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Set in 1969 Maine, The Singing Trees follows a grieving young artist determined to escape her past and claim her future.
The Singing Trees
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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Set in 1969 Maine, The Singing Trees follows a grieving young artist determined to escape her past and claim her future. As Annalisa Mancuso pursues her calling in a vibrant New England art scene, an unexpected love forces her to confront loss, ambition, and a devastating lie. From bestselling author Boo Walker, a poignant story of forgiveness and second chances.
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A young artist forges a path of self-discovery in an enriching novel about forgiving the past and embracing second chances, from the bestselling author of An Unfinished Story.
Maine, 1969. After losing her parents in a car accident, aspiring artist Annalisa Mancuso lives with her grandmother and their large Italian family in the stifling factory town of Payton Mills. Inspired by her mother, whose own artistic dreams disappeared in a damaged marriage, Annalisa is dedicated only to painting. Closed off to love, and driven as much by her innate talent as she is the disillusionment of her past, Annalisa just wants to come into her own.
The first step is leaving Payton Mills and everything it represents. The next, the inspiring opportunities in the city of Portland and a thriving New England art scene where Annalisa hopes to find her voice. But she meets Thomas, an Ivy League student whose attentions—and troubled family—upend her pursuits in ways she never imagined possible. As their relationship deepens, Annalisa must balance her dreams against an unexpected love. Until the unraveling of an unforgivable lie.
For Annalisa, opening herself up to life and to love is a risk. It might also be the chance she needs to finally become the person and the artist she’s meant to be.
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The Green Count follows Sir William Gold as his search for redemption is derailed by imperial crisis.
The Green Count
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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The Green Count follows Sir William Gold as his search for redemption is derailed by imperial crisis. Tasked with securing the aid of Savoy’s powerful Green Count, William is drawn into plots, murder, and international intrigue. As loyalties strain and his past resurfaces, he must uphold his chivalric code to save a captive emperor and survive the politics of power.
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One of the finest historical fiction writers in the world - Ben Kane
After the bloody trials of Alexandria, Sir William Gold is readying for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to ease the burden on his soul. He hopes, too, that the Holy City might allow his relationship with Emile, cousin of the Green Count of Savoy, to develop.
But the Roman Emperor of Constantinople has been taken hostage by an unknown enemy, and the Green Count is vital to the rescue effort. It is up to Sir William to secure his support, but he soon finds that his past, and his relationship with Emile, might have repercussions he had not foreseen...
Suddenly thrust onto the stage of international politics, Sir William finds himself tangled in a web of plots, intrigue and murder. He must hold true to his chivalric principles, and to his knights, if he is to save the Emperor and survive to tell the tale.
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The Tenth Chamber follows a literary historian and an archaeologist drawn together by a hidden medieval manuscript discovered after a monastery fire.
The Tenth Chamber
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Pre-History | Ancient History
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The Tenth Chamber follows a literary historian and an archaeologist drawn together by a hidden medieval manuscript discovered after a monastery fire. Their search uncovers a vast prehistoric cave system and a chamber of immense significance. As deadly accidents mount, it becomes clear someone will kill to keep its secrets buried.
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A hidden manuscript. A prehistoric mystery. A deadly conspiracy.
From internationally bestselling author Glenn Cooper—whose thrillers have sold over 8 million copies worldwide—comes a gripping archaeological conspiracy novel that spans centuries.
When a fire ravages the library of a remote French monastery, a secret text is discovered behind a forgotten bookcase. The manuscript, written in the 14th century, speaks of a painted cave and contains a crude map. Sent to Paris for restoration, it captures the attention of literary historian Hugo Pineau, who turns to archaeologist Luc Simard for help.
Their investigation leads to a vast network of prehistoric caves hidden deep within the cliffs of rural France—and to the tenth chamber, a site of unimaginable significance. As the team prepares to reveal the discovery to the world, a series of fatal “accidents” suggests a more sinister truth: someone will do anything to keep the secrets of the chamber buried.
