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A big-hearted, sweeping
twentieth-century saga about the strength of
women's friendships, by the beloved author
of Keeping the House.
In 1944, Grace Anderson, Lena Maki, and
Lena's mother, Violet, are working for the
war effort at the local shipyard. Grace
dreams of a glamorous life in Hollywood,
even as she dutifully waits for letters from
Alex, her sweetheart in the Marines, and
from Derrick, Lena's twin brother. But when
Alex is killed and Derrick iis...
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The southern Kalahari area
of Botswana is a landscape of lost cities
buried beneath the moving sands, of
incredible hidden wealth, and of ancient
gods. For thousands of years it has been
home to the nomadic San people. When the
Germans lost the First World War, they also
lost the true riches of the land: the
Forbidden Coast, rich in alluvial diamonds.
A fractious ranger named Monzo is found
dead, fallen into a dry ravine, surrounded
by three San people...
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A mother's faith, a child's
bravery, and a doctor's search for healing
come together in this moving and
thought-provoking fiction debut that
explores the meaning of family, faith, and
love.
This compelling and heartfelt novel will
appeal to readers of all beliefs and
backgrounds.
Colm Francis Meaney died seven times
before his seventh birthday...
Though he might be young, Colm already knows...
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Together for over a decade,
Kyra and David Winter are happier than they
ever thought they could be. They have a
comfortable home, stable careers, and a
young son, Michael, who they love more than
anything. Yet because of their complicated
histories, Kyra and David have always feared
that this domestic bliss couldn’t last -
that the life they created was destined to
be disrupted. And on one perfectly average
summer day, it is: Michael disappears
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The acclaimed author of
The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven returns with a
breathtaking, skillfully wrought story of four women and the unbreakable
ties they share.
As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and
Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged
authority and fought for a better world. But
much...
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From the author of If Wishes Were
Horses comes a novel of long-buried secrets and self-discovery, showing
us that sometimes what goes unsaid is more powerful than words. . .
Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit her grandmother's lakeside cottage
deep in the Adirondacks—a serene getaway
that had been mysteriously closed up decades
ago. This is no simple bequest, however,
because when Chelsea finds her grandmother's
WWII diaries, she's stunned to discover that
they hold secrets she never suspected...
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The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully
written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won’t soon
forget.
Plantation Mistress Amanda Satterfield’s
grief over the loss of her daughter crosses
the line into madness. She takes a newborn
slave child as her own and names her
Granada. Troubled by his wife’s disturbing
mental state and concerned about a
mysterious plague sweeping through his slave
population...
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A young Italian woman risks her
life to defy the injustice surrounding her in this touching novel of
forbidden love in war-torn Italy.
It is autumn of 1943 when German forces invade the peaceful vineyards and
olive groves of Giovanna Bellini’s village in Tuscany. At first, the
seventeen-year-old finds herself fascinated by the dashing Nazi officers.
She has yet to come face-to-face with the harsh realities of war.
Her life changes when her brother joins the partisans and recruits her to
smuggle food. What began as a lark takes a...
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An engrossing, epic American drama told from four distinct perspectives,
spanning the first major wave of Irish immigration to New York through the
end of the Civil War.
Four unique voices; two parallel love stories; one sweeping novel rich in
the history of nineteenth-century America. This remarkable debut draws from
the great themes of literature—famine, war, love, and family—as it
introduces four unforgettable characters. Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant
whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and
the Five Points at the height of its
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Laurel Shelton and her
brother Hank are living out on farmland the locals say is cursed. And maybe
it is. Laurel is born with a large birthmark that neighbors take as a sign
of witchery. Hank loses an arm while serving overseas in WW I. When Hank
falls in love with a woman who refuses to live there, Hank secretly plans to
leave his sister behind.
But Laurel’s fate is forever altered when
she comes upon a stranger in the woods one
day, a stranger she saves from a near-fatal
accident. With only a simple haversack of
worldly belongings, including his treasured
flute and note explaining that he is mute
and bound for...
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The bestselling author of the critically acclaimed The Madonnas of
Leningrad, returns with a breathtaking historical novel, set against
the unparalleled extravagance and artifice of the royal court in eighteenth
century St. Petersburg-a world of ice palaces, glittering opera, and lavish
balls-that imaginatively reconstructs the life of one of Russia's most
revered and mysterious holy figures, St. Xenia.
Born to a Russian family of lower nobility,
Xenia is a passionate and tender dreamer who
cares little for social conventions. A free
spirit, she unexpectedly falls in love with
the dashing Andrei, a handsome soldier...
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File “M” for Murder...
Champion of the mystery section in a Minnesota library, Karen Nash is
embarking on a dream trip to London. But she’s clueless why the love of her
mid-life, Dave, would dump her hours before take-off—until she spies him at
the airport with a young honey! She decides the best revenge is to get on
that plane anyway... and entertain schemes for Dave’s untimely demise.
After touching ground in the hallowed
homeland of Christie, Sayers, and Peters,
she checks into a cozy...
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Richly detailed, vivid, and
unforgettable, this is an extraordinary
novel about three women challenging the
American West—and unpredictable fate—for a
future only the most daring can secure...
For Clara Bixby, brokering mail-order brides
is a golden business opportunity—and a
desperately needed chance to start again. If
she can help New York women find husbands in
a far-off Nebraska town, she can build an
independent new life away from her own loss
and grief. Clara’s ambitions are shared by
two other women, who are also willing to
take any risk. Quiet immigrant Elsa hopes...
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AMERICAN GHOST is a complex
and compulsively readable novel about love
and identity. Jolie Hoyt is a small town
girl living in panhandle Florida. Her father
is a Pentecostal preacher who sells
insurance on the side and her best friend is
a lively southern beauty hoping to pursue a
degree in interior design. Jolie is
ambitious, lonely, whip-smart, and
all-too-aware of her family’s closet full of
secrets and long-held distrust of outsiders.
But she throws caution to the wind when she
meets and falls in love with Sam Lense, a
Jewish graduate student ...
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A compelling thriller laced
with Simon Tolkien's signature writing style, praised by the LA Times as
“half Christie and half Grisham”.
With the publication of The Inheritance, Simon Tolkien was lauded as
a naturally gifted storyteller who possesses a terrific command of language
and a unique perception into the darker sides of human nature. Now, Simon
takes readers back to the case that started it all for Trave, the hero of
his last two critically acclaimed novels.
It’s September of 1940. France has fallen and London is being bombed...
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"Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious
thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not
comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most
unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is
fiction."
--Eudora Welty
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