne

The bestselling author of The Bolter returns with a delicious novel about two determined women whose lives collide in the halls of a pedigreed London town home. When eighteen-year-old Grace Carlisle arrives in London in 1914, she's u...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Exchange of Princesses

Chantal Thomas

Set in the French and Spanish courts of the eighteenth century, this novel is based on a true story about the fate of two young princesses caught in the intrigues and secrets of the moment Philippe d'Orleans, the regent of France, ha...

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Published: Jul 2015

Mary Anne

Daphne du Maurier

The highly anticipated reissue of the du Maurier classics American fans have been waiting for 'Daphne du Maurier has no equal.' Sunday Telegraph ' Likely to rank as the author's best book.' Saturday Review 'This novel catches fire.' N...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Flight of the Falcon

Daphne du Maurier

The author of the bestselling Rebecca delivers a novel of good and evil, in a haunted town in Italy whose distant and terrifying past comes alive again, five centuries later. Twenty-five years ago, Armino Fabbio left his Italian home...

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Published: Mar 2010

Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poi...

Roberta Gellis

Fleeing Rome in the wake of dark rumors of incest, lust, and murder, Lucrezia Borgia finds refuge in a loveless marriage to Alfonso, duke of Ferrara, only to be accused of the poisoning death of Bianca Tedaldo, one of her ladies in wa...

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Published: Aug 2004

The Light Bearer

Donna Gillespie

On the day of her birth, Auriane received a mysterious amulet from a priestess-and a doubleedged prophecy of doom and glory. The daughter of a Germanic tribal chieftain, Auriane witnessed unspeakable horrors committed against her peop...

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Published: Sep 1994

Heading Out to Wonderful

Robert Goolrick

It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village nestled in the valley of Virginia. All he has with him are two s...

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Published: Jan 2013

Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow of M...

Juliet Grey

A captivating novel of rich spectacle and royal scandal, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow spans fifteen years in the fateful reign of Marie Antoinette, France's most legendary and notorious queen.Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eigh...

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Published: Aug 2012
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