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Paper Bride

by Nava Semel

Seen through the eyes of an illiterate twelve-year-old boy, Nava Semel's moving, at times lyrical fiction explores life in the Palestine of the 1930s - a world where a young Jew is prepared to undertake multiple...


Watching

by Jeff Edwards

How does a young woman of wealthy parents and high birth become the owner of one of the most famous bordellos in London? We follow the life of Jade Green; the infamous Madam of The Garden of Eros, from her birth...


For the Tsar and the Raj

by Dr. Thomas E. Berry

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Prince Michael Tetov is a page for Nicholas II and is privy to wealthy Russian court society in early 1900s Russia. His mother, a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexander, socializes with the magnificently...


Classic Spy Novels 3-Book Bundle: Night Soldiers, The World at Night, Kingdom of Shadows

by Alan Furst

From Alan Furst, often compared to John le Carré, Graham Greene, and Eric Ambler, and praised as the best spy novelist ever, a trio of his classic works

 

Furst, known for panoramic vision, deep authenticity,...


The Spinoza Problem: A Novel

by Irvin Yalom

A novel by the masterful storyteller and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom interweaves the philosophical life of Benedict Spinoza with the story of the obsessive Nazi “philosopher” Alfred Rosenberg


The Family Corleone

by Ed Falco

New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that...


Tell Them I'll Be There

by Gerard Mac

New York in the 1920s: the biggest binge and the longest hangover in history. From gangsters, short skirts, and the Charleston to booming stock markets and financial mayhem on Wall Street. Of course, these exhilarating...


Dustship Glory

by Andreas Schroeder & Don Kerr

In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ocean-going ship in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. Set during the...


The Sins of the Father

by Thomas Dixon

" Today, Thomas Dixon is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling early twentieth-century trilogy that included the novel The Clansman (1905), which provided the core narrative for D.W. Griffith's...


Right and Left

by Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth has been described as "one of the greatest writers in German of this century" (The Times). With tragic foresight, Right and Left, first published in 1929, evokes the nightlife, corruption, political...


Dancing at the Chance

by DeAnna Cameron

New York City in 1907 is a kingdom of endless possibilities for anyone who dares to dream. The Gilded Age has ended, and immigrants fill the bustling streets. The glamour of Broadway lures those who desire the...


Enchantments: A novel of Rasputin's daughter and the Romanovs

by Kathryn Harrison

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Part love story, part history, this novel is a tour de force [told] in language that soars and sears.”—More

 

St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from...


Hotel Savoy

by Joseph Roth

Still bearing scars from the gulag, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets a surreal cast of characters, each eagerly awaiting the return from...


Daughter of Providence: A Novel

by Julie Drew

Summer, 1934: Anne Dodge was raised by her old-money, New England Protestant father in the small coastal town of Warwick, Rhode Island. She has always been told that her Portuguese mother abandoned them when...


The Haunting of Maddy Clare

by Simone St. James

Sarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis-rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts- has been summoned...


Dark Star: A Novel

Night Soldiers #2

by Alan Furst

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent...


The Monsoon Bride

by Michelle Aung Thin

Rangoon 1930. Winsome, raised in a convent and just married to a man she barely knows, is full of anticipation as she travels towards the great city. She does not know that it will seduce her, possess her senses...


Fu-Manchu: The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Fu Manchu #3

by Sax Rohmer

London, 1913—the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the Invisible Man. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society...


All That I Am: A Novel

by Anna Funder

All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places.

When eighteen-year-old...


Restoration

by Olaf Olafsson

A searing novel of love and war, betrayal and redemption.

Having grown up in an exclusive circle of wealthy British ex-pats in Florence in the 1920s, Alice Orsini shocks everyone when she marries the son of a...