A breathtaking blend of ancient mystery and modern thriller, The Tenth Chamber is perfect for fans of Dan Brown, James Rollins, and Steve Berry.
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A strong match for readers drawn to prehistoric historical fiction, survival, cultural conflict, healing, and found family bonds.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · Women's Fiction
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read, The Clan of the Cave Bear follows Ayla, a young girl left alone after a natural disaster, as she is taken in by the Clan, learns their ways, and becomes a threat to a brutal future leader, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 13,700 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to prehistoric historical fiction, survival, cultural conflict, healing, and found family bonds.
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This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.
A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.
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A murder on the moors turns a holiday into something colder, stranger, and far more dangerous.
Hounds of Autumn
Steampunk · Sci-Fi · Alternate History
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A murder on the moors turns a holiday into something colder, stranger, and far more dangerous. In Hounds of Autumn, inventor Chloe Sullivan investigates the death of a fellow mechanical expert, following clues that lead through a haunted landscape, a shadowed manor, and the legend of a black mechanical hound. This steampunk mystery blends gothic atmosphere, clockwork intrigue, and classic investigative tension with an eerie edge.
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They say that the moor has eyes. It is 1890, and the windswept moors hold dark secrets. Chloe Sullivan is an amateur inventor whose holiday takes a dark turn when her friend and colleague, one of the few female mechanical experts in the British Empire, is murdered.
A black mechanical hound roams the moors, but could it have killed a woman? And what secrets are concealed within the dark family manor?
Accompanied by her naturalist husband and clockwork cat, Chloe is determined to see her friend’s killer found.
But some secrets have a terrible cost.
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The List follows Brent Walker as he returns to his Georgia hometown and uncovers a hidden system of control behind a powerful company’s success.
The List
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller
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The List follows Brent Walker as he returns to his Georgia hometown and uncovers a hidden system of control behind a powerful company’s success. When a cryptic code surfaces, Brent becomes entangled in a deadly plan fueled by guilt, corruption, and redemption. As secrets unravel, he finds himself targeted by forces determined to keep the truth buried.
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In the vein of David Baldacci, John Grisham, and Harlan Coben—this is Steve Berry like you’ve never read him before.
After a ten-year self-imposed exile, Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, a quaint town in central Georgia nestled close to the Savannah River. Two years ago, his father died, and now Brent, hired by Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as its assistant general counsel, is returning to care for his ailing mother.
For decades, Southern Republic has invested heavily in Concord, creating a thriving community where its employees live, work, and retire. But the genteel sheen of this quiet town is deceiving, and when a list of cryptic code surfaces, Brent starts to see the cracks.
Southern Republic’s success is based largely on a highly unorthodox and deadly system to control costs, known only to the three owners of the company. Now, one of them, Christopher Bozin, has had a change of heart. Brent’s return to Concord, a move Bozin personally orchestrated, provides his conscience with a chance at redemption. So a plan is set into motion, one that will not only criminally implicate Bozin’s two partners, but also place Brent Walker square in the crosshairs of men who want him dead—with only one course left available.
Find and reveal the shocking secret of the list.
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Junie follows a sixteen-year-old enslaved girl in Civil War–era Alabama whose grief awakens her sister’s ghost.
Junie
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Junie follows a sixteen-year-old enslaved girl in Civil War–era Alabama whose grief awakens her sister’s ghost. As secrets surface and love offers a fragile promise of freedom, Junie must decide what liberation truly demands. This haunting debut blends history, magic, and emotional survival, earning acclaim as a Good Morning America Book Club pick.
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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • As the Civil War looms, a young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost in this “poignant story of love, family and friendship [that] celebrates the power of liberation” (People).
“An enrapturing tale of survival . . . Eckstine has poured a ton of heart into her characters.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The richly textured prose quickly pulled me into [Junie’s] treacherous yet magical world.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake
Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master’s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie.
When wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junie’s life, she commits a desperate act—one that rouses Minnie’s spirit from the grave, tethered to this world unless Junie can free her. She enlists the aid of Caleb, the guests’ coachman, and their friendship soon becomes something more. Yet as long-held truths begin to crumble, she realizes Bellereine is harboring dark and horrifying secrets that can no longer be ignored.
With time ticking down, Junie begins to push against the harsh current that has controlled her entire life. As she grapples with an increasingly unfamiliar world in which she has little control, she is forced to ask herself: When we choose love and liberation, what must we leave behind?
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In 1944 Germany, resistance courier Louise is torn from everyone she loves and sent to a brutal camp where survival feels impossible.
The Girl Who Saved Them
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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In 1944 Germany, resistance courier Louise is torn from everyone she loves and sent to a brutal camp where survival feels impossible. Haunted by the sister she left behind and the airman she risked everything to save, she must cling to hope in the darkest place she has ever known. The Girl Who Saved Them is a devastating World War II novel praised by readers for its emotional power.
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“Heartbreaking… I could not put it down… Amazing… Broke my heart into tiny little pieces. As my tears ran down my face and my heartrate increased, I was holding my breath… I loved everything about this.” Page Turners
1944, Germany. Louise struggles down from the cattle car, stumbling on the platform as guards shout harsh threats to keep moving. Blinking at the rows of terrified women, hope drains from her heart as her sister’s warnings ring in her ears…
Passing through the foreboding camp gates, Louise is pointed one way with the other women branded as political prisoners. As she trips after them, her possessions stripped away, all she can think about are the faces of the people she’s left behind—her sister Marie, and the man she’s barely had a chance to love yet, William.
When she started working with the resistance to smuggle allied soldiers out of occupied Paris, she knew she was risking everything. That if she was caught, she could be sent somewhere like this. But she couldn’t have known her work would lead her to fall in love. Hiding American airforceman William in her basement, she’d gotten to know him, sharing stories over candlelight, fingers brushing and heart opening.
But in trying to keep the love of her life safe, she’d been torn away from him anyway. Standing awaiting the next order, freezing cold and trembling in terror, her mind turns over the horrors she’s heard await her and the women softly crying beside her.
Will she ever hug her sister and look into William’s bright blue eyes again? And will the fighting spirit that first led her to the resistance allow her to find a way to survive the darkest place she’s ever faced?
A heart-wrenching, emotional and inspiring World War Two page-turner about sacrifice in the name of love, and the power of hope in the darkest of places. Fans of The Nightingale, The Midwife of Auschwitz and The Choice won’t be able to put this down.
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Inside a Nazi maternity home, three women are drawn into a brutal experiment disguised as duty.
Cradles of the Reich
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Inside a Nazi maternity home, three women are drawn into a brutal experiment disguised as duty. A resistance member, a true believer, and a grieving nurse slowly realize the cost of survival inside the Lebensborn program. As fear tightens its grip, solidarity becomes their only hope. Cradles of the Reich is a chilling, deeply researched historical novel praised for its power and compassion.
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"Every historical fiction novel should strive to be this compelling, well-researched and just flat-out good." — Associated Press
For fans of The Nightingale and The Handmaid's Tale, Cradles of the Reich uncovers a topic rarely explored in fiction: the Lebensborn project, a Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race. Through thorough research and with deep empathy, this chilling historical novel goes inside one of the Lebensborn Society maternity homes that existed in several countries during World War II, where thousands of "racially fit" babies were bred and taken from their mothers to be raised as part of the new Germany.
At the Heim Hochland maternity home in Bavaria, three women's lives coverage as they find themselves there under very different circumstances. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty, she's secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only eighteen, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official's child. And Irma, a 44-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. Despite their opposing beliefs, all three have everything to lose as they begin to realize they are trapped within Hitler's terrifying scheme to build a Nazi-Aryan nation.
A cautionary tale for modern times told in stunning detail, Cradles of the Reich uncovers a little-known Nazi atrocity but also carries an uplifting reminder of the power of women to set aside differences and work together in solidarity in the face of oppression.
