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After aging out of the system, Adira builds a life through nursing—until a job loss sends her to Oman, where she’s enchanted by the landscape and its people.
Pearl of Arabia
Biographical Fiction · Historical Fiction
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After aging out of the system, Adira builds a life through nursing—until a job loss sends her to Oman, where she’s enchanted by the landscape and its people. But as the sultan’s health falters and rivals vie for power, she discovers her own past is woven into the nation’s fate. To stop its collapse, Adira must uncover the truth before time runs out.
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The captivating saga of an American nurse uncovering her mysterious past in a land far away.
As an orphan who aged out of the system, Adira beat the odds, earning a nursing degree and finding a job at the California hospital that once saved her life. After being forced out, she turns to an enticing position in the Middle East.
Enchanted by the turquoise sea, towering mountains, and golden sands, Adira falls in love with the culture and welcoming people of Oman. But beneath the surface, the nation’s fabric is being torn apart. And she is one of the threads.
In a race against time and the men scheming for the throne of a dying sultan, only Adira can stop the Pearl of Arabia from collapse.
* 2023 American Book Fest Best Book Awards finalist
* 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards finalist
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Orphaned at ten, Thomazine Heron is sent to Goldhayes, where she must forge a place for herself amid strict expectations and rising civil unrest.
The Moon in the Water
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Romance
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Orphaned at ten, Thomazine Heron is sent to Goldhayes, where she must forge a place for herself amid strict expectations and rising civil unrest. As she comes of age, her bond with her cousin Francis deepens into a love neither dares acknowledge. Set against the turmoil of 17th-century England, The Moon in the Water begins a sweeping, emotionally rich historical saga.
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THE ASTONISHING INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER
“An extraordinary historical romance . . . One of the best to date.” Chicago Sun-Times
England, 1635. Ten-year-old Thomazine Heron’s life is shattered when a deadly illness robs her of her father and brother, leaving her an orphan and heiress. Torn from her beloved home and sent to live with distant relatives at the grand Goldhayes estate in Suffolk, Thomazine must adjust to a new world of unfamiliar faces, rigid expectations, and buried secrets
"I had been reared in an independent spirit, you see, and I took against being pushed hither and thither like a backgammon counter."
As she comes of age during the turbulent years leading to the English Civil War, Thomazine’s journey is one of transformation—from spirited child to determined young woman, fiercely loyal to those she loves and unwilling to submit to the dictates of society. In a world where family ties are tested and political allegiances are shifting, she finds strength, friendship, and the first stirrings of forbidden love.
As Thomazine grows into young womanhood at Goldhayes, amidst the tightening grip of civil unrest, her path crosses with that of Francis Heron—her cousin by blood, but her equal in spirit. What begins as childhood camaraderie deepens over the years into a bond laced with tension, loyalty, and a love neither of them dares name. In a time when duty and bloodlines dictate fate, Thomazine finds herself torn between the world she was born into and the one her heart longs to claim.
"I shall just refuse. There's little they can do to me, and whatever they do can't last forever. I'm a Heron, you see, and our motto is 'No surrender'."
The Moon in the Water is the powerful first volume in The Heron Saga, perfect for fans of Sharon Penman, Philippa Gregory, and Diana Gabaldon.
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After fighting for the Confederacy, Paul Cable returns to Arizona hoping to rebuild his life—only to find Union brothers have taken over his land.
Last Stand at Saber River
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Historical Mystery · Historical Romance · Noir · Western
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After fighting for the Confederacy, Paul Cable returns to Arizona hoping to rebuild his life—only to find Union brothers have taken over his land. With no home for his family and no faith left in the law, Cable is forced into a final, deadly conflict. Elmore Leonard delivers a taut Western about justice, survival, and a man who refuses to surrender twice.
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A quiet haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. Two brothers—Union men—have claimed his spread and they're not about to give it back, leaving Cable and his family no place to settle in peace. It seems this war is not yet over for Paul Cable. But no one's going to take away his land and his future—not with their laws, their lies, or their guns.
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In wartime Europe, fifteen-year-old Jordanna is forced into a Polish orphan labor camp, hiding her Jewish identity while clinging to hope that her mother is still alive.
