Historical Fiction
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
In the moments following her murder, as her body lies discarded in a dumpster on the outskirts of Istanbul, Tequila Leila’s mind remains startlingly alive—for exactly 10 minutes and 38 seconds. In that liminal space between life and death, her consciousness floods with vivid...- $ 500.00
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A Fine Balance
With the emotional depth and storytelling power reminiscent of Charles Dickens, A Fine Balance is a sweeping, compassionate portrait of India during one of its most turbulent periods. The year is 1975. In an unnamed coastal city, the government has declared a State of...- $ 350.00
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced in 1922 to lifelong house arrest—not in a prison, but within the elegant walls of the Hotel Metropol. Stripped of his former status and confined to a small attic room, the Count faces the sweep of Russian history not...- $ 300.00
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A Lost Lady
A Lost Lady is a poignant portrait of a woman caught between eras—both a symbol of fading frontier ideals and a quiet rebel against the constraints of her time. To the citizens of Sweet Water, a dwindling railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs....- $ 400.00
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A Mercy
A Mercy unfolds in the 1680s, during the early days of the American slave trade—a time when borders are fluid, allegiances uncertain, and the idea of freedom is as fragile as life itself. Jacob Vaark, an Anglo-Dutch trader in the harsh northern colonies, reluctantly...- $ 550.00
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A Room Made of Leaves
In 1788, young Elizabeth Macarthur embarks on a journey that will change her life forever. Newly married to the domineering and impulsive soldier John Macarthur, she soon regrets the union. When the couple is sent to the distant penal colony of New South Wales,...- $ 450.00
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A Spell of Good Things
A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days...- $ 550.00
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A Spell of Good Things
A Spell of Good Things delivers a powerful portrait of contemporary Nigeria through the intersecting lives of two unforgettable characters. Eniola, a teenage boy forced into maturity too soon, struggles to survive after his father loses his job—running errands, scavenging newspapers, and holding fast...- $ 400.00
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A Tale for the Time Being
After the 2011 tsunami, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Inside, novelist Ruth discovers a diary written by Nao, a sixteen-year-old girl in Tokyo grappling with deep loneliness, bullying, and thoughts of ending her life. Before...- $ 400.00
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A Tale for the Time Being
After the 2011 tsunami, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Inside, novelist Ruth discovers a diary written by Nao, a sixteen-year-old girl in Tokyo grappling with deep loneliness, bullying, and thoughts of ending her life. Before...- $ 300.00
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A Volga Tale
Spanning from the twilight of the 19th century through the upheavals of the 20th, The Volga traces the fate of Jakob Bach, a quiet schoolteacher whose love affair with Klara Grimm upends both their lives. Banished from their Volga German colony for defying convention,...- $ 580.00
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Against the Loveless World
Locked in solitary confinement, Nahr spends her days tracing the winding path that brought her to a prison cell in a land she barely knows. Born in 1970s Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents, she once dreamed of love, family, and opening her own beauty...- $ 450.00
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Alias Grace
In 1843, Grace Marks was convicted for her role in the brutal murders of her employer and his housekeeper, yet her involvement remains shrouded in mystery. Some believe Grace is innocent, while others think she is either evil or mad. Now serving a life...- $ 350.00
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All the Light We Cannot See
Marie-Laure, a young girl who goes blind at the age of six, lives with her father near the Museum of Natural History in Paris, where he works as the master of its locks. To help her navigate the world, her father builds a miniature...- $ 400.00
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An Artist of the Floating World
In a time of hardship, artist Masuji Ono refused to paint mere beauty. Instead, he devoted his work to the imperialist cause that carried Japan into World War II. Now older, Ono lives in the war’s shadow. As he reflects on his youth and...- $ 400.00
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An Imaginary Life
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso—Ovid—the witty and worldly poet of imperial Rome, is exiled to a desolate outpost on the edge of the Black Sea. From this fragment of historical fact, David Malouf weaves a bold and deeply affecting novel of...- $ 350.00
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
In 1985, Anita de Monte, a brilliant young artist poised for greatness, is found dead in New York City. Her name burns brightly—for a moment—before fading into the noise of a city quick to forget women like her. By 1998, her legacy is little...- $ 350.00
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Any Human Heart
A sweeping, fictional autobiography that follows the life of Logan Mountstuart, a British writer, through the 20th century. Told through a series of intimate journal entries, the novel traces Logan’s journey from his privileged schooldays in 1920s England through a tumultuous life marked by personal...- $ 350.00
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At Night All Blood Is Black
When Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese man fighting alongside the french army as a "Chocolat" refuses to end his best friend’s suffering on the battlefield, the decision shatters him. To avenge the loss and silence his own shame, Alfa begins a chilling ritual—crossing enemy lines...- $ 260.00
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At the Edge of the Orchard
From the swamps of Ohio to the sequoias of California, one family’s roots run deep—and dark. In 1838, James and Sadie Goodenough plant apple trees to tame the Ohio frontier—but their marriage, like the land, is harsh and unforgiving. He clings to sweet apples...- $ 400.00
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Atmosphere
Joan Goodwin has always found comfort in the stars, living a quiet life as a physics professor and devoted aunt. But everything changes in 1980, when she answers a groundbreaking NASA call for women scientists to join the Space Shuttle program. Thrust into the...- $ 560.00
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Atmosphere