"Skillfully researched and told with great care and insight, here is a World War II story whose lessons should not—must not—be forgotten." — Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things
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After her mother’s death, Addie’s life fractures when a stranger claims to be her sister.
My Mother’s Shadow
Historical Fiction · Romance · Historical Romance
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After her mother’s death, Addie’s life fractures when a stranger claims to be her sister. To uncover the truth, she returns to a long-buried summer at Hartland House, where privilege hid dangerous secrets and one night changed everything. Spanning 1958 to the present, My Mother’s Shadow is a poignant family mystery praised for its evocative prose.
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An intriguing, poignant and heart-warming novel about a secret that will change everything
Addie thinks she knows everything about her mother.
But when a stranger appears, claiming to be Addie's sister, she realises that her life so far has been based on a lie . . .
'A compelling family story . . . Beautifully written' Sheila O'Flanagan
'Intriguing, twisting . . . I loved it' Dinah Jefferies
'A gripping family mystery told in lush, evocative prose' Erin Kelly
'A well-written, intriguing read full of family secrets . . . Brilliant'Fabulous
Hartland House has always been a faithful keeper of secrets . . .
1958. Sent to beautiful Hartland to be sheltered from her mother's illness, Liz spends the summer with the wealthy Shaw family. They treat Liz as one of their own, but their influence could be dangerous . . .
Now. Addie believes she knows everything about her mother Elizabeth and their difficult relationship until her recent death. When a stranger appears claiming to be Addie's sister, she is stunned. Is everything she's been told about her early life a lie?
How can you find the truth about the past if the one person who could tell you is gone? Addie must go back to that golden summer her mother never spoke of . . . and the one night that changed a young girl's life for ever.
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In A Girl Called Samson, Deborah Samson escapes servitude and disguises herself as a soldier during the American Revolutionary War.
A Girl Called Samson
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance
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In A Girl Called Samson, Deborah Samson escapes servitude and disguises herself as a soldier during the American Revolutionary War. Fighting for independence means risking exposure, violence, and her own identity. As duty and desire collide, Deborah must decide what freedom truly costs. Amy Harmon crafts a sweeping historical novel from a New York Times bestselling author known for emotionally rich storytelling.
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From New York Times bestselling author Amy Harmon comes the saga of a young woman who dares to chart her own destiny in life and love during the American Revolutionary War.
In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure.
Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in the Continental army. Her impressive height and lanky build make her transformation a convincing one, and it isn’t long before she finds herself confronting the horrors of war head-on.
But as Deborah fights for her country’s freedom, she must contend with the secret of who she is—and, ultimately, a surprising love she can’t deny.
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When drifter Dave Nash takes a job with rancher Walt Shipley, loyalty quickly pulls him into a dangerous feud.
Ramrod
Historical Fiction · Men's Fiction · Western
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When drifter Dave Nash takes a job with rancher Walt Shipley, loyalty quickly pulls him into a dangerous feud. Left behind to defend the ranch, Nash finds himself allied with Connie Dickason—beautiful, ruthless, and far more dangerous than any hired gun. As a range war escalates, desire and betrayal collide in Luke Short’s classic noir Western.
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A strong-willed woman enlists a hard-bitten gunslinger to fight a ranch war in this classic western drama from an award–winning author.
Dave Nash smells trouble the moment he rides into Signal. He's only been working for Walt Shipley three weeks, but he feels he owes the man his life for giving him a job when no one else would. Now, Nash will do anything for Shipley—even if it means staring down the barrel of a gun. He'll face any danger for his new boss, but he hasn't reckoned on the most dangerous creature of all: a conniving frontier woman.
Connie Dickason is the most seductive woman in Signal, and Shipley has his heart set on marrying her. But a brewing war with a powerful cattleman drives Shipley from town, leaving Connie and Nash to defend the ranch together. The ranch hand soon discovers that the boss's wife will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Adapted into a 1947 United Artists film starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, Ramrod is a classic noir western that displays the versatile storytelling powers of award-winning author Luke Short.
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