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The Other Typist: A Novel

Suzanne Rindell

A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! Keira Knightly is to produce and star in the movie adaption of The Other Typist! A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…"From the first page [I...

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Published: Apr 2014

Echoes

Danielle Steel

Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indom...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Paris Architect: A Novel

Charles Belfoure

"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." (Malcolm Gladwell) A thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been c...

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Published: Jul 2014

The Painted Girls: A Novel

Cathy Marie Buchanan

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] Paris, 1878. Following the death of their father from overwork, the three Van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without their father's wages, and with what little their mother earns as a...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Miniaturist: A Novel

Jessie Burton

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant....

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Published: Jun 2015

American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo...

Karen Harper

Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess.Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her "The Wedding of the Century" to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to f...

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Published: Feb 2019

An Officer and a Spy (Vintage)

Robert Harris

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fictionA whistle-blower.  A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris.  Alf...

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Published: Oct 2014

Blindspot

Jane Kamensky

"Tis a small canvas, this Boston," muses Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on America's far shores. Eager to begin anew in this new world, he advertises for...

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Published: Dec 2009

If The South Had Won The Civil War

MacKinlay Kantor

The classic novel of speculative history by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville describes what might of happened if General Ulysses S. Grant had been killed in an 1863 equestrian accident, leading to a Confederate victo...

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Published: Nov 2001

Calling Me Home

Julie Kibler

In Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler, eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive Is...

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Published: Feb 2014

Four Spirits

Sena Jeter Naslund

Set in Birmingham during the struggle for civil rights, FOUR SPIRITS, in a series of vignettes, tells the stories of several characters, both black and white, as they adapt to the upheavals in Southern society--or fail to. A New York ...

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Published: Sep 2004

The Murder in the Tower: The Story of...

Jean Plaidy

The dashing Robert Carr is a well-known favorite of King James I. After attracting his attention by falling from a horse in the tiltyard, Robert rises quickly through the ranks. But when the cunning and beautiful Frances Howard comes ...

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Published: Jul 2010

Radio Girls

Sarah-Jane Stratford

The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio…and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC.   London,...

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Published: Jun 2016

Tony's Wife: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani

Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful si...

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Published: Aug 2019

The Blonde Geisha

Jina Bacarr

In Japan in 1892, after a threat to her father's life places her in great danger, Kathleen Mallory is sent to the Teahouse of the Look-Back Tree where she, immersed in the sensual and forbidden world of the geisha, is trained in the a...

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Published: Aug 2006

The Borgias: Two Novels in One Volume...

Jean Plaidy

For the first time in one volume, Jean Plaidy's duet of Borgia novels brings to life the infamous, reckless, and passionate family in an unforgettable historical saga.Madonna of the Seven Hills:  Fifteenth-century Rome: the Borgia fa...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Color of Lightning

Paulette Jiles

In 1863, as the War Between the States creeps slowly yet inevitably toward its bloody conclusion, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson ventures west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their three children. Settling on the ...

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Published: Jun 2010

Becoming Jane Eyre

Sheila Kohler

A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, w...

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Published: Dec 2009

Night of a Thousand Stars

Deanna Raybourn

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn returns with a Jazz Age tale of grand adventure On the verge of a stilted life as an aristocrat's wife, Poppy Hammond does the only sensible thing—she flees the chapel in her weddin...

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Published: Sep 2014

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York

Francis Spufford

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A...

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Published: Feb 2018

Dog Soldiers

Robert Stone

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for...

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Published: Apr 1997

The Temple Dancer of India

John Speed

India, 1657.When Maya, a graceful, young temple dancer with a mysterious past, is sold into slavery, she enters a world of intrigue, violence, and forbidden love. Bought by a Portuguese trader and sold as a concubine to the dissolute ...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Sealed Letter

Emma Donoghue

Miss Emily 'Fido' Faithfull is a 'woman of business' and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the ...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Vintage)...

Ayana Mathis

In 1923, against the backdrop of the Great Migration, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Instead she marries a man who will bring her nothi...

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Published: Oct 2013

Daughters of Rome

Kate Quinn

A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of Four Emperors will change everything-especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome. Elegant and ambitious, Cornelia embodies the essence of th...

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Published: Apr 2011

Fire from Heaven

Mary Renault

During his first twenty years of life, Alexander the Great is torn between admiration, hatred, and love for his father, asserts his independence from his mother's jealous love, is tutored by Aristotle, and becomes king of Macedon. Rep...

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Published: Jun 2002

Golden Lion: A Novel of Heroes in a T...

Wilbur Smith

For readers of Game of Thrones, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler:an epic adventure spanning land and sea...time and distance...courage, revenge, and everything in between.GOLDEN LIONHe saw his father executed in battle. He spent his you...

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Published: Apr 2016

Standard of Honor

Jack Whyte

The season's most eagerly awaited thriller has arrived. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACKKnights Templar order member Sir Henry St. Clair is asked by Richard the Lionheart to join his army and free the Holy Land in a war. Sir Henry reluctantly ...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Indigo Girl: A Novel

Natasha Boyd

The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensi...

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Published: Aug 2018

Darcy and Anne: It is a truth univers...

Judith Brocklehurst

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Lady Catherine will never find a husband or Anne… When a fortuitous accident draws Anne away from Rosings and her overbearing mother's direct influence, she is able to think and act for h...

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Published: Sep 2009
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