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The Lost History of Stars: A Novel By The Author Of Guernica

by Dave Boling

Published: 2017-06-06

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From a forgotten moment in history comes an inspiring novel about finding strength and courage in the most unimaginable places.   In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their...

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Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Published: 2017-12-05

Hardcover: 448 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace—Lord Byron’s daughter and the world’s first computer programmer.   The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romant...

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The Girls in the Picture: A Novel

by Melanie Benjamin

Published: 2018-01-16

Hardcover: 448 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a “rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies” (USA Today)—screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford “Full of Old Hollywood glamour and true detail...

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A Boy in Winter: A Novel

by Rachel Seiffert

Published: 2017-08-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. This new novel from the award-winning author of the Booker Prize short-listed The Dark Room tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in ...

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This Must Be the Place (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Maggie O'Farrell

Published: 2017-05-16

Paperback: 400 pages

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An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. Bestselling author Maggie O’Farrell captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor in what Richard Russo calls “her breakout book.” Perfect for readers of Where’d You Go, Bernadette.  Daniel Sullivan l...

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The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia

by C. W. Gortner

Published: 2017-08-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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For fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, bestselling author C. W. Gortner effortlessly weaves history and drama in this captivating novel about one of the world’s most notorious families. Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized fifteenth-century Renaissance It...

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Dear Mr. M: A Novel

by Herman Koch

Published: 2017-06-06

Paperback: 416 pages

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The tour-de-force, hair-raising new novel from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool Once a celebrated writer, M had his greatest success with a suspense novel based on a real-life disappearance. It told the story of a history...

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Reliance, Illinois

by Mary Volmer

Published: 2016-05-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"Reliance, Illinois has it all—mystery, politics, war; love, death, and art. Every page is a pleasure."—Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesIllinois, 1874: With a birthmark covering half her face, thirteen-year-old Madelyn Branch is accustomed to cold an...

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Guiding Missal: Fifty Years. Three Generations of Military Men. One Spirited Prayer Book.

by Nancy Panko

Published: 2017-04-11

Paperback: 284 pages

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In 1944, a U.S. Army baker volunteers as a forward observer to carry out covert operations behind German lines in World War II. In the early 1960s, a focused nineteen-year-old Airman is responsible for decoding critical top secret messages during the height of the Berlin Crisis. In 1993, a...

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Dickens' Greatest Christmas Books: 5 books in 1 volume: Unabridged and Fully Illustrated: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2013-11-20

Kindle Edition: 447 pages

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Dickens' Greatest Christmas Books: 5 books in 1 volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Christmas Carol: The tale has been viewed by critics as an indictment of 19th-century industrial capitalism. It has been credited with...