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Instructions for a Heatwave

by Maggie O'farrell

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The...

The Forest

by Edward Rutherfurd

“AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURD’S OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, LONDON.”

–The Boston Globe

“Engaging . . . A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in...

The Lavender Garden

by Lucinda Riley

An aristocratic French family, a legendary château, and buried secrets with the power to destroy two generations torn between duty and desire.

La Côte d’Azur, 1998: In the sun-dappled south of France, Emilie...

Astor Place Vintage: With Audio Recording

by Stephanie Lehmann

Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place Vintage, thinks she’son just another call to appraise and possibly purchase clothing from a wealthy, elderly woman. But after discovering a journal sewn into a...

Sons of Zeus

by Noble Smith

In 431 B.C., Ancient Greece experienced its own “Pearl Harbor”—a treacherous sneak attack that would mark the start of the bloody war between the democracy of Athens and the tyranny of Sparta. Caught between...

The Illusion of Separateness

by Simon Van Booy

The characters in Simon Van Booy's The Illusion of Separateness discover at their darkest moments of fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone, that every human being is a link in...

Black Tiger

by J.K. Draskau

Bangkok 1969: The death of King Rama strikes the match that will set fire to all of Thailand, and as far away as London. Former Legionnaire Nat Raven is sent to Bangkok by British Intelligence, but quickly finds...

A Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453

by C.C. Humphreys

C.C. Humphreys' masterful tale of the epic clash between East and West for Constantinople-Now in Paperback

Gregoras had vowed never to return to Constantinople, the cursed home that had betrayed and scarred...

Tainted Angel

by Anne Cleeland

It's a fine, well-dressed line between a traitor and a hero

In the tradition of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Tainted Angel takes the reader on a fast-paced adventure story in which it's never quite clear who is outwitting...

The Firebird

by Susanna Kearsley

A new time-slip romance adventure from award-winning, New York Times, and USA Today bestselling author

Nicola Marter was born with a gift. When she touches an object, she sometimes glimpses those who have owned...

Studio Saint-Ex

by Ania Szado

A sleek, stylish novel set in the sophisticated, dazzling New York of the 1940s, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the first landing of American troops in Europe—a deft, romantic novel about a wartime...

The Sweet Girl

by Annabel Lyon

From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean, a captivating, wholly transporting new novel that follows Aristotle’s strong-willed daughter as she shapes her own destiny: an unexpected love story, a tender...

A Place at the Table

by Susan Rebecca White

Celebrating the healing power of food and the magic of New York City, A Place at the Table follows the lives of three seekers who come together in the understanding that when you embrace the thing that makes...

The Boy Who Said No: An Escape To Freedom

by Patti Sheehy

As a boy Frank Medeross grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted...

Flashman and the Dragon

Flashman Papers #8

by GeorgeMacDonald Fraser

It is 1860, and while China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flash Harry hoodwinks them all.

Billie's Kiss

by Elizabeth Knox

With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and surprising, earthy, and magical qualities, this irresistible novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically...

I'll Get By

by Janet Woods

Meggie Elliot is a young woman of above average intelligence, and on the brink of adulthood. Living with her aunt and uncle in London at the outbreak of World War 2 she's intent on going to university, then...

A Texas Jubilee: Thirteen Stories from the Lone Star State

by James Ward Lee

Set primarily during the early 1940s, A Texas Jubilee is a collection of short stories about life in fictional Bodark Springs, Texas. Through these stories, author Jim Lee paints a humorous picture of the politics,...

Roman Elegy

by Sabine Gruber

A model of literary craftsmanship, a novel of the interpretation of memory and coming to terms with the past.

A Hundred Summers

by Beatriz Williams

Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions...