Historical Fiction
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Hand That First Held Mine
From the best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life,...- $ 400.00
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Hard By A Great Forest
Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to a stirring novel about what happens after the fighting is over “My mother stayed, so that we could go.” Having fled conflict in the...- $ 470.00
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Homegoing
In 18th-century Ghana, two half-sisters are born in separate villages, unaware of each other's existence. One is married off to a British colonizer and lives in luxury within the Cape Coast Castle. The other is seized during a raid, imprisoned in that same fortress,...- $ 250.00
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Horse
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named...- $ 350.00
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House of Meetings
A dark, gothic story about two brothers, one woman, and the terrible choices that follow them for decades. In 1946 Moscow—still shaken by war and rising antisemitism—the brothers fall in love with the same Jewish girl, creating a quiet but dangerous rivalry. Their lives...- $ 350.00
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Inland
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder...- $ 400.00
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James
When Jim, an enslaved man in antebellum Missouri, learns he’s about to be sold away from his family, he flees to Jackson Island, determined to claim his own fate. At the same time, Huck Finn stages his death to escape his violent father. Together,...- $ 550.00
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James
When Jim, an enslaved man in antebellum Missouri, learns he’s about to be sold away from his family, he flees to Jackson Island, determined to claim his own fate. At the same time, Huck Finn stages his death to escape his violent father. Together,...- $ 350.00
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Kantika
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika―“song” in Ladino―follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of...- $ 400.00
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Kin
Vernice and Annie grow up side by side in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, best friends, neighbors, and motherless daughters bound by childhood intimacy yet destined for very different futures. Though their beginnings are marked by loss, the paths they take diverge sharply as they come of...- $ 400.00
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Land
In 1865, on a windswept peninsula jutting into the Atlantic, Tomás and his young son, Liam, work tirelessly on the monumental Ordnance Survey project to map all of Ireland. In a country still scarred and depopulated by the Great Hunger, their task is as...- $ 550.00
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the...- $ 300.00
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Lázár
Set at the dawn of the twentieth century, the story begins with the birth of a mysterious child in a secluded rural estate, surrounded by a dark and beguiling forest. From the moment Lajos arrives—his strange appearance unsettling his family—an air of unease takes hold....- $ 500.00
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Learned by Heart
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers, not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping on the other side of the box room. The...- $ 500.00
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Lessons in Chemistry
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a...- $ 500.00
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Library for the War-Wounded
The internationally bestselling novel-a daughter's portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory.We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the...- $ 500.00
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Long Island
From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work in twenty years. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian...- $ 500.00
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Long Island
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family. It...- $ 500.00
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Love Is Blind
When Brodie Moncur, a gifted young piano tuner, is offered the chance to work for a renowned pianist, he steps into a world far removed from his modest Scottish roots—a life of travel, refinement, and artistic brilliance. As he follows his employer on an...- $ 350.00
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March
A powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with...- $ 450.00
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McGlue
Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue lies in the ship’s hold, too drunk to know his own name, his bearings, or his fate—only that he may have killed a man. That man might have been his closest friend. Sobriety brings no clarity, only the crush of...- $ 250.00
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Memory Piece
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,” they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on...- $ 500.00
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Mr. Wilder and Me
A naive young woman called Calista finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realization that his star may be on the...- $ 450.00
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Mutual Interest
At the turn of the 20th century, Vivian Lesperance is determined to escape the narrow expectations of her working-class upbringing in Utica, New York. When she meets Oscar Schmidt, a modest soap company employee with little interest in women, she sees an opportunity—not for...- $ 450.00
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My Father’s House
September 1943: German forces have Rome under their control. Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann rules over the Eternal City with vicious efficiency. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war’s outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, Jews, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into...- $ 450.00
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Never
A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young...- $ 450.00
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Night Watch
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her...- $ 400.00
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Night Watch
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her...- $ 400.00
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Nothing Special
Set in New York City, 1966, Nothing Special follows Mae, a disillusioned seventeen-year-old adrift in a world of dead-end expectations. Living in a crumbling apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother’s drifting boyfriend, Mae finds herself alienated from both the shallow cliques of high...- $ 450.00
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Obasan
A powerful novel that explores the internment and persecution of Japanese Canadians during and after World War II. Told through the eyes of Naomi Nakane, a quiet and introspective schoolteacher, the story weaves together memory, history and personal trauma. After the death of her beloved...- $ 400.00
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One Good Thing
Italy, 1940. Lili and Esti have been inseparable since their university days. When Esti’s son, Theo, is born, their friendship deepens into something like sisterhood. Even as war rages across Europe, they manage to carve out moments of ordinary life—until Germany invades Italy and...- $ 300.00
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Out Stealing Horses
“We were going out stealing horses,” he said, standing in the doorway of the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948, one of the first days of July. Jon often arrived at Trond’s door with...- $ 350.00
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Outlander
Scottish Highlands, 1945. Recently returned from the war, former British combat nurse Claire Randall is reunited with her husband for a second honeymoon when an accidental step through a standing stone in an ancient circle changes everything. In an instant, she becomes a Sassenach—an...- $ 350.00
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Outlawed
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year...- $ 300.00
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Pachinko
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses...- $ 400.00
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Pearly Everlasting
New Brunswick, 1934. When a cook in a logging camp finds an orphaned baby bear, he brings it home to his wife, who names the cub Bruno and raises him alongside her newborn daughter, Pearly. Growing up, Pearly and Bruno share a special bond...- $ 600.00
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People of the Book
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called “a tour de force” by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey...- $ 450.00
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Pull of the Stars
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen...- $ 350.00
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Real Americans
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir...- $ 550.00
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Redeployment
How do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend?How does it feel to see fear in your wife's eyes?What does it mean to come home? In one of the most acclaimed and celebrated collections of stories for years, Redeployment takes...- $ 550.00
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Remarkable Creatures
A stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a...- $ 400.00
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Restless Dolly Maunder
Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those...- $ 450.00
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Restless Dolly Maunder
The Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life. Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming...- $ 450.00
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Ripeness
In the 1960s, young Edith is sent from England to a remote village in Italy with a solemn task: care for her pregnant sister, Lydia, whose career as a ballet dancer has been upended by scandal. Edith is to witness the birth, make a...- $ 550.00
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River East, River West
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world—perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy,...- $ 550.00
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, is considered by many to be the first novel in English, and its success was so enormous that by the end of the nineteenth century it had spawned more translations and versions than any other previous English book. An...- $ 220.00
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Salvage the Bones
A hurricane is gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the small coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's father, a hard drinker and mostly absent, is suddenly anxious—but for once, it's not the bottle he reaches for. Esch and her three brothers...- $ 350.00
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Same Bed Different Dreams
March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split...- $ 400.00
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Scaffolding
Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor―a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the...- $ 550.00
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Sense and Sensibility
In 1811, Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England’s premier novelist of manners. Believing that “3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on,” she created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and...- $ 150.00
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