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Saints and Villains: A Novel

by Denise Giardina

Published: 1998-02-17

Hardcover: 487 pages

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An astonishing historical novel in the tradition of Schindler's List--evoking powerfully the danger and heroism of the Nazi resistance. What is the price of acting morally in a time of great evil, when sin and necessity seem twinned? Saints and Villains is a strikingly resonant novel that ...

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Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy

by Francy Gary, Jr. Powers, Keith Dunnavant

Published: 2019-01-22

Hardcover: 312 pages

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Based on newly available information, the son of famed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers presents the facts and dispels misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that turned his father into a Cold War icon..One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing of the American U-2...

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The Admiral's Baths

by Dana Gynther

Published: 2017-05-18

Paperback: 358 pages

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Tucked at the end of a narrow, crooked street in the Mediterranean city of Valencia, you may be surprised to come upon an ancient public bathhouse, a surprising relic from another time. The Admiral's Baths have stood sentry here for 700 years, through wars, reconstruction, epidemics and th...

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Moral Disorder and Other Stories

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 2008-02-12

Kindle Edition: 240 pages

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A brilliant collection of connected short stories following the life of a single woman, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale. In these eleven tales, Margaret Atwood brings to life the story of one remarkable character, following her from girlhood in the 1930...

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American Dirt: A Novel

by Jeanine Cummins

Published: 2020-01-21

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over three million copies Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in A...

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A Good Neighborhood

by Therese Anne Fowler

Published: 2021-03-02T00:0

Paperback: 336 pages

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In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, whoâ??s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmansâ??a family with new money and a secretly t...

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The Revisioners: A Novel

by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Published: 2019-11-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Following her National Book Award–nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and historically inspired story of survivors and healers, of black women and their black sons, set in the American South In 1925, Josephine is the proud...

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Invented Lives

by Andrea Goldsmith

Published: 2019-11-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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It is the mid-1980s. In Australia, stay-at-home wives jostle with want-it-all feminists, while AIDS threatens everyone's sexual freedom. On the other side of the world, the Soviet bloc is in turmoil. Mikhail Gorbachev has been in power for a year when twenty-four-year-old book illustrator ...

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After the End

by Clare Mackintosh

Published: 2019-06-25

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a deeply moving and page-turning novel about an impossible choice—and the two paths fate could take.“A beautifully written novel, compelling and clever, tender and true. I can’t stop thinking about it.”—Liane Moriarty...

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This Is Home: A Novel

by Lisa Duffy

Published: 2019-06-11

Paperback: 304 pages

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From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home. Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town no...