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The Widow's War (Satucket, Bk 1) by Sally Gunning

In a small Cape Cod village in 1761, one woman is about to engage in the struggle of her life, defying her family, friends, and neighbors in a fight for her freedom that resonates even today. . . When was it that the sense of trouble grew to fear, the fear to certainty? When she sat down to... more

In a small Cape Cod village in 1761, one woman is about to engage in the struggle of her life, defying her family, friends, and neighbors in a fight for her freedom that resonates even today. . . When was it that the sense of trouble grew to fear, the fear to certainty? When she sat down to another solitary supper of bread and beer and pickled cucumber? When she heard the second sounding of the geese? Or had she known that morning when she stepped outside and felt the wind? Might as well say she knew it when Edward took his first whaling trip to the Canada River ... Lyddie has long been the wife of Edward Berry, a well-liked and successful whaler in Satucket Village, Massachusetts. Married for twenty years, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaling wife -- her husband's sudden departures, when whales are sighted in the bay; his long absences at sea, when she must run the house herself; the constant fear that one day Edward will simply not come home. But when the unthinkable does happen and Edward is lost at sea, Lyddie finds that she must bear not only the grief of losing her husband but also the insult of losing her autonomy. As a widow, she finds herself cast into society's cellar, her property and rights now at the whim of her nearest male relative, who happens to be her daughter's husband. With her son-in-law -- who was never Lyddie's first choice for her daughter -- implacable and hostile, Lyddie realizes she cannot live under his roof and under his decrees. Refusing to bow to both her "guardian" and the societal and legal pressures brought to bear upon her, Lyddie finds that defying one rule emboldens her to defy another ... and another. As she moves back into the house she shared with Edward -- the house she is entitled to use only one-third of now -- and begins to figure out how she'll make a living on her own, she finds that her defiance earns her nothing but the abuse of friends and neighbors and puts her home and her family at risk. Ultimately, Lyddie must decide how much she values her personal freedom and how willing she is to become estranged from those she loves. While conjuring the hearths and salt air of eighteenth-century colonial America, The Widow's War captures a timeless human longing. With rich, realistic characters, Sally Gunning weaves a tale of a woman's journey to understand herself and her world, and her place in that world. Honest and moving, The Widow's War is a stunning work of literary magic, a spellbinding tale from an assured and gifted writer.

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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose

A TRUE CELEBRATION OF HEROISM AND BRAVERY From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of World War II in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. The author himself drew this authoritative narrative... more

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A Sudden Light by Garth Stein

Twenty-three years after the fateful summer of 1990, Trevor Riddell recalls the events surrounding his fourteenth birthday, when he gets his first glimpse of the infamous Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant whole... more

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American Rust by Philipp Meyer

Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation -- as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love -- that arise from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to prison, it is the story of two... more

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The Removed by Brandon Hobson

In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer’s in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of... more

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Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Edmund Morris

Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism.... more

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Hark! (87th Precinct, Bk 54) by Ed McBain

Ed McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare, directing the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a future crime -- if only they can figure out what he means. The 87th Precinct gets a visit from one of the... more

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Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen

A magnificent tapestry of a grand and glorious era As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates.Through a Glass Darkly will sweep you away to the splendors of a lost era. Like Gone with the Wind, it is rich with characters so vivid -- from aristocrats toscoundrels--they... more

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Full Dark House (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit, Bk 1) by Christopher Fowler

Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler... more

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The Sisters Mortland by Sally Beauman

A powerful and haunting story about three sisters and the tragedy that becomes the center of their lives from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sally Beauman.Summer 1967: In the heart of rural Suffolk, 13-year-old Maisie is at her decaying family home, a former medieval abbey. As an... more

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Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato

Fear doesn't come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look right at the things nobody else can bear to mention: for example, the fact that her beloved older sister is dead, pushed in front of a train by a man still on the loose. Her grief-stricken parents have basically been... more

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The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the ...

As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art. ... more

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Night Watch (Watch, Bk 1) by Sergei Lukyanenko & Andrew Bromfield (Translator)

The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story. Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov. Living among us... more

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The Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

The second installment of the phenomenal Russian quartet The Night Watch vampire novels set in a richly realized post-Soviet Moscow. The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series, The Day Watch begins where The Night Watch left off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the... more

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Twilight Watch (Night Watch, Bk 3) by Sergei Lukyanenko

Living among us are the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. A thousand-year treaty has maintained the balance of power between the two sides, but when a renegade Other absconds with a fabled book of... more

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Night of the Vampires (Vampire Hunters, Bk 2) by Heather Graham

As a soldier, Cole Granger fights to restore peace to a world divided by war and evil. His extraordinary talents are enlisted to prevent the president's horrific premonition from becoming reality. Nothing -- and no one -- will stop him from fulfilling his duty. Especially the mysterious... more

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Bride of the Night (Vampire Hunters, Bk 3) by Heather Graham

She's the vampire that could destroy a nation. At least, that's what Pinkerton detective Finn Dunne thinks of Tara Fox. Capturing her aboard a ship sneaking its way northward, he's convinced she's been sent to take out President Lincoln. While she's certainly the most... more

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Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

In this darkly riveting debut novel -- a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging—an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared,... more

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Loot by Aaron Elkins

April 1945: In the last convulsive days of World War II a convoy of Nazi trucks loaded with Europe's greatest art treasures winds its way through the Alps toward a cavernous Austrian salt mine. With the Allies closing in and chaos erupting, a single truck silently disappears into a mountain... more

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The Mocking Program (Angel Cardenas, Bk 2) by Alan Dean Foster

Inspector Angel Cardenas has seen murdered corpses like George Anderson's, but never a case like this. The victim's ID doesn't match his DNA, Anderson's wife and preteen daughter, Katla, are missing, their home has been turned into a time bomb-and mobs from three continents are... more

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Green Darkness by Anya Seton

This unforgettable story of undying love combines mysticism, suspense, mystery, and romance into a web of good and evil that stretches from 16th-century England to the present day. Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems... more

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The Ladies of Mandrigyn (Sun Wolf and Starhawk, Bk 1) by Barbara Hambly

Swords Against The Wizard The City of Mandrigyn was conquered and its men enslaved in the foul mines of the evil Wizard King, Altiokis. Now the women of the city; led by Sheera Galernas, had come to hire the mercenary an ally of Captain Sun Wolf. But Sun Wolf was too wise to become involved... more

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The Concubine by Norah Lofts

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The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

It is England, in the fourteenth century, the old feudal order is starting to crack but the whim of a lord or the pleasure of a bishop can still seal nearly anyones fate. For Lady Kathryn of Blackingham Manor, a widow desperately trying to safeguard her holdings, it is a time made both sweeter... more

