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The Night Watch
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A wonderful novelWaters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of characterChicago Tribune Moving back through the s through air raids blacked-out streets illicit partying and sexual adventure to end with its beginning in The Night Watch tells the story of four... |
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Bronte's Mistress: A Novel
Finola Austin - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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This dazzling debut novel for fans of Mrs. Poe and Longbourn explores the scandalous historical love affair between Branwell Bronte and Lydia Robinson, giving voice to the woman who allegedly corrupted her son's innocent tutor and brought down the entire Bronte family.Yorkshire, 1843:... |
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The House of Velvet and Glass
Katherine Howe - Voice
Format: Hardcover
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Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in , where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths... |
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Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome
Steven Saylor - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!" --USA Today on Roma Continuing the saga begun in his New York Times bestselling novel Roma, Steven Saylor charts the destinies... |
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Early Warning: A novel
Jane Smiley - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family... |
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A Hero Born: A Novel
Jin Yong - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The epic Chinese classic and phenomenon published in the US for the first time! A fantastical generational saga and kung fu epic, A Hero Born is the classic novel of its time, stretching from the Song Empire (China 1200 AD) to the appearance... |
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The Other Typist
Suzanne Rindell - Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Format: Hardcover
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"Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell’s debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.... A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced... |
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Simon the Fiddler
Paulette Jiles - William Morrow
Format: Book
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The critically acclaimed author returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart.
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Kings and Emperors: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
Dewey Lambdin - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats... |
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Sin Eater: A Novel
Megan Campisi - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Handmaid's Tale meets Alice in Wonderland in this gripping and imaginative historical novel about a shunned orphan girl in 16th-century England who is ensnared in a deadly royal plot and must turn her subjugation into her power.The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins... |
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Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Ruth Downie - Bloomsbury
Format: Paperback
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"The highest praise I can offer this wonderfully entertaining portrait of the Roman Empire at its most far-flung is that I hope Downie is planning a series. Ruso is too good a character for just one book." -- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius... |
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The Gods of Tango
Carolina De Robertis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across... |
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Under a dark summer sky
Vanessa LaFaye; Karen Chilton; Recorded Books LLC. - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincaids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate,... |
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The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" (Wall Street Journal) , "unputdownable" (The Washington Post) , "a delicious hothouse of a novel" (USA Today) , "effortless" (The Economist) , "seductive" (Vanity... |
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The Glass Ocean: A Novel
BEATRIZ WILLIAMS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century - two deep in the past, one in the present - to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.May 2013Her finances... |
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News of the World: A Novel
Paulette Jiles - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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National Book Award Finalist - FictionIt is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless,... |
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