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  • The Great Passion

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    From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion.

    In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thi

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    • Author: Runcie, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1635570670
    • Language: English
  • Trinity

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    From the internationally acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, and other classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure.

    Leon Uris captu

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    • Author: Uris, Leon
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: October 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 9798200951741
    • Language: English
  • Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette

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    Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future Ki

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Naslund, Sena Jeter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: May 22 2007
    • ISBN10: 0060825405
    • Language: English
  • The Persian Boy

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    “It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”-The Atlantic Monthly

    The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s … [more below]

    • Series: Alexander Trilogy #2
    • Author: Renault, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: February 12 1988
    • ISBN10: 0394751019
    • Language: English
  • Queens’ Play: Book Two in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles

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    Combining all the political intrigue of Game of Thrones with the sweeping romanticism of Outlander, Dorothy Dunnett’s legendary Lymond Chronicles have enthralled readers for decades and amassed legion… [more below]

    • Series: Lymond Chronicles
    • Author: Dunnett, Dorothy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: May 14 2019
    • ISBN10: 0525565256
    • Language: English
  • Kafka’s Son

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    A posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives.

    Born in 1963, Szil疵d Borb駘y emerged as one of the most important poets of post-communist Europe, exploring the th

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    • Series: Hungarian List
    • Author: Borbély, Szilárd
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: December 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1803092688
    • Language: English
  • The Christie Affair

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    Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder–and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of

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    • Author: de Gramont, Nina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 493
    • Publish Date: March 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798885786683
    • Language: English
  • A Lo Lejos

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    A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven bac… [more below]

    • Author: Diaz, Hernan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 8417553525
    • Language: Spanish
  • Godpretty in the Tobacco Field

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    “Beauty and sweetness weave a diaphanous fabric against the stark backdrop of poverty and cruelty.”–Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants

    Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble

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    • Author: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 26 2016
    • ISBN10: 1617737356
    • Language: English
  • The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel

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    The war taught her to fight. The children taught her to hope…

    From the USA Today bestselling author, The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of love, hope and frie

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    • Author: Steele, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: June 14 2022
    • ISBN10: 1472270134
    • Language: English
  • Folly Park

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    Fans of Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan, The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate, and Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson will enjoy Folly Park.

    Are we ever able to escape the past? Should we be

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    • Author: Hackford, Heidi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 164742271X
    • Language: English
  • The Forty Elephants

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    Peaky Blinders meets Ocean’s 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targ

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    • Author: Bledsoe, Erin
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 299
    • Publish Date: August 23 2022
    • ISBN10: 1665019891
    • Language: English
  • The One from the Other: A Bernie Gunther Novel

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    In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunther–a former policeman and reluctant SS offier–attempts to start over in the aftermath of World War 2 and quickly[more below]

    • Series: Bernie Gunther Novels #4
    • Author: Kerr, Philip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 03 2009
    • ISBN10: 0143112295
    • Language: English
  • The Wine-Dark Sea

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    At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Steph

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    • Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #16
    • Author: O’Brian, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 17 1994
    • ISBN10: 0393312445
    • Language: English
  • The March

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    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
    WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Geor

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    • Author: Doctorow, E. L.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: September 12 2006
    • ISBN10: 0812976150
    • Language: English
  • The Birthkeeper of Bethlehem: A Midwife’s Tale

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    We seem to have become invisible. But we were there. I was his midwife. This is my story.

    There was a time when birth was considered sacred, a rite of passage, a gift from God, tended to by women wit

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    • Author: Supple, Bridget
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 154
    • Publish Date: December 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1910559822
    • Language: English
  • A Darker Reality: An Elena Standish Novel

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    A personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry.

    “An absorbin

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    • Series: Elena Standish
    • Author: Perry, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593159381
    • Language: English
  • House of Thieves

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    “The world of old New York comes alive in this beguiling tale of mystery and intrigue… Charles Belfoure definitely has the touch.”–Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Patriot Thre

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    • Author: Belfoure, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: August 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 1492633089
    • Language: English
  • Everything Good Will Come

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    Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her Afr… [more below]

    • Author: Atta, Sefi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: December 28 2012
    • ISBN10: 1566565707
    • Language: English
  • The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston

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    An empowering story of families and friendships forged through struggle, loss, and redemption

    “The sun leaned for down bringing shade to the waterfront,” begins Michele Moore’s entrancing debut novel,

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    • Series: Story River Books
    • Author: Moore, Michele
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 23 2016
    • ISBN10: 1611178401
    • Language: English
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