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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
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory
In this book, originally published after her bestselling debut with the Wideacre trilogy, author Philippa Gregory takes readers to Henry VIII's England, on a journey to the outer reaches of passion, where magic and female power meet.
Alys joins a nunnery to escape the poverty of her life on... more
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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters who move through Michael Holroyd's A Book of Secrets are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone and one man unite them all.
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Doomed Queen Anne (Young Royals, Bk 3) by Carolyn Meyer
Though born without great beauty, wealth, or title, Anne Boleyn blossomed into a captivating woman. She used her wiles to win the heart of England's most powerful man, King Henry VIII, and to persuade him to defy everyone -- including his own wife -- to make her his new queen. But Anne's... more
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Help for the Haunted by John Searles
John Searles's Help for the Haunted is an unforgettable story of a most unusual family, their deep secrets, their harrowing tragedy, and ultimately, a daughter's discovery of a dark and unexpected mystery.
Sylvie Mason's parents have an unusual occupation... more
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Childhood and Other Neighborhoods : Stories by Stuart Dybek
In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places--in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backwaters... more
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Laughing Boy : A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge
Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"-educated Navajo. As they... more
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Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
From the bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability.
Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding... more
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The Appointment by Herta Muller & Micheal Hulse (Translator) & Philip Boehm (...
From the winner of the IMPAC Award, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life
"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during... more
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Rebirth (Aftertime, Bk 2) by Sophie Littlefield
The end of the world was just the beginning
Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back--she and Ruthie will be happy.
Yet with the first winter, Cass is reminded that happiness is... more
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Aftertime (Aftertime, Bk 1) by Sophie Littlefield
THE WORLD IS GONE. WORSE, SO IS HER DAUGHTER.
Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Wearing unfamiliar clothes and having no idea how many days -- or weeks -- have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth:... more
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Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Exquisite new fictions by the award-winning author of Ship Fever, "a writer we must declare as major" (Newsday). Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and... more
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Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks
"Engrossing . . . The best novels are not just written but built—scene by scene, character by character—until a world emerges for readers to fall into. Painted Horses creates several worlds in a seamless and ambitious blend of history, romance, archaeology and nature. . . . Hard... 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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The Concubine by Norah Lofts
Acclaimed and beloved historical novelist Norah Lofts brings to life the danger, romance, and intrigue of the Tudor court that forever altered the course of English history.
The king first noticed Anne Boleyn as a heartbroken sixteen-year-old, sullen and beautiful after a thwarted romance... 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
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Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to... more
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The Copenhagen Connection by Elizabeth Peters
A strange twist of fate brings Elizabeth Jones face to face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg, at the Copenhagen Airport. An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth the esteemed scholar's new private assistant. But luck can go from good to bad in an instant --... more
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The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
Based upon an actual incident from the early days of the French imperialist drive into North Africa, The Magician's Wife tells a profound story of political will in conflict with spiritual belief -- and of one woman's desires and convictions.
Summoned to the grand country estate of... more
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Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood
From "the preeminent historian of the Revolution" (Jonathan Yardley), a groundbreaking study, many years in the making, of Benjamin Franklin the man, Benjamin Franklin the myth, and the roots of American character. Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We... more
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Mistress of My Fate (Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot, Bk 1) by Hallie Rubenhold
Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside her cousins, noble children of a lord and lady. At just sixteen years old, circumstance and a passionate... more
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Day of Confession by Allan Folsom
From the author of the riveting bestseller The Day After Tomorrow comes a thriller of equal complexity, heart-stopping action, and chilling credibility.
In Italy, the cardinal vicar of Rome is assassinated during a celebration of the pope’s birthday.
In Los Angeles, highly... more
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The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone, Bk 2) by Steve Berry
Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. State Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: "You have something I want. You're the only person on earth who knows where... more
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Shattered Silk by Barbara Michaels
Karen Nevitt has brought new life to old, abandoned things. Her vintage clothing collection, nestled away in Washington, D.C.'s picturesque Georgetown, features exquisite designer originals from decades past. But there is something deadly sewn into the lace and delicate fabrics she... more
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The Falcon at the Portal (Amelia Peabody, Bk 11) by Elizabeth Peters
Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season--after the marriage of young Ramses' best friend David to Amelia's niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts. While Amelia and company try to clear his name and expose... more
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Alligator by Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore?s wickedly fresh first novel?a Canadian best seller, winner of the Commonwealth Writers? Prize (Canadian and Caribbean region), and a Globe and Mail Book of the Year?moves with the swiftness of an alligator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters... more
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Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West
Reeling from the loss of her mother, plagued with a bad case of writer's block (and don't even talk about those extra twenty pounds), Renata DeChavannes feels as though everything is just plain wrong. And that was before the tabloids caught her sweetheart, filmmaker Ferg Lauderdale,... more
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The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Back in the 1860s, Ghost Horse, a handsome young heyo'ka, or sacred clown, loved and lost the beautiful warrior woman Red Dress. Since then, their spirits have sought desperately to be reunited, and it is the ceaseless playing out of this drama that shapes the sometimes violent fate of those... more
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The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon
The Tower Motel was once a thriving attraction of rural Vermont. Today it lies in disrepair, alive only in the memories of the three women -- Amy, Piper, and Piper’s kid sister, Margot -- who played there as children. They loved exploring the abandoned rooms … until the day... more
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Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs, Bk 12) by Jacqueline Winspear
It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square—a place of many memories—she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a... more
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Darcy's Story by Janet Aylmer
Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice has long stood among the most beloved novels of all time. The story of Elizabeth Bennet's blossoming romance with "haughty, reserved, and fastidious" Fitzwilliam Darcy has enchanted readers for nearly two centuries. Yet, Mr Darcy has... more
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Duty and Desire (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Bk 2) by Pamela Aidan
"The inferiority of her connections! Yet, never was he so bewitched!"