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Figures in Silk by Vanora Bennett

In 1471, merchant John Lambert marries off his two beautiful daughters. The elder, Jane Shore, soon begins a notorious liaison with King Edward IV. The other sister, industrious and clever Isabel, is wed to the scion of a wealthy silk dynasty -- and faces a monumental challenge when her husband... more

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Sorrow Without End (Medieval Mystery, Bk 3) by Priscilla Royal

As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory. The dagger in the man's chest is engraved with a strange, cursive design, and the body is wrapped in a crusader's cloak. Was this the... more

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Tyrant of the Mind (Medieval, Bk 2) by Priscilla Royal

A nun and a monk defy death and dishonor at her family's Welsh fortress... In the winter of 1271, Death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border. When the Grim Reaper touches the beloved grandson of the castle lord, Baron Adam sends for his daughter, Prioress Eleanor... more

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Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean

What was it really like when the heavens opened and the world drowned? Everyone knows the story of the Flood: The man called on by God to build an ark. The animals that came on board two by two. The rain that fell for forty days and forty nights. But what about the rest of the story? What... more

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In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake

The offspring of a whore mother and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from their home in the Florida swamplands by a sching parent's treacheries, and by a shameful, horrific act that will haunt their dreams for the rest of their days. Joining the swelling ranks of the... more

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Rivals for the Crown by Kathleen Givens

1290: Turmoil erupts when the seven-year-old queen of Scotland perishes en route to claim the crown. Two bitter foes -- John Balliol and Robert Bruce -- emerge as possible successors, but England's Edward I has his own designs on Scotland. In London, Edward has expelled all Jews from his... more

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The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale

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Being Polite to Hitler: A Novel by Robb Forman Dew

After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield is tired of the routine. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what has so long defined her? Often eloquent, sometimes blunt, and always full of fire, the Scofield family is not one to keep its opinions... more

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The Pale Horseman (Saxon Chronicles, Bk 2) by Bernard Cornwell

The last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors. A dispossessed young nobleman, Uhtred is tied to the imperiled land by birth and marriage but was raised by the Danish invaders -- and he questions where his allegiance must lie. But blood is his... more

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Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Adrie...

"My family has a grand tradition. After a woman gives birth, she goes mad. I thought that I would be the one to escape." So begins Adrienne Martini's candid, compelling, and darkly humorous history of her family's and her own experiences with depression and postpartum... more

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The Mercy Seller by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

In the fifteenth century, with religious intolerance spreading like wildfire across Europe, English-born Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, earn a living in Prague by illuminating precious books, including forbidden translations of the Bible. Finn subscribes to the heresy that people ought... more

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Exiles by Ron Hansen

In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, Germany, bound for America. On board were five nuns, exiled by a ban on religious orders, bound to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Their journey would end when the Deutschland ran aground at the mouth of the Thames and all five... more

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Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland

The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Valliere, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King. Set... more

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A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

A profoundly moving portrait of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, A Short History of Women chronicles five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first. Beginning in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Trevor Townsend,... more

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Fever Season (Benjamin January, Bk 2) by Barbara Hambly

Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting mélange of history and mystery. Now he returns in another novel of greed, madness, and murder amid the dark shadows and dazzling society of old New Orleans, named a Notable Book of... more

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Graveyard Dust (Benjamin January, Bk 3) by Barbara Hambly

Bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color and Fever Season established Benjamin January as one of mystery's most exciting heroes. Now he returns in a powerful new novel, a sensual mosaic of old New Orleans, where cultures clash and murder can hover around every darkened... more

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Die Upon a Kiss (Benjamin January, Bk 5) by Barbara Hambly

In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater’s impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it’s pitch-black in the alley where free man of color... more

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Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi & Shaun Whiteside (Translator)

Giverny, France. During the day, the town is the home of the famous artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his Water Lilies. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village. This is the story of thirteen days that begin with one murder and... more

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The Clockwork Scarab (Stoker & Holmes, Bk 1) by Colleen Gleason

Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood. And when two society girls go missing, there's no one more qualified to investigate. Now... more

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The Hermit's Story: Stories by Rick Bass

The Hermit"s Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and a woman travel across an eerily frozen lake—under the ice. "The Distance" casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man"s visit to Monticello. "Eating" begins... more

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The Law of Angels (Abbess of Meaux, Bk 3) by Cassandra Clark

Summer, 1385. The sun is hot and high, promising a fine harvest - but storm-clouds of insurrection are gathering over England. Lollard heretics, driven from their base at Oxford by the iron fist of the Archbishop Courtenay, now roam the land sowing sedition and a return to the bloodshed that... more

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The Harlot's Tale (Midwife's Tale, Bk 2) by Sam Thomas

It is August, 1645, one year since York fell into Puritan hands. As the city suffers through a brutal summer heat, Bridget Hodgson and Martha Hawkins are drawn into a murder investigation more frightening than their last. In order to appease God's wrath -- and end the heat-wave -- the... more

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The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindse...

Tense, intriguing, and darkly compelling, The Falcon and the Snowman is a uniquely American story of betrayal. On the face of it, there was nothing to indicate that Andrew Dalton Lee and Christopher James Boyce were anything but two devout Catholic boys growing up in happy, warm families in one... more

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Annette Vallon by James Tipton

A tale set against the turmoil of the French Revolution follows the life of Annette Vallon, the mistress and muse of poet William Wordsworth, who transitions from a surgeon's pampered daughter to a headstrong adventurer struggling with mental instability.

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Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie

Youthful, ambitious Peter Schoeffer is on the verge of professional success as a scribe in Paris when his foster father, wealthy merchant and bookseller Johann Fust, summons him home to corrupt, feud-plagued Mainz to meet “a most amazing man.” Johann Gutenberg, a driven and... more

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The Circus Train by Amita Parikh

Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, despite her father's overprotection and the limits her world places on... more

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The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough

Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. But what about their sister Mary? At the conclusion of Jane Austen's classic novel, Mary, bookish, awkward, and by all accounts, unmarriageable, is sentenced to a dull, provincial existence in the backwaters of... more

Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. But what about their sister Mary? At the conclusion of Jane Austen's classic novel, Mary, bookish, awkward, and by all accounts, unmarriageable, is sentenced to a dull, provincial existence in the backwaters of Britain. Now, master storyteller Colleen McCullough rescues Mary from her dreary fate with The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet, a page-turning sequel set twenty years after Austen's novel closes. The story begins as the neglected Bennet sister is released from the stultifying duty of caring for her insufferable mother. Though many would call a woman of Mary's age a spinster, she has blossomed into a beauty to rival that of her famed sisters. Her violet eyes and perfect figure bewitch the eligible men in the neighborhood, but though her family urges her to marry, romance and frippery hold no attraction. Instead, she is determined to set off on an adventure of her own. Fired with zeal by the newspaper letters of the mysterious Argus, she resolves to publish a book about the plight of England's poor. Plunging from one predicament into another, Mary finds herself stumbling closer to long-buried secrets, unanticipated dangers, and unlooked-for romance. Meanwhile, the other dearly loved characters of Pride and Prejudice fret about the missing Mary while they contend with difficulties of their own. Darcy's political ambitions consume his ardor, and he bothers with Elizabeth only when the impropriety of her family seems to threaten his career. Lydia, wild and charming as ever, drinks and philanders her way into dire straits; Kitty, a young widow of means, occupies herself with gossip and shopping; and Jane, naive and trusting as ever, spends her days ministering to her crop of boys and her adoring, if not entirely faithful, husband. Yet, with the shadowy and mysterious figure of Darcy's right-hand man, Ned Skinner, lurking at every corner, it is clear that all is not what it seems at idyllic Pemberley. As the many threads of McCullough's masterful plot come together, shocking truths are revealed, love, both old and new, is tested, and all learn the value of true independence in a novel for every woman who has wanted to leave her mark on the world.

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The Sea of Trolls (The Sea of Trolls Trilogy) by Nancy Farmer

?The Sea of Trolls blends ancient history and Norse epics with recognizable bits of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings? (The New York Times). Jack is kidnapped by berserkers from his Saxon village in the year A.D. 793, an occurrence forewarned by his mentor the Bard. Captured by Viking chief... more

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Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft by Samantha Silva

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Victoria and Albert by Evelyn Anthony

Drawn from Queen Victoria’s diaries and correspondences, Evelyn Anthony’s novel reimagines the story of how a sheltered eighteen-year-old girl ascended to the British throne, became a major force in politics, and fell in love with her husband When King William dies, his teenage... more

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Millennial Women by Virginia Kidd (Editor)

In these spellbinding stories, six of today's best-known science fiction authors write about women who must fight to develop their own identities. Luz Falco of Ursula K. Le Guin's new novel The Eye of the Heron follows the only truth she knows, even though it means exile in an endless... more

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The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

Twelve times a week, twenty-eight-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No. 2 in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The insular community considers the mill’s owners -- the newly arrived Goldberg brothers -- white but not... more

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A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf

Inspired by true events, A More Perfect Union is an epic story of love and courage, desperation and determination, and three people whose lives are inescapably entwined… Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape the famine in Ireland, only to face anti-immigrant prejudice.... more

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Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones : A Novel by...

Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to... more

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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand... more

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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, Bk 1) by Libba Bray

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's... more

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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Bk 1) by Naomi Novik

From Publisher's Weekly: In this delightful first novel, the opening salvo of a trilogy, Novik seamlessly blends fantasy into the history of the Napoleonic wars. Here be dragons, beasts that can speak and reason, bred for strength and speed and used for aerial support in battle. Each nation has... more

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Shadow of the Serpent: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 1 (Inspector McLevy, 1) by David A...

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The Sugar Camp Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, Bk 7) by Jennifer Chiaverini

History is thick with secrets in The Sugar Camp Quilt, seventh in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series from bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the story begins with friends and neighbors taking sides in the... more

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Silent in the Grave (Lady Julia Grey, Bk 1) by Deanna Raybourn

These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and... more

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The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine

Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love. A gracious, dignified woman, who's dying in an English nursing home, reveals the secrets of her... more

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The Dinosaur Princess (Dinosaur Lords, Bk 3) by Victor Milán

Victor Milan's The Dinosaur Princess is a thrilling epic fantasy adventure set in an alternative world of intrigue, beauty, brutality--and dinosaurs. WELCOME TO PARADISE: A primordial world with every species of dinosaur, large and small. And humans, who were brought to this world on the... more

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American Duchess by Karen Harper

Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter and the gold.” On a cold November day in 1895, a carriage approaches St Thomas Episcopal Church on New... more

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Wake of the Perdido Star by Gene Hackman & Daniel Lenihan

Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman and leading underwater archeologist Daniel Lenihan have combined their talents to create one of the most exciting-and critically acclaimed-adventure novels of our time. A rousing saga of shipwrecks, pirates, and the sea, it chronicles the fate of a young... more

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The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson

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Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent

From the best-selling author Jeffrey Lent, Lost Nation is a tour de force novel. Impelled by sensuous prose and atmospheric storytelling, Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to unveil a startling parable of individualism and... more

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Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason

Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900--a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world--Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A farm wife living near the small town of Hopewell, Kentucky, Christianna... more

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Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son... more

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The Hammer and the Cross (Hammer and Cross, Bk 1) by Harry Harrison & John Holm

865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests. Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided... more

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One King's Way (Hammer and the Cross, Bk 2) by Harry Harrison & John Holm

A craftsman, visionary, and warrior, Shef has risen from slavery to become king of a mighty Viking nation. But his growing kingdom menaces all of Europe, and he has made many powerful enemies. Chief among his enemies are the Knights of the Lance, a fanatical order of soldiers sworn to bring... more

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King and Emperor (Hammer and the Cross, No 3) by Harry Harrison & John Holm

Driven by prophetic dreams, the Viking warrior Shef as become the One King, the undisputed ruler of the North. Now he must face the reborn power of the Holy Roman Empire.Rome threatens Shef's fearsome Viking navy with a new invention of unparalleled destruction: Greek fire. Unable to defend his... more

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Mockingbird (Miriam Black, Bk 2) by Chuck Wendig

Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole "settling down thing" that Louis has going for her just isn't working out. She lives on Long Beach Island all year around. Her home is a run-down double-wide trailer. She works at a grocery store as a check-out girl. And her... more

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An Order for Death (Matthew Bartholomew, Bk 7) by Susanna Gregory

Believers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics, and Brother Michael, the Senior Proctor, is struggling to keep the peace. When a nominalist is murdered during a riot, Michael is certain he will find the killer among... more

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A Wicked Deed (Matthew Bartholomew, Bk 5) by Susanna Gregory

Spring, 1353. Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is traveling with a party from the college to accept the gift of a parish church in Suffolk. But when the benefactor begins to unduly rush the deed to legalize the transfer, Bartholomew senses that... more

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A Summer of Discontent: The Eighth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Grego...

