Historical - 20th Century - World War I
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Agent Gatz: A Great Gatsby Prequel
$14.99 Add to cartA young Jay Gatsby finds himself working as a foreign spy in this riveting debut novel by R.M. Spencer. Set eight years before The Great Gatsby at the beginning of World War I, this slyly funny, ingen
- Author: Spencer, R. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985307610
- Language: English
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A Soldier of the Great War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed, award-winning novelist Mark Helprin, a lush and literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.
Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idylli… [more below]
- Author: Helprin, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0156031132
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises
$9.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s first novel is considered by some scholars to be his greatest work, following American and British expats in the 1920s as they travel from Paris to Pamplona to watch the running of … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 12 2022
- ISBN10: 048684854X
- Language: English
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A Parchment of Leaves
$17.95 Add to cartIn 1900s Kentucky, Saul Sullivan leaves his bride behind to seek work, and his brother steps in, with violent consequences.
- Author: House, Silas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1949467252
- Language: English
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Don’t Push Me
$19.00 Add to cartInspired by true events, “Don’t Push Me” is an intergenerational saga of gay romance and the shame that cripples it. On a ski vacation in the Alps, Elliott discovers that the owners of the inn where h
- Author: Hartwig, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218327910
- Language: English
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The First Man in Rome
$19.99 Add to cartWith extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in
- Series: Masters of Rome #1
- Author: McCullough, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0061582417
- Language: English
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Band of Sisters
$16.99 Add to cart“A crackling portrayal of everyday American heroines…A triumph.”
— Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth AvenueA group of young women from Smith College risk their l
- Author: Willig, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0062986163
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wrens
$17.99 Read moreThe Call of the Wrens introduces the little-known story of the daring women who rode through war-torn Europe carrying secrets on their shoulders.
An orphan who spent her youth without a true home, Mari
- Author: Walsh, Jenni L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1400233887
- Language: English
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The Poppy Sisters
$18.99 Read more‘A rich and gripping war story that hooked me from the first page…I was effortlessly swept into the drama’ USA Today bestseller Andie Newton
Divided by war. Reunited by courage.
Phoebe is a volunteer
- Author: Carr, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0008534616
- Language: English
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The Hidden Letters
$16.99 Add to cartOn the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home, where one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever…
‘An emotional story of love and
- Author: Cook, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0008527598
- Language: English
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The War Librarian
$17.00 Read moreThe Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this captivating historical novel about the sacrifice and courage necessary to live a life of honor, inspired by the first female volunteer librarians durin
- Author: Armstrong, Addison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 059332806X
- Language: English
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Under the Cover of Mercy
$26.99 Read moreCan one nurse on a mission of mercy and rebellion turn the tide of WWI?
November 1914 The Great War has come to Brussels, the Germans have occupied the city, and Edith Cavell, Head Nurse at Berkendael- Author: Connolly, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639931058
- Language: English
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Zorba the Greek
$19.99 Add to cartA stunning new translation of the classic book–and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film–brings the clarity and beauty of Kazantzakis’s language and story alive.
First published in 1946, Zorba th- Author: Kazantzakis, Nikos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 23, 2014
- ISBN10: 1476782814
- Language: English
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The Waiting World
$28.95 Add to cartFALL 1929
The mansion of larger-than-life business magnate Titus McAvoy hums with the energy of his servants Nessa and Aoife, two Irish maids bonded through their journey to America, and a dream of esc… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Andria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988120322
- Language: English
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Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel of the Heroic Women Who Served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps During World War I
$19.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I–the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gende
- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063080702
- Language: English
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The Stolen Child
$27.99 Add to cartFor decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he’d befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands–and disapp
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 7, 2024
- ISBN10: 0393609804
- Language: English
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The Last Bird of Paradise
$23.95 Add to cart“Aislinn Givens leaves a settled life in Manhattan for an unsettled life in Singapore. That painting radiates mystery and longing. So does Clifford Garstang’s vivid and simmering novel, The Last Bird
- Author: Garstang, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: February 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1685133762
- Language: English
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The Alice Network: A Reese’s Book Club Pick
$9.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER
#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER
One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year!
One of Bookbub’s Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!
Reese Witherspoon
- Author: Quinn, Kate
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: 22-Feb-22
- ISBN10: 0063215241
- Language: English
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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “briskly entertaining” (New York Times Book Review), “transporting and wholly original” (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved
- Author: Miller, Nathaniel Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: 4-Oct-22
- ISBN10: 0316592587
- Language: English
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Library for the War-Wounded
$26.99 Read moreThe internationally bestselling novel-a daughter’s portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory.
We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to p- Author: Helfer, Monika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 163973239X
- Language: English
