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  • THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE
    THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE
    JUSTINIAN HUANG
    Stonewall Book Award Winner, 2025 "A sweeping triumph in queer romance." -Booklist "What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?" In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by...
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  • STRANGERS IN TIME
    STRANGERS IN TIME
    DAVID BALDACCI
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci's newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved book shop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another. Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ...
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  • THE LITTLE LIAR
    THE LITTLE LIAR
    MITCH ALBOM
    An Instant New York Times Bestseller Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust. Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save ...
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  • LOVERS OF FRANZ K.
    LOVERS OF FRANZ K.
    BURHAN SÖNMEZ / HÊZIL, SAMI
    An inventive literary obituary for Kafka, this thriller of love and revenge brings the Cold War to life, from Paris and Istanbul to West Berlin and Tel Aviv.Amid the student protests in 1960s Europe, Kafka's best friend, Max Brod, becomes a target of their ire: Against the dying writer's wishes, he had published texts that never should have been part of his legacy. After Brod i...
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  • ROOMS FOR VANISHING
    ROOMS FOR VANISHING
    STUART NADLER
    A prismatic mind-bending epic about the splintering of a family into different worldsEveryone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate rooms, within their separate lives, but I would not be able to cross over to meet them. In Rooms for Vanishing, the violence of war has fractured th...
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  • HARLEM RHAPSODY
    HARLEM RHAPSODY
    VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY
    In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to realise her lifelong dream. Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all. W. E. B. Du Bois, the founde...
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  • THE LIFE OF HEROD THE GREAT
    THE LIFE OF HEROD THE GREAT
    HURSTON, ZORA NEALE / DEBORAH G. PLANT
    A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great--not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of valor and vision. In the 1950s, as a continuation of Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel about one of the most infamous figure...
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  • PEGGY
    PEGGY
    REBECCA GODFREY
    dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone"Godfrey brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde adventurer Peggy Guggenheim as a feminist icon for our times."—Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation"Mag...
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  • AUGUST BLUE
    AUGUST BLUE
    DEBORAH LEVY
    Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher's WeeklyA new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, midperforma...
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  • FALL OF GIANTS
    FALL OF GIANTS
    FOLLETT KEN
    The first in Ken Follett's ground-breaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.A WORLD IN CHAOS1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating ...
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  • EDGE OF ETERNITY
    EDGE OF ETERNITY
    FOLLETT KEN
    Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is an irresistible and spellbinding epic about the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War.A FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE1961, and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young law...
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  • FIREBRAND
    FIREBRAND
    FREMANTLE, ELIZABETH
    Now a major motion picture, Firebrand shows the tumultuous darker side to the marriages of the notorious King of England, Henry VIII, and the wife who survived.Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotisti...
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  • DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG
    DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG
    EVE J. CHUNG
    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family storyDaughters are the Ang family's curse.In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of a...
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  • HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS
    HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS
    NORTH, CLAIRE
    Men go to war, gods scheme, and the choices of a queen will change the course of the world, in this powerful sequel to Ithaca from multi-award-winning author Claire North. On the isle of Ithaca, Queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband, Odysseus, sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning t...
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  • MEDEA
    MEDEA
    EILISH QUIN
    Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Elektra, and Stone Blind.Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, th...
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  • MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE
    MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE
    ILYON WOO
    One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave.In 18...
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  • A SPARTAN'S SORROW
    A SPARTAN'S SORROW
    HANNAH LYNN
    She is a mother, a queen, a villain. However we remember her, her wrath will never be forgotten. Clytemnestra is no stranger to pain. As a wife and queen, she bears it with stoicism. But when her husband does the unthinkable, sacrificing one of their daughters to appease the ruthless gods and bring himself glory in battle, Clytemnestra is forever changed. No longer will she st...
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  • THE TOWER
    THE TOWER
    FLORA CARR
    A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. "Such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impre...
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  • SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 1
    SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 1
    JAMES CLAVELL
    By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part One contains the first half of the complete novel...
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  • SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 2
    SHOGUN - ASIAN SAGA PART 2
    JAMES CLAVELL
    By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete nove...
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  • THE WILDEST SUN
    THE WILDEST SUN
    ASHA LEMMIE
    Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman's search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father. When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to e...
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  • ABSOLUTION
    ABSOLUTION
    MCDERMOTT, ALICE
    A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.American women--American wives--have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a ...
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  • LEARNED BY HEART
    LEARNED BY HEART
    EMMA DONOGHUE
    Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, Learned by Heart is a heartbreakingly gorgeous novel from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine...
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  • MRS. PORTER CALLING
    MRS. PORTER CALLING
    PEARCE, A.J.
    From the author of the bestselling "jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People) Dear Mrs. Bird, a charming and irresistible novel featuring aspiring journalist Emmy Lake as she navigates life, love, and friendship in London during World War II—perfect for fans of The Paris Library and Lessons in Chemistry.London, April 1943. Twenty-five-year-old Emmy Lake is doing her part for the w...
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  • A DAY OF FIRE
    A DAY OF FIRE
    KATE QUINN / DRAY, STEPHANIE / BEN KANE / ELIZA KNIGHT / SOPHIE PERINOT / VICKY ALVEAR
    From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts.Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town wou...
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  • CROOK MANIFESTO
    CROOK MANIFESTO
    COLSON WHITEHEAD
    Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray...
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  • THE GLASS CHÂTEAU
    THE GLASS CHÂTEAU
    STEPHEN P. KIERNAN
    From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker's Secret, a novel of hope, healing, and the redemptive power of art, set against the turmoil of post-World War II France and inspired by the life of Marc Chagall.One month after the end of World War II, amid the jubilation in the streets of France, there are throngs of people stunned by the recovery work ahea...
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  • THE MIDNIGHT NEWS
    THE MIDNIGHT NEWS
    JO BAKER
    From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman's unraveling during the Blitz—a story of World War II intrigue, love, and danger It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of ho...
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  • THE GOOD LEFT UNDONE
    THE GOOD LEFT UNDONE
    ADRIANA TRIGIANI
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[An] immersive saga. . . . A celebration of family and a paean to the power of storytelling."--People, "Book of the Week""Trigiani conveys the beauty of Italy, the hardships of war, the taste of family recipes, and the enduring love of family."--Library Journal (starred)"The beauty of any book by Adriana Trigiani is her ability to interweave...
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  • CORONATION YEAR
    CORONATION YEAR
    JENNIFER ROBSON
    The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal historical novel-- as the lives of three very different residents of London's historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a moo...
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