The Family Behind the Walls
Historical Fiction · Romance · War Fiction · World War 2
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In wartime Europe, fifteen-year-old Jordanna is forced into a Polish orphan labor camp, hiding her Jewish identity while clinging to hope that her mother is still alive. In Auschwitz, Dalia risks everything by joining the resistance in a desperate bid to save her children. Their parallel struggles form a heartbreaking yet hopeful story of survival, courage, and a family’s unbreakable bond.
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Germany, 1943. Jordanna cries out desperately to her mother, tears spilling down her cheeks. She is being torn one way, her parents another. And in Jordanna’s terrified, wide brown eyes, there is only one question: Will I ever see you again?
Poland: Day in and day out, fifteen-year-old Jordanna holds tight to the hands of her siblings as they’re forced into back-breaking labor. They’ve been transported to a camp for Polish orphans, but at night, Jordanna weeps silently, clinging to the hope that they’re not actually orphans. That when they finally escape, their mother Dalia will be waiting with open arms. But the only thing she knows for sure is that to survive, she cannot let the cruel guards discover they are not just Polish, they are Jewish…
Auschwitz: More than a hundred miles away, Dalia shivers in her tattered striped uniform, wary eyes darting around for any sign of trouble. She’s seen other women lost to the bitter sting of the frozen air and the brutal regime and she can’t let it be her. Every day, Dalia prays that her husband will find a way to save their children. But when another prisoner approaches her about joining their secret resistance, Dalia decides to take rescuing her family into her own hands—despite the terrible danger it puts her in…
The only thing keeping Jordanna and Dalia’s spirits alive in the darkest of places is the hope that they will one day be reunited. But will Dalia fight her way out to cradle her daughter in her arms once more—or will she die trying?
A heartbreaking, emotional, yet ultimately hopeful World War Two page-turner about the strength of the love between a mother and daughter triumphing over evil. Fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Nightingale and The Choice will be blown away by this gripping, unputdownable story.
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In 1940 Paris, bookstore owner Laurence risks everything for the Resistance, her mission complicated by a downed Allied pilot and a secret that could cost lives.
The Paris Network
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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In 1940 Paris, bookstore owner Laurence risks everything for the Resistance, her mission complicated by a downed Allied pilot and a secret that could cost lives. Decades later, Jeanne inherits a ruined French bookshop from a woman she’s never met, uncovering a pendant, a hidden history, and a legacy of courage. A moving, true-inspired story of loyalty, sacrifice, and love.
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Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people of France.’
Sliding the coded message in between the crisp pages of the hardback novel, bookstore owner Laurence slips out into the cold night to meet her resistance contact, pulling her woollen beret down further over her face. The silence of the night is suddenly shattered by an Allied plane rushing overhead, its tail aflame, heading down towards the forest. Her every nerve stands on end. She must try to rescue the pilot.
But straying from her mission isn’t part of the plan, and if she is discovered it won’t only be her life at risk…
America, years later: when Jeanne uncovers a dusty old box in her father’s garage, her world as she knows it is turned upside down. She has inherited a bookstore in a tiny French village just outside of Paris from a mysterious woman named Laurence.
Travelling to France to search for answers about the woman her father has kept a secret for years, Jeanne finds the store tucked away in a corner of the cobbled main square. Boarded up, it is in complete disrepair. Inside, she finds a tiny silver pendant hidden beneath the blackened, scorched floorboards.
As Jeanne pieces together Laurence’s incredible story, she discovers a woman whose bravery knew no bounds. But will the truth about who Laurence really is shatter Jeanne’s heart, or change her future?
Inspired by true events, an epic and emotional novel about one woman’s strength to survive in the most difficult circumstances and the power of love in the face of darkness. Fans of The Alice Network, The Nightingale and The Lost Girls of Paris will be completely gripped from the very first page.
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Archaeologist Libby Snow returns to Scotland’s rugged Ullaness headland, hoping to uncover the truth behind an eighth-century legend passed down through her family.
Women of the Dunes
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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Archaeologist Libby Snow returns to Scotland’s rugged Ullaness headland, hoping to uncover the truth behind an eighth-century legend passed down through her family. When storms expose a century-old body, her excavation reveals echoes of a maid named Ellen, a Norsewoman named Ulla, and a cycle of love and violence that still shapes the Sturrock estate. A haunting mystery from Sarah Maine.
