Historical Fiction
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James
An urgent, unflinching reimagining of an American classic—told from the heart that was always there, but never heard. When Jim, an enslaved man in antebellum Missouri, learns he’s about to be sold and torn from his wife and daughter, he escapes to Jackson Island,...- $ 550.00
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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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The English Patient
In the final days of the Second World War, an Italian villa-turned-hospital houses four unlikely companions, each scarred—physically or emotionally—by the trauma of conflict. At the heart of The English Patient lies a mystery: the identity and past of a man lying in an...- $ 300.00
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The Bright Years
Newly married and deeply in love, Ryan and Lillian Bright seem poised for a joyful future with their baby daughter, Georgette. But beneath the surface of their fresh start lie two truths neither has shared: Lillian once gave up a son for adoption, and...- $ 520.00
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Teoh Yun Ling was just seventeen when she first heard whispers of a mysterious Japanese gardener named Aritomo. But it is not until years later—after the Japanese occupation of Malaya and the devastating loss of her sister in a brutal war camp—that she seeks...- $ 450.00
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The Gift of Rain
Set on the richly atmospheric island of Penang during the onset of World War II, this evocative historical tale follows sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton—half-Chinese, half-English, and feeling like he belongs to neither world. Estranged from both sides of his heritage, Philip finds an unexpected bond...- $ 400.00
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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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The Master
A fictionalized portrait of the renowned American-born writer Henry James, focusing on a pivotal period in his life during the late 19th century. The novel delves into James's experiences living in Europe, particularly in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London, among a circle of privileged...- $ 350.00
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The Names
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life? After a devastating storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register the birth of her newborn son. Her husband, Gordon—a respected doctor in their small community and...- $ 400.00
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Atalanta
Atalanta is a bold and reimagined tale of one of Greek mythology’s fiercest heroines—forgotten by history, but destined for greatness. Abandoned at birth for being a girl, Atalanta defies death and is raised in the wilderness by a bear and the goddess Artemis. She...- $ 500.00
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Elektra
Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront...- $ 350.00
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First Frost
It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for duty, a sudden...- $ 580.00
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Circe
Born a god. Shaped by mortals. Forged into a legend. Circe is the daughter of Helios, god of the sun—yet she is unlike any other in his shining court. Neither divine nor beloved, she is drawn to the world of mortals, where she discovers...- $ 400.00
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Shadow of Night
All Souls, Book 2. The thrilling sequel to A Discovery of Witches, catapults witch Diana Bishop and vampire scholar Matthew Clairmont into the heart of Elizabethan London—a world of alchemists, spies, and shadowy secrets. In their quest to uncover the origins of Ashmole 782,...- $ 350.00
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The All Souls Trilogy: Boxed Set
The Boxed Set by Deborah Harkness brings together the first three novels in her acclaimed series: A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life. This beautifully designed collection immerses readers in a world where history, magic and romance intertwine. The trilogy follows...- $ 800.00
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Free Food for Millionaires
The debut novel of the bestselling author of Pachinko, now with a reading group guide. Casey Han has a Princeton degree, expensive taste, and no clear plan. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she’s caught between two worlds: the disciplined, tradition-bound expectations of her Queens...- $ 450.00
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Milkman
In a city without names but thick with suspicion, middle sister tries to keep her head down. She walks while reading books, attends French classes at night, and avoids taking sides in a place where neutrality is dangerous. But when a shadowy figure known...- $ 350.00
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Antony and Cleopatra
One of Shakespeare’s great tragedies—a sweeping tale of politics, passion and power set against the backdrop of ancient Rome and Egypt. At its heart is the doomed love between Mark Antony, a Roman general torn between duty and desire, and Cleopatra, the fiercely intelligent...- $ 250.00
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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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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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History of the Rain: A Novel
Confined to her bed in the attic of her family home in County Clare, Ruthie Swain—daughter of a dead poet and survivor of a mysterious collapse—spends her days searching for the father she lost and the meaning he left behind. Surrounded by his towering...- $ 400.00
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This Is Happiness
From Booker Prize–longlisted author Niall Williams comes a luminous novel about first loves, lost chances, and the quiet transformations that mark a life. In the tiny, rain-soaked village of Faha, where nothing ever seems to change, the rain suddenly stops—and with it comes the...- $ 450.00
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
In the shadows of English drawing rooms and the tangled depths of faerie woods, magic stirs—not the gentle kind of nursery tales, but the old, capricious kind that twists fate and answers to no one. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories is...- $ 360.00
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Daughter of the Otherworld
A forgotten heir. A land on the brink. A power yet to awaken. Over a century after vanishing without a trace, Isolde—the daughter of a legendary Irish king and a powerful immortal—returns. But this is no triumphant homecoming. Her people, the Descendants, one of...- $ 580.00
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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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Bridgerton Collector's Edition: The Duke and I and The Viscount Who Loved Me
A stunning collectible edition containing the first two novels in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series. This edition features: gorgeous sprayed edges, intricate foil iconography, ribbon bookmark and beautiful endpapers. The Duke and I When Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings,...- $ 630.00
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Bridgerton Collector's Edition: To Sir Phillip, With Love and When He Was Wicked
A stunning collectible edition containing the fifth and sixth novels in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series. This edition features: gorgeous sprayed edges, intricate foil iconography, ribbon bookmark and beautiful endpapers. To Sir Phillip, With Love Sir Phillip knew...- $ 650.00
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Bridgerton Collector's Edition: It's In His Kiss and On the Way to the Wedding
A stunning collectible edition containing the seventh and eighth novels in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series. This edition features: gorgeous sprayed edges, intricate foil iconography, ribbon bookmark and beautiful endpapers. It’s in His Kiss Gareth St. Clair is...- $ 650.00
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The Original Daughter
Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the...- $ 550.00
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The Annotated Great Gatsby
100th Anniversary Celebration: A richly illustrated deluxe edition of the American classic, with illuminating commentary by a preeminent Fitzgerald scholar. Drawn from the authoritative Library of America edition of Fitzgerald’s writings, this deluxe edition features: - A new introduction by Amor Towles, bestselling author...- $ 700.00
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The Custom of the Country: Deluxe Edition
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us...- $ 450.00
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The Paris Express
Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close...- $ 550.00
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Goodbye to Berlin
First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and...- $ 350.00
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The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
It’s the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school education. At twenty, he has just met a young woman named Nimmi when he leaves to apprentice at the...- $ 350.00
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The Henna Artist
Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy,...- $ 400.00
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In a widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were censored from the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about...- $ 400.00
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Learwife
Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen.Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to...- $ 500.00
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The Ghost Rider
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider...- $ 350.00
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The Siege
It is the fifteenth century and war looms. The people of Albania have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire and they know their fate is sealed. As they take refuge in a fortress in the mountains, the army arrives and prepares to lay...- $ 550.00
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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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Matrix
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation...- $ 400.00
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The Frozen River
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in...- $ 500.00
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Harlem Shuffle
Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment...- $ 400.00
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The Armor of Light
The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work...- $ 450.00
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The Tale of Genji
Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs,...- $ 450.00
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Great Circle
After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with...- $ 300.00
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The Night Watch
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their...- $ 450.00
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Good Dirt
When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well. The crime was never solved—and because the...- $ 400.00
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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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The Curator
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so,...- $ 500.00
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