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The Map of Bones"Vivid historical detail, headlong pace, and gratifyingly feminist finale... this sends out Mosse's saga on a high note." Publishers Weekly "The detailed, woman-centric series showcases her talents as a storyteller and is both well-considered and well-written." Library JournalA sweeping story of love, adventure and...
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The Boxcar LibrarianInspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman's quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library--a converted mining train that brought books to isolated rural towns in...
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Julia: A Novel Inspired by the Extraordinary Life of Julia ChildBefore she stepped into the spotlight as a master of French cooking, Julia Child navigated the shadows as a WWII intelligence officer. On the sunny shores of California, Julia McWilliams is poised to embrace a life of comfort and financial security, with a marriage...
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The Girls of the Glimmer FactoryTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER!"A gripping, powerful read. A valuable lesson for our own times." --Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzFrom the author of Cradles of the Reich comes a poignant and inspiring tale for fans of The Forest of...
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Dear Miss Lake"It's hard to accept that this is the end of the Emmy Lake series, but if there has to be an end, let it be this one: Dear Miss Lake. Sheer joy!" --Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry Plucky wartime advice columnist Emmy...
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A Bomb Placed Close to the HeartNamed a Summer Read by: New York Times * Los Angeles Times * Minneapolis Star Tribune * The MillionsAn expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War IAt a party near Stanford University's campus...
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World PacificA darkly comic novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention from the author of The Torqued Man, set in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War.In 1939, just as the clouds of war are gathering,...
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Gardens of the Gilded Age: Lavish Landscapes from America's Golden EraStep into the era when American wealth created landscapes that rivaled European royalty and discover the magnificent gardens that still captivate visitors today. During the Gilded Age in America (1870-1920), wealthy industrialists, such as the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and Gardeners, built extravagant homes and gardens...
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Gunner: A Joseph Gunner ThrillerInspired by the true story of a secret mission taken during World War II, Gunner is the atmospheric, exciting start of a suspenseful new thriller series. March 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the streets of Glasgow after being wounded on the front lines...
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Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone MagazineHow the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism. Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the origins and evolution of the magazine during its formative early years in San Francisco....
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Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American CommunismA survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen letters to the Red Scare and beyond. Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and ending only with the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, the U.S....
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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, Revised and Updated EditionCaptive of the Labyrinth is reissued here to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester in 1922. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Winchester purchased a simple farmhouse in San José,...
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Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring RivalriesWhether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why. Why haven't Minneapolis and St. Paul merged into one city? In Becoming the...
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The Good Daughters*A Women's National Book Association's Great Group Reads 2025 Pick!* A moving and vivid story of three suffragettes in London and the battle for equality that tests the strength of their will and the bonds of their friendship. In 1912, three young women from...
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Hall of MirrorsA New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year A Washington Post and TODAY.com must-read book selection An Agatha Award, Lefty Award, and Macavity Award finalist! When a popular mystery novelist dies suspiciously, his writing partner must untangle the author's connection to a...
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Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford CarFrontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place in different parts of the West, moving chronologically from the fur trade era to the...
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Becoming Walla Walla: The Transformation of Cayuse Country, 1805-1879The first Euro-Americans to trek through the verdant Walla Walla Valley were uniformly impressed with its prospects for colonization. The Cayuse remained the valley's primary inhabitants until diverse populations with equally diverse objectives--manipulative traders, frictional missionaries, hostile colonists, an over-ambitious governor, a distracted Bureau...
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The Last DekrepitzerWINNER NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDThe fiddler busking in the Columbus Circle subway station in 1965 is the Dekrepitzer Rebbe, the sole survivor of the obscure Dekrepitzer Hasidic sect known before the war for its rebbes' fiddling. The Last Dekrepitzer follows the life and spiritual...
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Man's Search for MeaningWe needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life...
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The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp TowerHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof...
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