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The Invisible Woman
Erika Robuck
Historical Fiction · World War 2
In occupied France, courage means living under suspicion and knowing one wrong trust can destroy everything.

The Invisible Woman
Erika Robuck
Historical Fiction · World War 2
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In occupied France, courage means living under suspicion and knowing one wrong trust can destroy everything. In The Invisible Woman, Virginia Hall returns to the war after a devastating betrayal, determined to subvert the Nazis and protect the people still in danger. This is historical fiction shaped by espionage, grief, resistance, and the cost of defiance.
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“An extraordinary profile of immense courage and daring.”—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Left Cuba
“If you only read one WWII book this year, make it this one."—Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphans
In the depths of war, she would defy the odds to help liberate a nation…a gripping historical novel based on the remarkable true story of World War II heroine Virginia Hall, from the bestselling author of Hemingway’s Girl
France, March 1944. Virginia Hall wasn't like the other young society women back home in Baltimore—she never wanted the debutante ball or silk gloves. Instead, she traded a safe life for adventure in Europe, and when her beloved second home is thrust into the dark days of war, she leaps in headfirst.
Once she's recruited as an Allied spy, subverting the Nazis becomes her calling. But even the most cunning agent can be bested, and in wartime trusting the wrong person can prove fatal. Virginia is haunted every day by the betrayal that ravaged her first operation, and will do everything in her power to avenge the brave people she lost.
While her future is anything but certain, this time more than ever Virginia knows that failure is not an option. Especially when she discovers what—and whom—she's truly protecting.
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Savage Country
Robert Olmstead
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
Debt and desperation drive two broken people into a landscape where survival and destruction begin to look dangerously alike.

Savage Country
Robert Olmstead
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · Western
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Debt and desperation drive two broken people into a landscape where survival and destruction begin to look dangerously alike. In Savage Country, a Civil War veteran and his widowed sister-in-law cross into Indian Territory on a brutal buffalo hunt, chasing economic rescue through a violent frontier that tests their bodies, their conscience, and whatever remains of their hope.
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"The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . ."
Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead brother's debt. Together with his widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth, bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, they embark on a massive, and hugely dangerous, buffalo hunt. Elizabeth hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who now depend on her; the buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving the land.
Elizabeth and Michael plunge south across the aptly named "dead line" demarcating Indian Territory from their home state of Kansas. Nothing could have prepared them for the dangers: rattlesnakes, rabies, wildfire, lightning strikes, blue northers, flash floods—and human treachery. With the Comanche in winter quarters, Elizabeth and Michael are on borrowed time, and the cruel work of harvesting the buffalo is unraveling their souls.
Bracing, direct, and quintessentially American, Olmstead's gripping narrative follows that infamous hunt, which drove the buffalo to near extinction. Savage Country is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation. But it's also the intimate story of how that hunt changed Michael and Elizabeth forever.
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The London House
Katherine Reay
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
A family scandal becomes harder to untangle when every letter points to love, betrayal, and a wartime truth no one wanted preserved.

The London House
Katherine Reay
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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A family scandal becomes harder to untangle when every letter points to love, betrayal, and a wartime truth no one wanted preserved. In The London House, Caroline follows the trail of the Waite sisters from interwar London to 1930s Paris, uncovering a split-timeline story shaped by espionage, reputation, and the fragile bonds between women whose choices still echo generations later.
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Uncovering a dark family secret sends one woman through the history of Britain's World War II spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris to save her family's reputation. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Ariel Lawhon.
Caroline Payne thinks it's just another day of work until she receives a call from Mat Hammond, an old college friend and historian, who has uncovered a scandalous secret kept buried for decades: In World War II, Caroline's British great-aunt betrayed family and country to marry her German lover.
Determined to find answers and save her family's reputation, Caroline flies to her family's ancestral home in London, where she and Mat discover diaries and letters that reveal her grandmother and great-aunt were known as the "Waite sisters." Popular and witty, they came of age during the interwar years, a time of peace and luxury filled with dances, jazz clubs, and romance. The buoyant tone of the correspondence soon yields to sadder revelations as the sisters grow apart and one leaves home for the glittering fashion scene of Paris, despite rumblings of a coming world war.
Each letter brings more questions. Was Caroline's great-aunt actually a traitor and Nazi collaborator, or is there a more complex truth buried in the past? Together, Caroline and Mat uncover stories of spies and secrets, love and heartbreak, and the events of one fateful evening in 1941 that changed everything.
In this rich historical novel from award-winning author Katherine Reay, a young woman is tasked with writing the next chapter of her family's story. But Caroline must choose whether to embrace a love of her own and proceed with caution if her family's decades-old wounds are to heal without tearing them even further apart.
Don't miss out on this captivating split-timeline novel that takes you on a journey from the present day to the first half of the 20th century. The London House by Katherine Reay will leave you breathless as you uncover the scandalous secrets of the Waite sisters. With discussion questions included, this stand-alone novel is perfect for book clubs looking for their next read.
"Carefully researched, emotionally hewn, and written with a sure hand, The London House is a tantalizing tale of deeply held secrets, heartbreak, redemption, and the enduring way that family can both hurt and heal us. I enjoyed it thoroughly." --Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names
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The One Man
Andrew Gross
Historical Fiction · Thriller
One prisoner holds knowledge that could change the war, but reaching him means entering one of the most guarded places on earth.

