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  • The Hideaway

    • ASIN: 0718084225
    • ISBN: 0718084225
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&... [Read More]

  • We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is t... [Read More]

  • Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America

    • ASIN: 0451466691
    • ISBN: 0451466691
    • Brand: Brown Amy Belding
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    “A compelling, emotionally gripping”* novel of historical fiction—perfect for readers of America’s First Daughter.Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her c... [Read More]

  • The Silent Woman: The USA TODAY BESTSELLER - a gripping historical fiction (Cat Carlisle, Book 1)

    • ASIN: B076GVWSW1
    • Manufacturer: HQ Digital

    Would you sell your secrets?Catherine Carlisle is trapped in a loveless marriage and the threat of World War Two is looming. She sees no way out… that is until a trusted friend asks her to switch her husband’s papers in a desperate bid to confuse the Germans.Soon Catherine finds herself caught up in a deadly mixture of espionage and murder. Som... [Read More]

  • The German Midwife

    • ASIN: 0008340528
    • ISBN: 0008340528
    • Manufacturer: Avon

    The USA Today Best Seller.“A powerful, haunting debut”―Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkAn enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz will love.Germany, 1944. A prison... [Read More]

  • Surviving The Forest: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor

    • ASIN: B07NDYGQ45

    Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate …She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought…WWII broke ... [Read More]

  • The Secret Orphan: The emotionally gripping and gritty historical bestseller

    • ASIN: B07CKQV7F8
    • Manufacturer: One More Chapter

    This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe USA Today bestsellerKeep her secret.Keep her safe.On the 14th November 1940, Hitler’s bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved…As the Nazis’ relentless bombs fall during the... [Read More]

  • Sold on a Monday: A Novel

    • UPC: 760789270895
    • ASIN: 1492663999
    • ISBN: 1492663999
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERA NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER  An unforgettable novel by Kristina McMorris, inspired by a stunning piece of history.  2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, ... [Read More]

  • The Price of Time

    • ASIN: 179773816X
    • ISBN: 179773816X
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Would your character change ... if you had all the money in the world? And all the time? Would you become a better person? Or worse? Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller. _______________________________________ There’s a secret in Silicon Valley. A discovery. An invention. One so startling... [Read More]

  • An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story

    • ASIN: 1250034140
    • ISBN: 1250034140
    • Brand: Square Fish
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the f... [Read More]

  • It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!

    • ASIN: 0578448831
    • ISBN: 0578448831
    • Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie

    "It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you. "Dan Brown, Author of Reunion Alabama, 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Vio... [Read More]

  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

    • ASIN: B000FBJCJ4
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Then She Was Gone: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1501154656
    • ISBN: 1501154656
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are ... [Read More]

  • The New Girl: A Novel (Gabriel Allon)

    • ASIN: 0062834835
    • ISBN: 0062834835
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    #1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerNow you see her.  Now you don’t.  THE NEW GIRL.  A thriller of deception, betrayal, and vengeance.She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the sort of stuff one saw at the Burberry boutique in Harrods. She carried a leather b... [Read More]

  • The Tuscan Child

    • ASIN: B074QL7WNM
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

    From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets… “Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with them.” —NPRIn 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his st... [Read More]

  • Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)

    • ASIN: 1452140030
    • ISBN: 1452140030
    • Brand: Chronicle
    • Size: N/A
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

    A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller! — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident—unexplained violent... [Read More]

  • The Woman I Was Before: A gripping emotional page turner with a twist

    • ASIN: 1786819473
    • ISBN: 1786819473
    • Manufacturer: Bookouture

    ‘Wow, what a corker of a novel… exactly the sort of novel that creeps into your life and you don’t want to put down… will keep you turning the pages, anxiously, excitedly and soon to reach a thrilling conclusion.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 starsA new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or a hiding place...Of all the emotions single ... [Read More]

  • The Warden's Son

    • ASIN: B07SRQVY59
    • Manufacturer: JBD Entertainment, LLC

    "I guess the most important thing to say up front was that the summer of 1987 was a pivotal time in my life. I was ten. I made a new best friend. And, I became a murderer. Yep. You heard right.The summer of 1987 was the ninth stop for yours truly on the great prison tour of my childhood. Every year a new town and a new prison to explore.I wasn’t ... [Read More]

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    • ASIN: 1101912375
    • ISBN: 1101912375
    • Brand: VINTAGE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South ... [Read More]

  • Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy

    • UPC: 884203109865
    • ASIN: 159921072X
    • ISBN: 159921072X
    • Brand: Lyons Press
    • Manufacturer: Lyons Press

    Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe. She was assigned to France, where she helped the Resistance movement, escaped prisoners of war, and American Allied paratroopers. By 1942 she ... [Read More]

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