When Fitzwilliam Darcy left Hertfordshire, he was a man conflicted -- bewitched by a woman of meagre fortune and vulgar relations. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen reveals little more about her creation -- his... more
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Ruler of the Night (Thomas and Emily De Quincey) by David Morrell
The notorious Opium-Eater returns in the sensational climax to David Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mystery trilogy.
1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society, effectively changing geography and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances between cities: a whole... more
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Night Train to Memphis (Vicky Bliss, Bk 5) by Elizabeth Peters
Vicki Bliss is offered a luxury Nile cruise if she will solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, assistant curator Vicky Bliss jumps at the chance and is horrified when her investigations also unveil her lover's infidelities.
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Silhouette in Scarlet (Vicky Bliss, Bk 3) by Elizabeth Peters
One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic "message" consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss -- as they were precisely intended to do. Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously inquisitive, Vicky recognizes the handiwork of her... more
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Street of the Five Moons (Vicky Bliss, Bk 2) by Elizabeth Peters
Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff -- and she's a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside down.
Vicky gasped at... more
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The Laughter of Dead Kings (Vicky Bliss, Bk 6) by Elizabeth Peters
For the first time in more than a decade, New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters brings beautiful, brainy Vicky Bliss back into the spotlight for one last investigation. But this time the peerless art historian and sleuth will be detecting in Amelia Peabody territory, searching... more
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Skeleton Man (Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee, Bk 11) by Tony Hillerman
Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
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Sacred Clowns (Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Bk 5) by Tony Hillerman
During a kachina ceremony at the Tano pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.
Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe... more
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Listening Woman (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 3) by Tony Hillerman
The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible... more
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Murder is My Business (Mike Shayne, Bk 11) by Brett Halliday
Ten years ago, private eye Mike Shayne did a job for one of the richest men in El Paso, digging up dirt on a boy courting the tycoon’s daughter. Now the daughter’s back, all grown up and dangerous. And so’s Shayne – but this time it’s to investigate murder…
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Coyote Waits (Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Bk 4) by Tony Hillerman
The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon. The old man is Ashie Pinto. He's quickly arrested for homicide and defended by a woman Chee... more
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The Sinister Pig (Leaphorn & Chee, Bk 16) by Tony Hillerman
The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle. Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this... more
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The Wailing Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 15) by Tony Hillerman
Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road -- with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket ... and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spell... more
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Restoration by Rose Tremain
Restoration is a dazzling romp through 17th-century England. The main character Robert Merivel not only embodies the contradictions of his era, but ours as well. He is trapped between the longing for wealth and power and the realization that the pursuit of these trappings can leave one's life... more
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Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
"I was a kickaround mutt from Blue Knee, Arkansas, on my own slow ramble through sincere poverty and various spellbinding mishaps." That's the voice of Sammy Barlach, one of life's losers who sings the blues with acid sweetness and fated violence. A dark noir novel set in West... more
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Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Michaels & Barbara M...
Their civilization has inspired myriad films, books, pieces of art, myths, and dreams, and they built grand monuments that still stagger the imagination five thousand years later. But who were these people? Mertz ushers us into their homes, workplaces, temples, and palaces to give us an intimate... more
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Homeworld (To the Stars, Bk 1) by Harry Harrison
Jan Kulozik was one of Earth's privileged elite. A brilliant young electronics engineer, he enjoyed all the blessings of a 23rd-century civilization that survived the global collapse and conquered the stars, unaware of the millions who slaved or starved to maintain his way of life.Then Jan... more
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THIS SIDE OF INNOCENCE by Taylor Caldwell
"The history of a town and a family. In 1868, the Lindseys of up-state New York were a peaceful contented group until beautiful Amalie Maxwell decided to marry Alfred, the adopted son, for his money - and promptly fell in love with his dashing brother. The household soon seethed with passion,... more
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Venetia by Georgette Heyer
Her beauty rivaled only by her sensibility, Venetia Lanyon is nearly resigned to spinsterhood, thanks to the enormous amount of responsibility she inherited with a Yorkshire estate, an invalid brother and the lackluster efforts of two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then she meets her neighbor,... more