The One Man
Andrew Gross
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · War Fiction · World War 2
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One prisoner holds knowledge that could change the war, but reaching him means entering one of the most guarded places on earth. The One Man follows Nathan Blum, a Jewish intelligence officer and ghetto survivor, as he takes on a near-impossible mission to break into a Nazi concentration camp and rescue a physicist the Allies desperately need. It is historical thriller fiction built on wartime stakes, moral urgency, and rescue under impossible conditions.
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“As moving as it is gripping. A winner on all fronts.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Heart-pounding…This is Gross’s best work yet, with his heart and soul imprinted on every page.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine.
Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to do more for his new country in the war. But never did he expect the proposal he receives from “Wild” Bill Donovan, head of the OSS: to sneak into the most guarded place on earth, a living hell, on a mission to find and escape with one man, the one man the Allies believe can ensure them victory in the war.
Bursting with compelling characters and tense story lines, this historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely new and compelling.
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The Shadow Network
Deborah Swift
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
A strong match for readers drawn to WWII espionage, wartime broadcasting, and divided loyalties.

The Shadow Network
Deborah Swift
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Called “A superbly plotted historical drama” by The Wishing Shelf, this novel follows Lilli Bergen, a refugee recruited to sing for a British propaganda radio station in 1942. When her former boyfriend appears, she investigates the man she believes betrayed her father to the Nazis. A strong match for readers drawn to WWII espionage, wartime broadcasting, and divided loyalties.
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‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf
One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra…
England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father was captured by the Nazis, Lilli Bergen is desperate to do something pro-active for the Allies. So when she’s approached by the Political Warfare Executive, Lilli jumps at the chance. She’s recruited as a singer for a radio station broadcasting propaganda to German soldiers – a shadow network.
But Lilli’s world is flipped upside down when her ex-boyfriend, Bren Murphy, appears at her workplace; the very man she thinks betrayed her father to the Nazis. Lilli always thought Bren was a Nazi sympathiser – so what is he doing in England supposedly working against the Germans?
Lilli knows Bren is up to something, and must put aside a blossoming new relationship in order to discover the truth. Can Lilli expose him, before it’s too late?
Set in the fascinating world of wartime radio, don’t miss Book 2 in the WW2 Secret Agent Series, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal, treachery, and courage against the odds.
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A Child for the Reich
Andie Newton
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
A mother’s worst fear becomes a mission that demands performance, deception, and impossible courage under Nazi rule.

A Child for the Reich
Andie Newton
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A mother’s worst fear becomes a mission that demands performance, deception, and impossible courage under Nazi rule. After her daughter Ema is taken for the Reich’s child program, Anna Dankova goes undercover as a loyal German subject to find her and bring her home. A Child for the Reich is emotional WWII historical fiction about stolen children, maternal devotion, and resistance shaped by love.
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From the USA Today bestselling author comes a gripping new emotional WW2 historical novel. Inspired by a true story!
‘Easily my favorite historical novel of the year If you love WWII fiction, this is a must read’ Soraya M. Lane, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Wives of War and The Last Correspondent
Rumours of the Nazis coming for Czech children swept through the villages like a breeze through the trees, and the story was always the same…
They wanted our children to raise as their own
Since her husband, Josef, joined the Czech resistance three years ago, Anna Dankova has done everything possible to keep her daughter, Ema, safe. But when blonde haired, blue-eyed Ema is ripped from her mother’s arms in the local marketplace by the dreaded Brown Sisters, nurses who were dedicated to Hitler’s cause, Anna is forced to go to new extremes to take back what the Nazis have stolen from her.
Going undercover as a devoted German subject eager to prove her worth to the Reich, the former actress takes on a role of a lifetime to find and save her daughter. But getting close to Ema is one thing. Convincing her that the Germans are lying when they claim Anna stole her from her true parents is another…
‘A powerful story told with humanity, skill and empathy’ Kate Thompson, author of The Little Wartime Library
'A moving story of a mother's love battling against the determination of the Reich to create a pure Aryan race' USA Today bestseller Glynis Peters
'An intensely moving, brilliantly researched novel about love, loss, and the lengths a mother will go to for her child' USA Today bestseller Deborah Carr
'Pulls you in on page one and never lets go! A chilling look at a Nazi program most of us have never even heard of…Historical fans will love this one!' Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker's Secret
'Oh my heart! This was such a poignant and powerful story…It will stay with me for a long time.' – Gill Thompson, USA Today bestselling author of The Lighthouse Sisters
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Twilight Territory
Andrew X. Pham
Historical Fiction
Twilight Territory follows a woman whose private longing unfolds inside a country being pulled apart by occupation, empire, and resistance.

