Historical Fiction
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The Prague Cemetery
Nineteenth-century Europe—stretching from Turin to Prague to Paris—is a landscape of intrigue, violence, and shadowy secrets. Rival factions clash as political upheaval and paranoia give rise to plots, forgeries, and hidden agendas across the continent. Amid events like the Unification of Italy, the Paris...- $ 350.00
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The Pretender
The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to be the heir to the throne occupied by Richard III, and briefly crowned, at the age of ten, as King Edward...- $ 400.00
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The Rarest Fruit
Inspired by true events, The Rarest Fruit tells the remarkable story of resilience, curiosity, and the hidden origins of a flavor cherished around the world. Born enslaved, orphaned young, and raised by a devoted botanist on Réunion Island, Edmond Albius grows up with an...- $ 450.00
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The Red Palace
To step inside the palace is to enter a world paved with secrets—and stained with blood. Joseon Korea, 1758. Opportunities for an illegitimate daughter are scarce, yet eighteen-year-old Hyeon has carved out a quiet place for herself as a palace nurse. She wants nothing...- $ 300.00
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The Red Queen
A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In her diaries, she chronicles the intrigues of courtly life and her own extraordinary existence.Two hundred years later, the Red Queen’s ghost haunts Dr Babs Halliwell, an Oxford academic obsessed...- $ 500.00
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The Romantic
Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross lives a life as vast and unpredictable as the century itself. From the green fields of County Cork to the battlefields of Waterloo, from the quiet farms of Massachusetts to the teeming ports of Zanzibar, his journey spans continents...- $ 500.00
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The Safekeep
It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine...- $ 550.00
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The Safekeep
It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine...- $ 350.00
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The Scent of Lemon Leaves
Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with...- $ 270.00
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The Secret Chord
With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend....- $ 450.00
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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 Secret River
London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence:...- $ 350.00
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Summoned to Evelyn’s...- $ 550.00
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The Shadow King
Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut...- $ 340.00
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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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The Song of the Lark
In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines.Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path to...- $ 400.00
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The Sun Walks Down
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child,...- $ 400.00
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The Sympathizer
A Vietnam War novel unlike any other. The narrator, one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent living in America after the end of the war. A gripping spy...- $ 300.00
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The Tower
A bold, feminist reimagining of Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour—her confinement in a remote island fortress, surrounded by a few loyal women and sustained by a dangerous dream of escape and reclaimed power. Scotland, 1567. Pregnant and deposed, Mary is seized by rebel...- $ 400.00
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The Trees
A sharp, unsettling thriller that confronts the enduring legacy of lynching in America. The story begins in Money, Mississippi, where a string of brutal murders shocks the town. When two investigators from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they’re met with hostility from local officials...- $ 350.00
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The Underground Railroad
Chronicles a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits....- $ 450.00
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The Wax Child
An astounding, haunting tale of accused witches (A book of sorcery itself) from the celebrated author of The Employees and My Work. In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed...- $ 400.00
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The Women
Frank Lloyd Wright’s life was one long, howling struggle against the bonds of convention, whether aesthetic, social, moral, or romantic. He never did what was expected, and he never let anything get in the way of his larger-than-life appetites and visions. Wright’s triumphs and defeats...- $ 450.00
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The World and All That It Holds
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his...- $ 500.00
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The World and All That It Holds
As Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It’s not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled...- $ 500.00
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The Young Will Remember
In the brutal winter of 1950, twenty-eight-year-old Chinese American journalist Ellie Chang is on her way to report from the front lines of the Korean War when her military transport plane is shot down over enemy territory. Stranded deep in North Korea and surrounded...- $ 550.00
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Theft
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three young lives intersect in a quiet town in Tanzania. Karim returns from university brimming with confidence and ambition, eager to make his mark. Fauzia sees in him a possible escape from the constraints of her stifling...- $ 400.00
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To Calais, In Ordinary Time
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to...- $ 340.00
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Trust
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of...- $ 350.00
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Waiting
Set in contemporary China, the story follows Lin Kong, a military doctor caught between duty and desire, tradition and change. For over seventeen years, Lin has been in love with Manna Wu, an educated, modern woman who shares his ideals and ambitions. Yet each summer...- $ 350.00
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Wandering Stars
Colorado, 1864. After surviving the horrific Sand Creek Massacre, young Star is taken to Fort Marion Prison Castle. There, he is stripped of his language and culture by evangelical prison guard Richard Henry Pratt—who would later found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a place...- $ 450.00
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Wars of the Roses: Stormbird
In 1437, Henry VI of Lancaster takes the English throne after years under a cautious regency. Known as “the Lamb,” he is defined less by martial strength than by his devout, gentle temperament—a stark contrast to his father’s legacy. His growing reliance on trusted...- $ 300.00
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman
In this daring debut novel, Kaitlyn Greenidge tells the story of the Freeman family, who move to a research institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a mysterious experiment—raising a chimpanzee, Charlie, as part of an effort to teach him human sign language. But...- $ 450.00
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We Were the Lucky Ones
A gripping and deeply moving novel inspired by the true story of a Jewish family torn apart at the outbreak of World War II—and their extraordinary journey to survive and reunite. In the spring of 1939, the Kurc family gathers in their Polish hometown...- $ 400.00
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Weyward
“I am a Weyward, and wild inside.” 2019: Fleeing an abusive partner, Kate escapes London for Weyward Cottage, a crumbling inheritance from a great-aunt she barely knew. Among the ivy and tangled gardens, Kate begins to uncover whispers of a secret legacy—one buried since...- $ 400.00
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Wildcat Dome
Mitch and Yonko haven’t spoken in a year. Once inseparable as children growing up in an orphanage outside Tokyo, they have spent the past year mourning apart after the sudden death of Mitch’s brother. In the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, they finally...- $ 450.00
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Winter Garden
How well can we ever know ourselves if the person who gave us life remains a mystery? Sisters Meredith and Nina Whitson have spent years moving in opposite directions. Meredith stayed close to home, dedicating herself to her family and the apple orchard that...- $ 400.00
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Wolf Hall
A richly detailed, award-winning historical novel that reimagines the rise of Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant and ruthless advisor to King Henry VIII. Set in 16th-century England during a time of religious upheaval and political intrigue, the novel offers a fresh and intimate perspective on...- $ 450.00
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Workhorse
At the turn of the millennium, Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon has one goal: to climb the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. There’s just one problem—she doesn’t have the right pedigree. Clo is a hardworking “workhorse” surrounded by dazzling, well-connected “show...- $ 560.00
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Year of Wonders
A powerful and immersive historical novel set during the plague year of 1666, inspired by the true story of an English village that chose to quarantine itself to stop the spread of the Black Death. Told through the eyes of Anna Frith, a young...- $ 450.00
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