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A beautifully told and intriguing mystery about two generations of Scottish women united by blood, an obsession with the past, and a long-hidden body, from the author of The House Between Tides.
Libby Snow has always felt the pull of Ullaness, a headland on Scotland’s sea-lashed western coast where a legend has taken root. At its center is Ulla, an eighth-century Norsewoman whose uncertain fate was entangled with two warring brothers and a man who sought to save her. Libby first heard the stories from her grandmother, who had learned it from her own forebear, Ellen, a maid at Sturrock House.
The Sturrocks have owned the land where Ulla dwelled for generations, and now Libby, an archaeologist, has their permission to excavate a mysterious mound, which she hopes will cast light on the legend’s truth. But before she can begin, storms reveal the unexpected: the century-old bones of an unidentified man. The discovery triggers Libby’s memories of family stories about Ellen, of her strange obsession with Ulla, and of her violent past at Sturrock House.
As Libby digs deeper, she unravels a recurring story of love, tragedy, and threads that bind the past to the present. And as she learns more of Rodri Sturrock, the landowner’s brother, she realizes these forces are still at work, and that she has her own role to play in Ulla’s dark legend.
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A strong match for readers who like World War II historical fiction, women entering dangerous wartime work, family mysteries, and noir-inflected crime.
Manhattan Beach
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · World War 2
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A New York Times bestseller called “a magnificent achievement” by The Boston Globe, Manhattan Beach follows Anna Kerrigan from Depression-era Brooklyn to wartime work as the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s first female diver as she investigates her father’s disappearance and his ties to gangster Dexter Styles. It has a 4.0-star rating from more than 24,500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like World War II historical fiction, women entering dangerous wartime work, family mysteries, and noir-inflected crime.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad comes a sweeping historical novel set in the Depression-era and wartime New York, where a young woman’s courage transforms her life on the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and Time
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a Booklyn gangster who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.
?Years later, America enters World War II and her father has disappeared. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished.
“A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft” (The Boston Globe), “Egan’s first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you’re reading historical fiction at all” (Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.
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A family secret buried by history resurfaces when grief demands attention.
The Fourth Daughter
Asian Fiction · Historical Fiction
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A family secret buried by history resurfaces when grief demands attention. The Fourth Daughter follows Liv Kuo as she travels from New York to Taiwan to help her grandmother search for a child taken decades earlier. As stories of loss, survival, and love unfold across generations, the journey becomes one of healing, cultural memory, and reclaiming identity through family bonds and food.
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In Taiwan, the bond between grandmother and granddaughter opens up a healing world for them both in an inspiring family saga about the comfort of food, untold histories, and indomitable mother love.
Chef Liv Kuo’s star is on the rise…until a traumatic incident leaves her emotionally unable to venture outside her Manhattan apartment. But an unexpected reason to break free comes from Ah-Ma, Liv’s beloved grandmother in Taiwan. Ah-Ma needs Liv’s help in finding her fourth daughter, taken from her when the girl was an infant. After all these years, it seems impossible. It’s also a mystery: Ah-Ma’s fourth daughter is an aunt Liv never even knew existed.
After landing in Taiwan, Liv hears the heartbreaking story of her grandmother’s plight in a country once under martial law, of choices made for her, and of the hopeful search for a lost girl that has endured for more than sixty years. Like the enriching food and traditions that bind Liv and Ah-Ma, their journey for answers brings them together.
And it’s a quest that turns up both a precious old cookbook and a tale of fatal betrayal that shakes everything Liv believed about her family—revelations that could also give her the courage to face the trauma she left behind.
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In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree navigates a home filled with hidden fractures—her mother’s quick temper, her father’s drinking, and the uncle whose arrival shifts everything.
The Education of Dixie Dupree
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Coming of Age
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In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree navigates a home filled with hidden fractures—her mother’s quick temper, her father’s drinking, and the uncle whose arrival shifts everything. Known for her tall tales, Dixie turns to her diary as the truth becomes harder to face, and harder for others to believe. Donna Everhart’s debut is a resonant, haunting story of family, secrets, and survival.
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Composed in a voice as sure and resonant as that of The Secret Life of Bees, this remarkable debut from the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill is a haunting and heartfelt story of mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide – especially from ourselves.
