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The Secret War of Julia ChildAn instant international bestseller and a USA Today bestseller! A Washington Post Best Historical Fiction Book of 2024!A People magazine Best Book of Fall!A New York Post Book of the Week!Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself...
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Such Quiet GirlsTen children, abducted in broad daylight-and buried alive.Sage and her sister won't make it home from school today. Neither will the other children on Bus 315. But that's only the beginning of the nightmare.New bus driver Jessa blames herself for what happened. She couldn't...
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The NightingaleA REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKA #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage,...
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark"A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer."--Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentieth-century British author of beloved novels such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The...
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An Artful DodgeVictorian London comes to vivid life in this riveting heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman's heroic plan to escape a life of crime, from the USA Today bestselling author of Down a Dark River. She's stolen gems, purses, and...
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Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust SongsAvailable for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project. While...
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Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest HighwayAn expansive and subversive history of the Pan-American Highway. A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown--even to the hundreds of motorists who annually attempt the 30,000-kilometer drive from far northern Alaska to the tip of Tierra del...
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The TunnelPerhaps even more chillingly relevant today than it was thirty years ago, this gripping and deeply personal interrogation of fascism returns to print at last in a remarkable full-color anniversary edition.The Tunnel, William H. Gass' colossal second novel, thundered onto the literary scene after...
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Jefferson's Wolf: A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of SlaveryA decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States. Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his most famous statement about American...
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Under Two Flags: A Novel of World War IWhen dreams collide with war, survival becomes the ultimate performance.In October 1916, eighteen-year-old Josephine Therese Marzynski leaves Boston for Berlin to pursue her dream of studying opera at Germany's most prestigious music conservatory. Living with family friends and immersing herself in German culture, she...
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The Last Gypsy Queen"A summer carnival whirs to life in a quiet corner of a world at war, and the lives it touches will never be the same. Linda Paul's sweeping historical romance pulled me into its world, where a forbidden love transcends cultural barriers. Her authentic...
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The Fever: The Most Fatal Plague in American History"...transports modern pandemic survivors into the bedchambers, clinics, and graveyards of a thriving American port laid low by pestilence..."-Earl Swift, author of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery"Richly reported and eloquently written, this true...
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If You LeaveIn the final year of World War II, Audrey is holding tightly to her dream of becoming a painter, while falling hard for a naval doctor. Not long after they marry he's sent overseas, leaving her alone in Washington, DC. Audrey rents a room...
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Smoke on the Water". . . will keep you wanting to turn the next page." -Richard Hess, US Air Force officer (Ret.) and coauthor of Night of the Bear In 1971, the war in Vietnam still rages. Jason Conley, a recent college graduate, finds himself paying the...
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Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century CircusThe fascinating story of how nineteenth-century circus women performed impossible feats and changed American culture.Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers: boundary-breaking women like Lavinia Warren, known as The Queen of Beauty; Millie-Christine McKoy, the Two-Headed Nightingale; and Patty...
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical ImaginationThe 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley's influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the...
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The Last WhalerTHE LAST WHALER is an elegiac meditation on the will to survive under extreme conditions. Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his remote whaling station when they...
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More Than You Know: A Suspenseful Historical Mystery Set in New York City, 1947For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Rhys Bowen, and Susan Elia MacNeal- A bold, clever Brooklyn girl fights against the odds to save someone she loves and avenge a cruel murder in post war Manhattan. New York City-Spring, 1947: The dark clouds of WWII have...
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Lafitte Lives: An Old New Orleans Bookshop MysterySecrets can't stay buried forever-but maybe some should. In bustling, multicultural 1831 New Orleans, Tobias Whitney, the sexton of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, uncovers a journal sealed inside the tomb of Dominique You-war hero of the Battle of New Orleans, privateer, and half-brother...
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I'll Come to YouWith empathy, insight, and humor, I'll Come to You chronicles the intersecting lives of one unforgettable family over the course of a year--1995--anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child in this "intimate, wise and funny" novel that's "a true gem about life's...
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