Cambridgeshire, 1354, and the Bishop of Ely has been accused of a most terrible murder. Glovere was steward to Lady Blanche de Wake, a close relative of the King. A malicious gossip, his body was discovered days after the Bishop had publicly threatened him. Protesting his innocence, the Bishop... more

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A Civil Death (New Orleans, Bk 3) by John William Corrington & Joyce H. Corringto...

Denise Lemoyne is an Uptown New Orleans girl -- a well-born aristocrat whether she likes it or not. Unwilling to sit life out on the sidelines, lunching with the other society women, she's engaged to Wes Colvin, a backwoods boy turned hotshot reporter. When that's not enough to give her... more

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A Project Named Desire by John William Corrington & Joyce H. Corrington

A New Orleans Mystery

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So Small a Carnival by John William Corrington & Joyce H. Corrington

Meet Wes Colvin. He's the kind of guy who's on his way up and out---up from police beat reporter and out of New Orleans. A horrible mass murder in his favorite French Quarter bar offers him a one-way ticket to fame and fortune. This is the kind of story Pulitzer Prizes... more

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A Wolf by the Ears (Juniper Prize for Fiction) by Wayne Karlin

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Napoleon's Pyramids (Ethan Gage, Bk 1) by William Dietrich

What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids? The world changes for Ethan Gage -- one -- time assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin -- on a night in post-revolutionary Paris, when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon after for the murder of a prostitute and... more

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The Hallowed Isle (Book of the Sword/Diana L. Paxson, Bk 1) by Diana L. Paxson

Mighty Rome subjugated the isle of Britain only to abandon it, leaving behind a bloody patchwork of warring tribes. The fragile peace imposed by the conquerors has been shattered, compelling Artoria Argantel -- Lady of the Lake and Druid priestess -- to call upon the Spirit of War and Justice... more

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Peking by Grey Anthony

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Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe (Josephine B., Bk 2) by Sandra Gulland

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe is the much-awaited sequel to Sandra Gulland's highly acclaimed first novel, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. Beginning in Paris in 1796, the saga continues as Josephine awakens to her new life as Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte. Through her... more

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The Last Great Dance on Earth (Josephine B. Trilogy, Bk 3) by Sandra Gulland

The Last Great Dance on Earth is the triumphant final volume of Sandra Gulland's beloved trilogy based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. When the novel opens, Josephine and Napoleon have been married for four tumultuous years. Napoleon is Josephine's great love, and she his. But their... more

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The Winslow Incident by Elizabeth Voss

ONE MORE LIE� Seventeen-year-old Hazel Winslow doesn't want the burden of keeping yet another secret. With luck, she'll soon be putting her tourist-trap hometown and her unhappy past behind her. But for now, keeping silent about her uncle's sick cattle is the only way she can protect those... more

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Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books by Francesca Lia Block

Lanky lizards! The slinkster-cool novels in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series have finally been compiled into one delicious volume. All of the ethereal, mesmerizing titles are here--Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-Bop--together like... more

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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of... more

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Roman Games (Plinius Secundus, Bk 1) by Bruce MacBain

Rome: September, 96 AD. When the body of Sextus Verpa, a notorious senatorial informer and libertine, is found stabbed to death in his bedroom, his slaves are suspected. Pliny is ordered by the emperor Domitian to investigate. However, the Ludi Romani, the Roman Games, have just... more

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Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead by Nick Drake

She is Nefertiti—beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal couple's inauguration of an enlightened new religion and the... more

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Serpent in the Thorns (Crispin Guest, Bk 2) by Jeri Westerson

Convicted of treason, Crispin Guest was stripped of his title, his land, his money and his friends. Now with only his considerable wits to sustain him, Guest works the mean streets of 14th century London, building a small reputation for his skill. In 1383, a simple-minded tavern girl comes to... more

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Cruzatte and Maria (Gabriel Du Pre, Bk 8) by Peter Bowen

In his eighth outing, Metis-Indian fiddler, tracker, and amateur sleuth Gabriel Du Pre is called upon by his daughter Maria and her fiance to act as historical advisor for a documentary film about the Lewis & Clark expedition. Du Pre is the descendant of Pierre Cruzatte, one of the scouts... more

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Poison (Poisoner Mysteries, Bk 1) by Sara Poole

In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover the plot that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge Europe back into medieval... more

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Manhunt : The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson

The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history -- the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of... more

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Serena by Ron Rash

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains -- but she soon... more

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A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

'We never should've gone up there...' One Sunday, nine-years-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. The unimaginable violence that follows must be untangled by a local sheriff with his own... more

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Murder on Nob Hill (Sarah Woolson, Bk 1) by Shirley Tallman

The year is 1880, the place San Francisco. Intelligent, outspoken Sarah Woolson is a young woman with a goal and the fortitude to achieve it. She has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. The trouble is, everyone believes women belong in the home---that it is not only unnatural, but against... more

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The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson

In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination and awe.

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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore

Lorna Doone relays the perenially popular story of John Ridd and his love for the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone who was kidnapped as a child by an outlaw family. This version remains the only critical edition of a work which, since 1869, has never gone out of print.

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Jefferson by Max Byrd

In the magnificent tradition if Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr, Max Byrd reveals a Thomas Jefferson we've never met before... It is 1784, and Jefferson, the newly appointed American ambassador to the court of Louis XVI... more

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The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper

We all know the story of the March sisters, heroines of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. But while everyone cheers on Jo March, based on Louisa herself, Amy March is often the least favorite sister. Now, it’s time to learn the truth about the real “Amy”,... more

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The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott

Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy. Tess, an... more

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The Book of Shadows (Herculine, Bk 1) by James Reese

Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the... more

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Book of Souls (Will Piper, Bk 2) by Glenn Cooper

The Library: Only a handful know it exists ... It holds the world's most astonishing -- and terrifying -- information . . . But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time ... is missing. Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved -- and survived -- the 'Doomsday... more

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Nefertiti (Nefertiti, Bk 1) by Michelle Moran

Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unstable young pharaoh. It is hoped by all that her strong... more

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The Heretic Queen (Nefertiti, Bk 2) by Michelle Moran

In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty's royal family -- all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former... more

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Martyr (John Shakespeare, Bk 1) by Rory Clements

In this ingenious debut, Rory Clements introduces John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator, and delivers a tale of murder and conspiracy that succeeds brilliantly as both historical fiction and a crime thriller. In a burnt-out house, one of Queen... more

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Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller

A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era PhiladelphiaBetsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures... more

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The Solitary House (Charles Maddox, Bk 2) by Lynn Shepherd

Lynn Shepherd’s first acclaimed novel of historical suspense, Murder at Mansfield Park, brilliantly reimagined the time of Jane Austen. Now, in this spellbinding new triumph, she introduces an unforgettable duo of detectives into the gaslit world of Dickens. London, 1850. Charles... more