In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for her mama Evie’s sake—to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. And sometimes the lies are to spite Evie, who longs to leave her unhappy marriage in Perry County, Alabama, and return to her beloved New Hampshire. But for Dixie and her brother, Alabama is home, a place of pine-scented breezes and hot, languid afternoons.
Though Dixie is learning that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures, even her vivid imagination couldn’t concoct the events about to unfold. Dixie records everything in her diary—her parents’ fights, her father’s drinking and his unexplained departure, and the arrival of Uncle Ray. Only when Dixie desperately needs help and is met with disbelief does she realize how much damage her past lies have done. But she has courage and a spirit that may yet prevail, forcing secrets into the open and allowing her to forgive and become whole again.
Narrated by her young heroine in a voice as sure and resonant as The Secret Life of Bees’ Lily or Bastard Out of Carolina’s Bone, Donna Everhart’s remarkable debut is a story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves.
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In 1863, Stella secretly embroiders escape maps for enslaved men in New Orleans, risking her life and her forbidden love for a Black Union soldier.
The Thread Collectors
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Romance · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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In 1863, Stella secretly embroiders escape maps for enslaved men in New Orleans, risking her life and her forbidden love for a Black Union soldier. In New York, Lily sews quilts for the war effort before embarking south to find her missing husband. Their paths collide in a city shaped by danger, hope, and resistance. Praised for its emotional power and historical depth.
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“An unforgettable story of female strength, hope and friendship. This collaborative work is magnificent—a true revelation!” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star
“A brilliant story brimming with unexpected friendships and family ties. Historically sound and beautifully stitched, The Thread Collectors will stay with you long after the last page is turned.” —Sadeqa Johnson, international bestselling author of Yellow Wife
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has to hide not only her efforts but her love for William, a Black soldier and a brilliant musician.
Meanwhile, in New York City, a Jewish woman stitches a quilt for her husband, who is stationed in Louisiana with the Union Army. Between abolitionist meetings, Lily rolls bandages and crafts quilts with her sewing circle for other soldiers, too, hoping for their safe return home. But when months go by without word from her husband, Lily resolves to make the perilous journey South to search for him.
As these two women risk everything for love and freedom during thebrutal Civil War, their paths converge in New Orleans, where an unexpected encounter leads them to discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save us. Loosely inspired by the authors' family histories, this stunning novel will stay with readers for a long time.
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Murder investigation becomes a liability when the state itself is watching.
Some Murders in Berlin
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · World War 2
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Murder investigation becomes a liability when the state itself is watching. In 1943 Berlin, psychologist Elin Lund is forced into a joint hunt for a serial killer whose crimes unsettle even a city hardened by war. Working beside a guarded German detective, she navigates political terror, hidden loyalties, and mounting obsession. This WWII historical thriller blends procedural tension, moral peril, and psychological unease under constant threat.
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This pulse-pounding, brilliantly twisting new historical thriller is a gripping tale that will leave you questioning everything.
September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart. And with her homeland now under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can’t refuse such a request.
Homicide Detective Kurt Schneider, head of the criminal police unit, is grudging in his welcome. The orders to find the killer come from the top, and to fail means death. The stakes are too high to risk any mistakes—or to trust a stranger. Yet the pair, trapped in an uneasy partnership, each has expertise the other needs. And Schneider, like Elin, is clearly guarding secrets of his own.
Racing to complete the investigation and return to her son, Elin feels the net tightening. Every sliver of evidence reveals a killer infinitely more dangerous, and more powerful, than anyone suspected. And in drawing closer to the terrifying truth, Elin has unwittingly made herself his new obsession…
A serial killer on the loose. A profiler with a hidden past. Trust is a luxury no one can afford.
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with an extraordinary sense of smell, a gift that becomes an obsession as he masters the art of perfumery in eighteenth-century France.
Perfume
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Thriller · Historical Literary Fiction · Suspense
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with an extraordinary sense of smell, a gift that becomes an obsession as he masters the art of perfumery in eighteenth-century France. Drawn toward the elusive scent of innocence, he descends into a chilling pursuit that blurs genius and monstrosity. An international bestseller, Perfume remains a landmark of dark, intoxicating storytelling.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume”—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
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