Twilight Territory
Andrew X. Pham
Historical Fiction
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Twilight Territory follows a woman whose private longing unfolds inside a country being pulled apart by occupation, empire, and resistance. In 1940s Vietnam, Tuyet’s connection with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi draws her family closer to a conflict already reshaping their village and their future. This is historical fiction about war, love, colonial power, and one woman’s fight for independence amid national upheaval.
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A New Yorker Best Book of 2024
A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Vietnam, by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala
The peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet, Tuyet ekes out a living at a small storefront with her aunt Coi, her cousin Ha, and her two-year-old daughter, Anh. She can hardly remember her luxurious life in the city of Saigon, which she left just two years ago.
The day Tuyet meets Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi is inauspicious and stifling, with no relief from the sand-stirring wind. But to her surprise, she feels not fear or wariness, but a strange kinship. Tuyet is guarded, knowing how the townspeople might whisper, yet is drawn to Takeshi's warmth all the same. A wounded veteran with a good heart, Takeshi grows to resent the Empire for what it has taken—and the promises it has failed to keep. As the Viet Minh begin to battle the French and Takeshi risks his life for the Resistance, Tuyet and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
A lushly panoramic novel, by turns gritty and profoundly moving, Twilight Territory is at once a war story and a love story that offers a fascinating perspective on Vietnam's struggles to break free of its French colonial past. At its heart is one woman's struggle for independence and her country's liberation.
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The Third Son
Julie Wu
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
The Third Son follows a boy whose first glimpse of kindness becomes the memory that carries him through war, family cruelty, and exile.

The Third Son
Julie Wu
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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The Third Son follows a boy whose first glimpse of kindness becomes the memory that carries him through war, family cruelty, and exile. Saburo grows up in Japanese-occupied Taiwan as the unwanted son, fighting for education, love, and a future beyond the limits placed on him. This is historical fiction shaped by survival, longing, and the difficult hope of building a life across continents.
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"A boy growing up in Japanese-occupied Taiwan . . . will do anything to escape his tormenting family and reconnect with his first love . . . Compelling" (O, The Oprah Magazine).
In the middle of a terrifying air raid in 1940s Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a forest for cover. It's there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is a moment he will remember forever, and for years he will try to find her again. When he finally does, she is by the side of his oldest brother and greatest rival.
In Saburo, author Julie Wu has created an extraordinary character, determined to fight for everything he needs and wants, from food to education to his first love. The Third Son is a sparkling and moving story about a young boy with his head in the clouds who, against all odds, finds himself on the frontier of America's space program.
"Clear your schedule! The Third Son is your next obsessive read. Julie Wu's book reads like an instant classic." —Lydia Netzer, bestselling author of Shine Shine Shine
"I was entranced by this tale of an immigrant who boldly makes a new future for himself out of the wreckage of a Dickensian childhood. . . . A universal story that will have everyone cheering for Saburo and Yoshiko, two lovers whose faith in each other spans continents and oceans." —David Abrams, author of Fobbit
"Deceptively simple, deeply compelling . . . An unusually awful sibling rivalry, a stunningly pure and inspiring love story." —The Boston Globe
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Banyan Moon
Thao Thai
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
As Ann returns to Florida, she faces her estranged mother, Huơng, the crumbling Banyan House, and the secrets left behind by Minh, making this a strong fit for…

Banyan Moon
Thao Thai
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Banyan Moon begins with a death that brings three generations of grief, resentment, and inheritance back under one roof. As Ann returns to Florida, she faces her estranged mother, Huơng, the crumbling Banyan House, and the secrets left behind by Minh, making this a strong fit for readers drawn to layered family dramas about mothers, daughters, migration, and the past’s long reach.
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A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick
"A riveting mother-daughter tale." — Elle
"Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington Post
A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste—but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng.
Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together.
Running parallel to this is Minh’s story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House’s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life—and beyond.
Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.
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Arctic Sun
Jack Grimwood
Historical Fiction · Thriller
This espionage thriller fits readers who want Arctic atmosphere, political danger, personal stakes, and conspiracies built on silence.