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The Pierced Heart (Charles Maddox, Bk 4) by Lynn Shepherd

When an Austrian nobleman offers a substantial donation to the University of Oxford, Charles Maddox is called on to investigate the generous benefactor. It is a decidedly mundane task for the increasingly renowned criminal investigator, but Maddox welcomes the chance to trade London's... more

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At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to... more

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Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel captures the essence of the Southwest in the early 1900s-and depicts a young Native American couple experiencing all the uncertainties and joys of first love. Laughing Boy is one of the most powerful novels in American fiction."Lucid beauty, vital artistic... more

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Cut to the Quick (Julian Kestrel, Bk 1) by Kate Ross

Impeccably evoking Regency England, this period thriller stars historically authentic detective Julian Kestrel. During an elegant country weekend, Kestrel finds the corpse of an attractive young woman in his bed, and sets out to find the killer among the glittering denizens of a titled house... more

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A Broken Vessel (Julian Kestrel, Bk 2) by Kate Ross

Julian Kestrel stalks a diabolical killer through high places and low life in Regency England. In London's notorious Haymarket district, Sally Stokes, a bold and bewitching Cockney prostitute, picks up three men one after the other and nicknames them Bristles, Blue Eyes, and Blinkers.... more

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Whom the Gods Love (Julian Kestrel, Bk 3) by Kate Ross

The author of Cut to the Quick and A Broken Vessel returns to Regency England for a third case in the historical mystery series that is charming Anne Perry and Elizabeth George fans. Alexander Falkland hasn't an enemy in the world. Young, talented, and charming, he shines in every field he... more

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The Quality of Mercy by Faye Kellerman

"A sprawling historical tale...Entertaining." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS Rebecca Lopez, the beautiful, fiery daughter of Roderigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's own physician, keeps many secrets. Not only are she and her family conversos, or secret Jews who must practice their religion in secret, but... more

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Guests on Earth: A Novel by Lee Smith

When she is thirteen years old, Evalina Toussaint, the orphaned child of an exotic dancer in New Orleans, is admitted as a mental patient to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. The year is 1936, and the hospital, under the direction of celebrity psychiatrist Robert S. Carroll, is... more

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A Trust Betrayed (Margaret Kerr of Perth, Bk 1) by Candace Robb

It is Scotland, in the spring of 1297, and Margaret Kerr's merchant husband, Roger, has been missing since winter. Though he originally set out for trading purposes, Margaret now worries that he may have been caught up in the rebellion against the English---or may have been killed.... more

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Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall

Put on trial by her slaveholder husband and convicted of madness by a Virginia judge, Iris Dunleavy has been sent to the very expensive Sanibel Asylum to be restored as a good plantation wife. She will, the institution's superintendent assures her, be convinced of her wrongdoing, but Iris... more

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The Village by the Sea by Paula Fox

When Emma's father goes to the hospital for surgery, she is sent to stay with Aunt Bea the "terror" and kindly Uncle Crispin. Emma wonders how she will survive two weeks with the always hostile Aunt Bea.Luckily, Emma makes a friend, Bertie, and the two girls begin a project on the beach.... more

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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan

Product Description A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensable guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple,... more

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Angel Landing by Alice Hoffman

The bestselling author of Practical Magic offers "an affecting love story, laced with humor" (Booklist) that tells the tale of a man and a woman, an activist and a therapist, so consumed with helping others that they are in danger of failing in their duty to themselves. This is an unforgettable... more

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The Belt of Gold by Cecelia Holland

A Novel of ancient Byznatium -- where love was a game of chance and intrigue a way of life. Hagen, an unsophisticated Frankish pilgrim in Constantinople at the beginning of the 9th century, blunders into politics at the court of the Empress Irene, where nothing has value but power.

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Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

This entrancing and deeply searching novel will touch a nerve in every reader. Celia Grinstead, 40-year-old mother of three almost-grown children, on a sudden impulse, walks away from her marriage, hitches a ride into the unknown, and settles in a strange new town. But soon after she begins her... more

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A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the... more

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The Bride of the Wilderness (Paul Christopher, Bk 6) by Charles McCarry

Fanny’s father, Henry Harding, has known Oliver Barebones since the two men were children. Together they survived the Great Plague and the Great Fire, and now they are rich, middle-aged, and unmarried. Everyone’s shocked when Oliver, a lifelong bachelor, falls headfirst for a... more

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Dream West by David Nevin

John Charles Fremont was a fiery young officer, bent on mapping the vast trackless American west, and desperately needing government backing. Jessie Benton was the exquisitely beautiful, dazzlingly accomplished, and jealously guarded sixteen-year-old daughter of the most powerful politician in... more

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Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy (Darcy Saga, Bk 1) by Sharon Lathan & Jane Austen

Through the honeymoon and then the challenges of Elizabeth assuming the role of Mistress of Pemberley, the Fitzwilliams' passion and love for each other grows. To Lizzy's delight, Darcy's sister, Georgiana, returns home just as Christmas preparations are underway, but all is not calm... more

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.) by Jay Winik

One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed... more

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The Perfume Garden: A Novel by Kate Lord Brown

An international bestseller, Kate Lord Brown's debut novel The Perfume Garden has sold especially well in Canada, where it was selected as Walmart's Read of the Month for June 2015 and made it to the Globe & Mail bestseller list. High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its... more

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The Dakota Winters: A Novel by Tom Barbash

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City?s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon?s assassinationIt?s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the... more

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So Long, See You Tomorrow (Vintage International) by William Maxwell

On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past.... more

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The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.) by Ann-Marie MacDonald

The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air Force base near the Canadian border. Secure... more

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Covenant with Hell: A Medieval Mystery (Medieval Mysteries) by Priscilla Royal

Still troubled by the events in The Sanctity of Hate, Prioress Eleanor goes on a pilgrimage in the spring of 1277 to a famous East Anglian shrine. There are rumors that King Edward may also come here soon to seek God?s blessing for his invasion of Wales.� � Lurking in this sacred place, however,... more

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The Paris Winter: A Novel by Imogen Robertson

Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris, she quickly realizes, is no place for a light purse. While her fellow students enjoy the dazzling decadence of the Belle Epoque, Maud... more

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The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman

Now, in The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister's fiance. Frieda Lewis, a doctor's daughter and a runaway, becomes... more

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Lords of the North (Saxon Chronicles, Bk 3) by Bernard Cornwell

The year is 878. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King Alfred, he is heading home to rescue his stepsister, a prisoner of Kjartan the Cruel in the... more

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Sword Song (Saxon Chronicles, Bk 4) by Bernard Cornwell

The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and Alfred's kingdom of Wessex in the south. But trouble stirs, a dead man has risen and new Vikings have arrived to occupy London. It is a dangerous time, and it falls to Uhtred, half Saxon, half Dane,... more

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A Touch of Dead (Sookie Stackhouse: The Complete Stories) by Charlaine Harris

In "Fariy Dust," Sookie finds her mind-reading talents in demand when a fairy from a set of triplets gets dusted. "Dracula Night" may be the commemoration of the Prince of Darkness's birth, but it's Sookie who gets a tasty-looking present. Learning... more

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The Chocolate Maker's Wife: A Novel by Karen Brooks

Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London?a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue?and chocolate.Damnation has never been so sweet...Rosamund... more

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In The Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton

Historian Norton revisits the witchcraft panic of the late 17th century in the U.S., situating it in the context of anxiety over the Indian wars that may have precipitated the hysteria. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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Pirate King (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Bk 11) by Laurie R. King

In England's young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, at the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of criminal activities that swirl around Fflytte's popular movie studio. So Russell is traveling... more

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Garment of Shadows (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Bk 12) by Laurie R. King

Laurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today’s most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thrilling adventure, the couple is separated by a shocking circumstance in a... more

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The Dancing Floor by Barbara Michaels

For years, Heather Tradescant had dreamed of the journey she and her father would take to England--a pilgrimage to the great gardens of history.Now that her father is dead, Heather is determined to fulfill his dreams. Unfortunately, her request to see the fabled 17th-century garden of Troytan... more

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Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now: The Best of Mary Schmich by Mary S...

Over the last two decades, Mary Schmich?s bi-weekly column in the Chicago Tribune has offered advice, humor, and discerning commentary on a broad array of topics including family, milestones, mental illness, writing, and life in Chicago. Schmich won the 2012 Pulitzer for Commentary for �her... more

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Houses of Stone by Barbara Michaels

When young professor of English Karen Holloway happens on a privately printed volume of verse dating from the early 19th century, it's all in a day's work. But when a battered manuscript bearing the same mysterious attribution, "Ismene," turns up, Karen realizes that it is an... more

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Into the Darkness by Barbara Michaels

Upon the death of her grandfather, Meg Venturi unexpectedly inherits the eccentric millionaire's antique jewelry business. There is one catch to her sudden windfall -- she must share the wealth with a taciturn and oddly attractive young man who has an entire town stirring up rumors -- about... more

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A Conspiracy of Paper (Benjamin Weaver, Bk 1) by David Liss

Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family until he is asked to investigate his father's sudden death. Thus Weaver... more

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The New Year's Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, Bk 11) by Jennifer Chiaverini

THE NEW YEAR'S QUILT tells the story of how the newlyweds celebrate their first holiday season as husband and wife. Not content to rest at home by the fire, they set out on a journey across the snow-covered fields of Pennsylvania. Their destination is Connecticut, and the home of Andrew's... more

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The Hidden Light of Northern Fires: A Novel by Daren Wang

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The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

Vidocq! Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818—and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former... more

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The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but a man she last saw... more

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Imperium (Cicero, Bk 1) by Robert Harris

When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a... more

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The Orphan Mother: A Novel by Robert Hicks

An epic account of one remarkable woman's quest for justice from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country. In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock--the "Widow of the South"--has quietly built a new ... more

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Quinn's Book by William J. Kennedy

Quinn's Book tells the story of Daniel Quinn, of his adventure-filled search for true love and the answer to the riddle of his own fate.

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The Grass Dancer by Susan Power

A major talent debuts with this beguiling novel whose characters are Dakota Sioux and their spirit ancestors. Covering some of the same themes as Louise Erdrich but displaying her own distinctive voice and transcendent imagination, Power has produced an authentic portrait of Native American... more

A major talent debuts with this beguiling novel whose characters are Dakota Sioux and their spirit ancestors. Covering some of the same themes as Louise Erdrich but displaying her own distinctive voice and transcendent imagination, Power has produced an authentic portrait of Native American culture and characters who are as resilient and tangible as the grass moving over the Great Plains. In interconnected stories that begin in 1981 and range back to 1864, the residents of a Sioux reservation endure poverty, epidemic illness, injustice and--no less importantly--jealousy, greed, anger and unrequited love. The tales begin and end with Harley Wind Soldier, a 17-year-old whose soul is a "black, empty hole" because his mother has not spoken a word since the accident 17 years earlier in which Harley's father and brother died. Eventually we discover the true circumstances surrounding that event and other secrets--of clandestine love affairs, of childrens' paternity--that stretch back several generations but hold a grip on the present. Meanwhile, Harley falls in love with enchanting Pumpkin, an amazingly adept grass dancer whose fate will make readers gasp. Mercury Thunder and her daughter Anna use magic in a sinister way, and tragedy results. Herod Small War, a Yuwipi (interpreter of dreams), tries to bring his community into harmony with the spiritual world. The existence of ghosts in the real world is accepted with calm belief by the characters, who know the old legends and understand that the direction of their lives is determined by their gods and ancestors. Power weaves historical events--the Apollo Moon landing; the 19th-century Great Plains drought--into her narrative, reinforcing the seamless coexistence of the real and the spirit realm. A consummate storyteller whose graceful prose is plangent with lyrical metaphor and sensuous detail, she deftly uses suspense, humor, irony and the gradual revelation of dramatic disclosures to compose a tapestry of human life. Seduced by her humane vision and its convincing depiction, one absorbs the traditions and lore of the Sioux community with a sense of wonder reflecting that with which the characters view the natural world. This is a book that begs to be read at one sitting, and then again. A chapter appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1993. BOMC and QPB selection.

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Twisted : The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver by Jeffery Deaver

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers an electrifying collection of sixteen award-winning stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. Diverse and provocative, Twisted showcases Deaver's amazing range and signature plot twists: a beautiful woman goes to... more

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More Twisted: Collected Stories, Vol 2 by Jeffery Deaver

Deaver, author of a string of best-selling thrillers, says in the introduction to this story collection (his second, following 2003's Twisted) that short fiction is inherently different from a novel. And he proves it in every one of the 16 stories, which include a new Lincoln Rhyme mystery.... more

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The Assassin's Masque (Palace of Spies, Bk 3) by Sarah Zettel

Things are turning around for seventeen-year-old Peggy Fitzroy, a once-orphaned spy. Her father is back from the dead, and her unwanted engagement has been called off for good. But when a mysterious veiled woman shows up, Peggy uncovers a fresh slew of questions about her past, present, and... more

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The Uninvited by Cat Winters

Twenty-five year old Ivy Rowan rises from her bed after being struck by the flu, only to discover the world has been torn apart in just a few short days. But Ivy’s life-long gift—or curse—remains. For she sees the uninvited ones—ghosts of loved ones who appear to her,... more

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Rival to the Queen by Carolly Erickson

Powerful, dramatic and full of the rich history that has made Carolly Erickson's novels perennial bestsellers, this is the story of the only woman to ever stand up to the Virgin Queen-- her own cousin, Lettie Knollys. Far more attractive than the queen, Lettie soon won the attention of the... more

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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Co...