Joan Goodwin has always found comfort in the stars, living a quiet life as a physics professor and devoted aunt. But everything changes in 1980, when she answers a groundbreaking NASA call for women scientists to join the Space Shuttle program. Thrust into the...- $ 350.00
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Atmosphere: Deluxe Paperback Edition
The first edition paperback of Atmosphere features stenciled edges with a sunset cloud pattern! Joan Goodwin has always found comfort in the stars, living a quiet life as a physics professor and devoted aunt. But everything changes in 1980, when she answers a groundbreaking...- $ 350.00
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Beloved
Haunted by trauma and memory, Sethe is a woman who escaped slavery but cannot escape its scars. Living in a house shadowed by a restless spirit—the ghost of her baby, whose tombstone bears only the word Beloved—Sethe tries to forge a life of peace...- $ 700.00
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Beyond the Blossoming Fields
As a young girl from a wealthy family, Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of nineteenth-century Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhoea from her husband, she suffers the ignominy of divorce. Forced to bear the humiliation of being...- $ 300.00
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Bog Queen
When a remarkably preserved body is unearthed from a peat bog in northwest England, American forensic anthropologist Agnes is called in to investigate. The remains date back over two thousand years, yet the corpse is eerily intact—sparking a storm of interest that reaches far...- $ 400.00
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Boy, Snow, Bird
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his winsome...- $ 450.00
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Bring Up the Bodies
The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry...- $ 300.00
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Broken Country
Beth and her gentle husband, Frank, live a quiet, contented life in the English countryside—built carefully on love, routine, and the unspoken understanding that some memories are best left untouched. But everything changes with a single gunshot: when Frank’s brother kills a dog harassing...- $ 500.00
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Brooklyn
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following...- $ 400.00
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Brotherless Night
Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting...- $ 400.00
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Buckeye
In the quiet town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a fleeting moment of passion in the jubilant days following the Allied victory in Europe forever binds two families. Cal Jenkins—wounded not by war, but by his failure to fight in it—finds himself drawn to Margaret Salt,...- $ 400.00
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By Any Other Name
Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares...- $ 450.00
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Caleb's Crossing
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond...- $ 450.00
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Carrie Soto Is Back
By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become...- $ 400.00
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Crescendo
A gripping love triangle in glamorous 1950s Paris. In 1957, celebrated pianist Max Kitson—once a prodigy—begins faltering onstage and abruptly cancels his world tour. Without telling his twin sister and manager, Natasha, he retreats to the home of a mysterious French patron, Henri—unaware that...- $ 500.00
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Crimson Petal and the White
So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can. Be prepared for...- $ 400.00
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Daughters of Shandong
A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story Daughters are the Ang family’s curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese...- $ 400.00
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Demon Copperhead
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent...- $ 500.00
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
The narrative unfolds through the perspectives of Marie, a young woman in Vancouver, and Ai-Ming, a Chinese émigré, as they delve into the lives of their families and the profound impact of China's tumultuous 20th-century history on their identities and destinies. Marie’s father, Kai,...- $ 350.00
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Euphoria
A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and...- $ 330.00
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Euphoria
In 1933, three brilliant young anthropologists find their lives entangled deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Nell Stone—magnetic, trailblazing, and notorious for her provocative fieldwork—arrives with her fiercely ambitious husband, Fen. Their volatile partnership is upended when they cross paths with Andrew Bankson,...- $ 320.00
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Finding Margaret Fuller
Massachusetts, 1836. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated “Sage of Concord,” to meet his coterie of enlightened friends shaping a nation in the throes of its own self-discovery. By the end of her...- $ 430.00
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Firefly Lane
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart...- $ 400.00
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Firefly Lane
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart...- $ 400.00
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Foucault's Pendulum
Blending history with gripping suspense, this international bestseller by Umberto Eco explores how a playful idea can spiral into deadly consequences. What begins as a literary joke soon turns into a chilling confrontation with belief, obsession, and power. When a man claiming to have...- $ 450.00
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Fugitive Pieces
A poetic and profoundly moving exploration of loss, memory and the enduring echoes of trauma. Jakob Beer is a Polish Jewish boy who survives the Holocaust after witnessing the murder of his family. Hidden in the forests of Poland, Jakob is rescued by Athos, a...- $ 500.00
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a...- $ 400.00
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Glassworks
A multigenerational portrait of desire, reinvention, and the fragile beauty of what we leave behind. In 1910, Agnes Carter, once a fiercely independent patron of the sciences, finds herself trapped in a suffocating marriage to a cruel and reckless man. When she meets Ignace...- $ 450.00
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Hamnet
England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in...- $ 400.00
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