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The Secret History of Costaguana

by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

"One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

“Unlike anything written by his Latin American contemporaries” (The Financial...

The Teahouse Fire

by Ellis Avery

“Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong Kingston

The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan,...

The Death Instinct: A Novel

by Jed Rubenfeld

From the international bestselling author-"a sprawling and ambitious literary mystery" (The Seattle Times).

From a true and shocking event-the bombing of lower Manhattan in September 1920-Jed Rubenfeld weaves...

Work Song

by Ivan Doig

"[A] novel that best expresses the American spirit." -The Chicago Tribune

"If America was a melting pot, Butte seemed to be its boiling point," observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher and inveterate charmer...

Beside a Burning Sea

by John Shors

"One moment, the World War II hospital ship Benevolence is patrolling the South Pacific on a mission of mercy—to save wounded American soldiers. The next, Benevolence is split in two by a torpedo, killing...

The Movement of Stars: A Novel

by Amy Brill

A love story set in 1845 Nantucket, between a female astronomer and the unusual man who understands her dreams.

It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to...

The Night Watch

by Sarah Waters

"[A] wonderful novel...Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character."-Chicago Tribune

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying,...

Resurrection

by Tucker Malarkey

A lost past. A hidden Gospel. A shocking discovery. It's 1948, and British nurse Gemma Bastian travels to Cairo to close the affairs of her late father, staying at the home of David Lazar, her father's oldest...

Jack 1939

by Francine Mathews

Charming. Reckless. Brilliant. Deadly.

A young Jack Kennedy travels to Europe on a secret mission for Franklin Roosevelt as the world braces for war.

It’s the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe...

The Chaperone

by Laura Moriarty

The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and...

No One is Here Except All of Us

by Ramona Ausubel

In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there...

The Last Nude

by Ellis Avery

“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room

Paris, 1927. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger,...

The Little Bride

by Anna Solomon

Inspired by the little-known real history of the Jewish settlement of the Great Plains, The Little Bride is an elegantly written tale of a sixteen-year-old Russian mail-order bride stranded on the South Dakota...