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes?s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of... more

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A Stolen Tongue by Sheri Holman

It is 1483. Father Felix Fabri has set sail from Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of the spiritual bride he took when he first swore his vows, the martyr Saint Katherine of Alexandria. Joined by a disturbed young woman who claims that Saint Katherine speaks through... more

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Sign of the Raven (Last Viking, No 3) by Poul Anderson

THE SAGA OF HARALD HARDREDE Poul Anderson's mighty historical epic of the last and greatest Viing King - Harald Hardrede - the real-life CONAN. Drunk with battle Harald hardly saw the men he killed. There seemed to be wings beating over him as his blade rose and fell, smashing... more

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High on a Hill (Jazz Age, Bk 2) by Dorothy Garlock

Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house in Missouri. Anabel is glad that she was able to finish high school before the move, but has resigned herself to the fact that her father's bootlegging business has made them... more

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A Place Called Rainwater (Jazz Age, Bk 3) by Dorothy Garlock

The small town of Rainwater, Oklahoma, has become a notorious boomtown now that a gusher has flooded its streets with drillers, welders, and roustabouts of every description. Jill, a spunky and hard-working young woman who runs the hotel for her aunt, is unprepared to cope with the attention she... more

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Mother Road (Route 66, Bk 1) by Dorothy Garlock

National bestselling author Dorothy Garlock breaks new ground with this first of a series of novels set on Route 66 -- the Depression's famed road to the Golden West. On a hot summer day in 1932, Andy Connors, who owns a garage that serves Route 66, finds himself in major trouble:... more

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Song of the Road (Route 66, Bk 3) by Dorothy Garlock

It's just a string of rundown cabins on a stretch of New Mexico highway. But returning to Cross Roads widowed, broke, and pregnant, Mary Lee Clawson knows her dad's motor court is a godsend. With steely resolve, she sets out to rebuild the failing business and discovers she... more

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On the Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt

According to ancient Black Forest legend, on the Night of the Seventh Moon, Loke, the God of Mischief, is at large in the world. It is a night for festivity and joyful celebration. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love.Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she... more

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The Peacock Summer: A Novel by Hannah Richell

Two women who long for more, and a house that holds the key to their freedom?From internationally bestselling author Hannah Richell comes this compelling story of hidden secrets, forbidden love, and a mysterious old house. ?A juicy mix of secrets and betrayals make The Peacock Summer by Hannah... more

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Glory and Lightning by Taylor Caldwell

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Search the Shadows by Barbara Michaels

Who was her father? When twenty-two-year-old Haskell Malone accidentally discovers damning proof that the dead was hero whose name she bears is not her father, she is shattered. The revelation only confirms the dark fear that has haunted her since childhood. In fact, what little she knows about... more

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The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck

For him it began with a bright blue parrot feather that fell from Ella Lynch's hat when she was horseback riding in the Bois de Boulogne. The year was 1854, and Francisco Solano Lopez -- "Franco," the future dictator of Paraguay -- began his courtship of the young, beautiful Irishwoman with a... more

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A Bad Day for Sorry (Stella Hardesty, Bk 1) by Sophie Littlefield

Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she's so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her... more

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Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg?s stories gently compel us to... more

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Every Night Is Ladies' Night : Stories by Michael Jaime-Becerra

With a cast of characters so vivid they seem to leap from the page, this collection of linked short stories offers a portrait of individuals aching to find their place in an indifferent world. The characters who inhabit these stories -- teenagers, beauty queens, race car drivers, and even... more

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City of Secrets (Miranda Corbie, Bk 2) by Kelli Stanley

Release date: July 17, 2012 | Series: Miranda Corbie Mysteries (Book 2) This powerful sequel to Kelli Stanley’s scorching City of Dragons, which introduced unique and unforgettable series heroine Miranda Corbie, begins on May 25th, 1940, opening day for the World’s Fair. When a... more

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The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon

Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair, alive only in the memories of Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot. The three played there as girls until the day that their games uncovered something dark and twisted in the motel's past,... more

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Search the Shadows by Barbara Michaels

Who was her father? When twenty-two-year-old Haskell Malone accidentally discovers damning proof that the dead was hero whose name she bears is not her father, she is shattered. The revelation only confirms the dark fear that has haunted her since childhood. In fact, what little she knows... more

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The Walker in Shadows by Barbara Michaels

A House Where Darkness Lives... The house next door stood empty for years, an eerie mirror image of Pat Robbins' well-tended home. Until the day the Friedrichses moved in. Pat's teen-aged son fell head over heels for Kathy, his new neighbor. But in a furious battle of wills,... more

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The Master of Blacktower by Barbara Michaels

What is the secret that haunts the master of Blacktower? His hands were encased in black silk gloves, a lurid scar twisting the roughly hewn features of his face. his dark eyes blazed and his mocking laughter echoed to the highest tower of the ancient Scottish estate. Damaris Gordon knew she... more

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Wings of the Falcon by Barbara Michaels

Nothing in Francesca's imagination had prepared her for the incredible adventures that awaited her in Italy. It was frighteningly alien to her, but there was no other place to turn after her father's death. When her mother's wealthy Italian family had sent for her she had found... more

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The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley

The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering what that something was--a quest that takes the brilliant and bitter young black historian John Washington back through the secrets and buried evil of his... more

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Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News by Dan Rather

This memoir by Dan Rather -- one of the most pre-eminent journalists of our time -- is told in a straightforward and conversational manner so that you hear his distinctive voice on every page. Rather, -- who has won every prestigious journalism award in his distinguished career -- discusses all... more

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Prince of Darkness by Barbara Michaels

A stranger has come to Middleburg, Maryland, a visitor from abroad with a mysterious purpose. But this quaint, affluent community has dark secrets of its own. And when the interloper, Peter Stewart, becomes involved with the bewitching, seductive ward of noted local author Kate More, the town... more

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Someone in the House (Someone in the House, Bk 1) by Barbara Michaels

Anne and Kevin had planned to spend their vacation writing a book at a summer retreat. But something lured them away from their work... something elusive, powerful, and unreal -- a ghostly presence that threatened more than their work.

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Black Rainbow by Barbara Michaels

Megan O'Neill sees it hanging in the sky above the towers of Grayhaven Manor -- a beautiful yet sinister black rainbow, a warning to the estate's new governess to stay away. Yet the warmth and kindness of the Mandeville family banish her fears -- and her hypnotic obsession for her... more

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Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, Bk 1) by Nevada Barr

The memory of violence and loss drove Anna Pigeon from the city to seek peace in the Southwestern wilderness. Now a ranger in America's national parks, Anna is at one with nature and its serene, unspoiled majesty. But the brutal death of a fellow ranger in the remote West Texas backcountry... more

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The Four Seasons by Laurel Corona

A Novel of Vivaldi's Venice In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else--and for two sisters coming of age, the city's passions blend in intoxicating ways. Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. The two sisters were abandoned as... more

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Isabel's Daughter by Judith Ryan Hendricks

The childhood of twenty-five-year-old Avery James has been a series of disappointments. At the institution where her mother abandoned her, and later in foster homes, she develops the hard shell that will protect her from caring for people who always seem to disappear just when she begins to... more

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Secret of the White Rose (Simon Ziele, Bk 3) by Stefanie Pintoff

The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele’s jurisdiction in more ways than one. For one, it’s high-profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensational trial of Al Drayson.... more

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Throne of Isis by Judith Tarr

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt She was the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean, and the only person standing between Rome and its dominion over the world. She was wife to Julius Caesar, and bore his only son. After his death she took Marc Antony, Caesar's great general, as lover... more

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Wait for What Will Come by Barbara Michaels

From the back cover. Within the shadows of the sea, a demon lover waits... She was the last of an ancient Cornish clan, and Carla Tregellas had inherited the pride of her family name--a huge mansion that loomed high above the jagged cliffs of Cornwall. She felt at home there right from the... more

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Patriot's Dream by Barbara Michaels

Jan Wilde's much-needed vacation in Williamsburg, Virginia, is anything but restful. Here in this historic restored colonial village, her sleep is invaded by strangers from two centuries in the past. They seem so close, so real?and when Jan awakens in the morning, their lives and loves and the... more

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East by Edith Pattou

Rose has always felt out of place in her family, a wanderer in a bunch of homebodies. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come away with him--in exchange for health and prosperity for her ailing family--she readily agrees. The bear takes Rose to a distant castle,... more

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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse

Six timeless, imaginative tales of individuals who struggle to fit within the boundaries of normal society are brought to life: "The Poet," "The Flute Dream," The Dwarf," "Faldum," "Ziegler," and "Dream of the Gods." The characters are... more

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Other Worlds by Barbara Michaels

Those present include Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor, and a writer who rivals them all with her sleuthing talent. These masters of mystery are about to put their minds to a pair of ghoulish stories--of families beset by poltergeistly pranks and bewitched by... more

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Make Me a City: A Novel by Jonathan Carr

A propulsive debut of visionary scale, Make Me a City embroiders fact with fiction to tell the story of Chicago's 19th century, tracing its rise from frontier settlement to industrial colossus. The tale begins with a game of chess?and on the outcome of that game hinges the destiny of a great... more

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The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman

Heralded as 'a modern day Jane Austen' by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley... more

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Slow Poison: A Novel (Voices of the South) by Sheila Bosworth

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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

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A Most Intriguing Lady: A Novel by Sarah Ferguson

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The Eternal Temple (Ramses, Vol 2) by Christian Jacq & Mary Feeney (Translator)

The splendor and danger of ancient Egypt continues in the second volume of this magnificent saga. For Ramses, the Son of Light, the coronation has arrived. Now he will learn whether the friends of his youth--people such as Moses and the aging Greek poet, Homer--can truly be trusted. Shaanar, the... more

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Ramses: The Son of Light (Ramses, Bk 1) by Christian Jacq & Mary Feeney (Translat...

At fourteen, Ramses, the second son of the Pharaoh Seth, must begin to pass a series of royal tests designed to build his mental and physical prowess-or break him. Is Seth planning to leave the world's most powerful empire to Ramses, and not his corrupt brother, Shaanar? Before he knows it,... more

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Throne of Jade (Temeraire, Bk 2) by Naomi Novik

Captain Laurence had commanded a ship in the Royal Navy, but was relegated to the aviator corps after bonding with the hatchling from the dragon egg his ship found aboard a French prize his ship had seized. He and Temeraire, the hatchling, are a team now, and at the opening of Throne of Jade, he... more

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The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt

When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note among their late father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister unbandage its wounds in the year following their... more

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The Queen's Dwarf: A Novel by Ella March Chase

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Ghost Light: A Novel by Joseph O'Connor

In 1907 Edwardian Dublin is a city of whispers and rumors. At the Abbey Theatre W. B. Yeats is working with talented John Synge, his resident playwright. It is here that the author of Playboy of the Western World and Juno and the Paycock will meet an actress still in her teens named Molly... more

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Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice by Erica Jong

Originally published in 1973, the ground-breaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation-and sold more than twelve million copies. Now, after thirty years, the iconic novel still stands as a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and... more

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Red River by Lalita Tademy

They are men whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of emancipation through the turbulent years of Reconstruction. Portraying the lives of the families who dwell in The Bottom, a poor settlement just down Red River from Colfax,... more

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The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld

In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan’s wealthiest heiresses Inspired by Sigmund Freud's only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder is an intricate tale of murder... more

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The Fleet Street Murders (Charles Lenox, Bk 3) by Charles Finch

The third book in the Charles Lenox series finds the gentleman detective trying to balance a heated race for Parliament with the investigation of the mysterious simultaneous deaths of two veteran reporters. It’s Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his... more

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A Stranger in Mayfair (Charles Lenox, Bk 4) by Charles Finch

Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigation uncovers some unsettling facts about the family he served and a strange, second identity... more

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The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by Christopher Corbett

When Gold Rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese came through San Francisco to seek fortune. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a legend of one extraordinary woman as a lens into this experience. Before 1849, the Chinese in the United States were little more than... more

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The Fall (Strain, Bk 2) by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan

Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather -- head of the Centers for Disease Control's team -- leads a... more

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The Fountain of St. James Court: Or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman by Sena J...

Sena Jeter Naslund's inspiring novel-within-a-novel depicts the lives of both a fictional contemporary writer and a historic painter whose works now hang in the great museums of Europe and America. The story opens at midnight beside a beautifully illumined fountain of Venus Rising from... more

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