Arctic Sun
Jack Grimwood
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · War Fiction
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Arctic Sun turns a remote Soviet investigation into a frozen Cold War trap where secrets carry lethal consequences. When Dr. Amelia Blackburn uncovers signs of a hidden disaster near the Norway-Russia border, British intelligence pulls reluctant spy Tom Fox back into the field. This espionage thriller fits readers who want Arctic atmosphere, political danger, personal stakes, and conspiracies built on silence.
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THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
‘Strange alliances, personal vendettas and Cold War conspiracies build to a bloody climax in the snow’ - The Times Thriller of the Month
‘This is a proper page-turning high-stakes thriller’ Crime Time
From the award-winning author of Moskva and Nightfall Berlin, a gripping suspense-filled thriller in the frozen North . . .
Kola Peninsula, 1987. High in the Soviet Arctic, a tiny village houses an apocalyptic secret . . .
When research zoologist Dr Amelia Blackburn ventures north to investigate the ravages of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, she stumbles on the evidence of another sinister disaster on the Norway-Russia border - one that appears far from innocent. Mother Russia will stop at nothing to prevent this information from being revealed, putting Amelia and her team in grave danger from the moment they leave the site.
When the news reaches London, the eyes of British intelligence turn to the one man with the knowledge and skills to bring her back to safety - and find out what has really happened in the frozen North.
Major Tom Fox thought he'd put his intelligence career behind him, but wrapped in a custody battle for his young son, Charlie, a request from his high-ranking father-in-law forces his hand. When the reluctant spy reaches Russia, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary mission.
As Fox and Amelia fight for their lives - and their country - in Russia, Charlie is lead into dangers of his own in England. Three lives are about to be embroiled in the darkest secrets of the Cold War conflict - and a plot that, if left unchecked, will echo through history . . .
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The Eagle’s Claw
Jeff Shaara
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
A broken nation needs one decisive victory, but intelligence alone cannot win the battle waiting in the Pacific.

The Eagle’s Claw
Jeff Shaara
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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A broken nation needs one decisive victory, but intelligence alone cannot win the battle waiting in the Pacific. The Eagle’s Claw follows code breakers, commanders, pilots, Marines, and Japanese admirals through the Battle of Midway, shaping a military historical novel about strategy, courage, and the choices that changed the course of World War II.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a “riveting” (Booklist) tale that picks up where To Wake the Giant left off, Jeff Shaara transports us to the Battle of Midway in another masterpiece of military historical fiction.
Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow the Japanese inflicted at Pearl Harbor. But the Americans are determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known “code breaker” who cracks the Japanese military encryption. With Rochefort’s astonishing discovery, Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning.
But the battle to counter those plans must still be fought.
From the American side, the shocking conflict is seen through the eyes of Rochefort and Admiral Nimitz, as well as fighter pilot Lieutenant Percy “Perk” Baker and Marine Gunnery Sergeant Doug Ackroyd.
On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is the mastermind. His key subordinates are Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, aging and infirm, and Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, a firebrand who has no patience for Nagumo’s hesitation. Together, these two men must play out the chess game designed by Yamamoto, without any idea that the Americans are anticipating their every move on the sea and in the air.
Jeff Shaara recounts in electrifying detail what happens when these two sides finally meet, in what will be known ever after as one of the most definitive and heroic examples of combat ever seen. In The Eagle’s Claw, he recounts, with his trademark you-are-there immediacy and signature depth of research, one single battle that changed not only the outcome of a war but the course of our entire global history.
The story of Midway has been told many times, but never before like this.
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The Muralist
B. A. Shapiro
Historical Fiction · Mystery
The Muralist moves between wartime New York and the modern art world as one woman’s disappearance leaves behind secrets hidden in plain sight.

The Muralist
B. A. Shapiro
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Historical Mystery
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The Muralist moves between wartime New York and the modern art world as one woman’s disappearance leaves behind secrets hidden in plain sight. When Danielle Abrams uncovers mysterious paintings connected to her vanished great-aunt, Alizée Benoit, she begins tracing a past shaped by art, exile, and political danger, making this a layered historical mystery about family history, creative legacy, and the cost of being seen.
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“Vibrant and suspenseful . . . Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist.” —The Washington Post
“B. A. Shapiro captivated us in 2012 with her ‘addictive’ novel The Art Forger. Now, she’s back with another thrilling tale from the art world.” —Entertainment Weekly**
When Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who while working at Christie’s auction house uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now-famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt?
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