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The Stolen Marriage

Diane Chamberlain · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain at the top of her talent.One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello's life is changed...
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

Gail Honeyman · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon."Warm and funny...plus Reese bought the rights to this one...You'll want to read it." - TheSkimm"A charmer...satisfyingly quirky." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Books to Breeze Through This Summer"...
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The Essex Serpent: A Novel

SARAH PERRY · Custom House
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year, selected as the Waterstones Book of the Year, and a Costa Book Award Finalist"A novel of almost insolent ambition--lush and fantastical, a wild Eden behind a garden gate...it's part ghost story...
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All She Left Behind

Jane Kirkpatrick · Revell
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s doesn't approve of such innovations as women attending medical school. To leave grief and guilt behind, as well as support herself and her challenging...
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The Burning Girl: A Novel

CLAIRE MESSUD · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children.Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their...
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House of Shadows: An Enthralling Historical Mystery

Nicola Cornick · Graydon House
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

The wooded hills of Oxfordshire conceal the remains of the aptly named Ashdown House - a wasted pile of cinders and regret. Once home to the daughter of a king, Ashdown and its secrets will unite three women across four centuries in a tangle of romance, deceit and destiny ... In the winter...
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Seven Days of Us: A Novel

FRANCESCA HORNAK · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays...It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter - who is usually...
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The Ice-Cream Makers: A Novel

ERNEST VAN DER KWAST · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this international bestseller, a poet struggles to decide if he should put his family's or his own needs first when he returns to Italy help run the ice cream dynasty he left behind years ago in this charming tale perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove.As the heir to a proud Northern Italian...
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The Four Swans: A Novel of Cornwall, 1795-1797

Winston Graham · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 581
Format: Print book

Just when Ross Poldark, now something of a war hero, seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, he must confront a new dilemma: the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer with his wife Demelza.And it soon becomes evident that Demelza is not the only woman close to him whose life is in turmoil....
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The Bird in the Tree

Elizabeth Goudge · Hendrickson Pub; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Introducing the beloved trilogy that has captured the hearts and imaginations of the many fans of bestselling author Elizabeth Goudge. "The Bird in the Tree "takes place in England in 1938, and follows a close-knit family whose tranquil existence is suddenly threatened by a forbidden...
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Hannah Coulter

Wendell Berry · Shoemaker & Hoard
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback

"Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others...
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The Life She Was Given

ELLEN MARIE WISEMAN · Kensington
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback

From acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman comes a vivid, daring novel about the devastating power of family secrets - beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s.On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood...
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If the Creek Don't Rise: A Novel

LEAH WEISS · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 305
Format: Paperback

"[A] striking debut..." -- BUSTLE "...masterful use of language....Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big Stone Gap books, by Adriana Trigiani, and Mitford series, by Jan Karon." -- BOOKLIST , STARRED ReviewHe's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta...
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The Black Moon: A Novel of Cornwall, 1794-1795

Winston Graham · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

When Ross Poldark's former beloved gives birth to a son -- with his enemy George Warleggan -- Ross must face the pain of losing her all over again.But soon they discover her cousin has fallen in love with Ross's brother-in-law, and the two families become entangled in surprising...
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Manhattan Beach: A Novel

Jennifer Egan · Scribner
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad - "propulsive, surprising, ravishing, and revelatory ... a profound page-turner that will transport and transform every reader."...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is story - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual...
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The Library of Light and Shadow: A Novel

M J Rose · Atria Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting and richly drawn novel from "one of the master storytellers of historical fiction" (New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams) , a talented young artist flees New York for the South of France after one of her scandalous drawings reveals a dark secret...
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Grief Cottage

Gail Godwin · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive...
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A Dangerous Legacy

Elizabeth Camden · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Page-Turning Romance and Intrigue in Award-Winning Author's Next Historical NovelLucy Drake's mastery of Morse code has made her a valuable asset to the American news agencies as a telegrapher. But the sudden arrival of Sir Colin Beckwith at rival British news agency Reuters puts her hard-earned...
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My Name Is Aram

William Saroyan · Dover Publications
Pages: 151
Format: Book

Hailed by "The New York Times" as "marvelously captivating, " William Saroyan's 1940 international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the twentieth century. Based on the author's loving and eccentric extended...
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The Revolution of Marina M.

JANET FITCH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover

From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young womanSt. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints...
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