Chronological Period/1900-1949
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The Last Town on Earth
$17.00 Read moreA town under quarantine during the 1918 flu epidemic must reckon with forces beyond their control in a powerful, sweeping novel of morality in a time of upheaval
“An American variation on Albert Camus- Author: Mullen, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 812975928
- Language: English
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The Language of Threads
$22.00 Add to cartReaders of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel t
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267568
- Language: English
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Prairie Nocturne
$19.99 Add to cartPrairie Nocturne is the epic saga of two former lovers sired in the pages of Ivan Doig’s acclaimed Montana Trilogy. Susan Duff — the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice from Dancing at … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743201361
- Language: English
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The Lieutenants
$9.99 Add to cartThey were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they honorably answered the call.
War-it was their- Series: Brotherhood of War #1
- Author: Griffin, W. E. B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0515090212
- Language: English
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For the Love of Mike
$19.99 Add to cartA woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor, Paddy Reilly, she’s following philandering husbands, tracking down a… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Rhys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312313012
- Language: English
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Fortune’s Rocks
$24.99 Add to cartThis magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate,… [more below]
- Author: Shreve, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0316678104
- Language: English
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The Path to the Spiders’ Nests: Revised Edition
$17.00 Add to cartItalo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler’s apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He l
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956585
- Language: English
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Overseas
$24.00 Add to cartExperience a love that transcends time in this sensation debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and Husbands & Lovers.
Amiens, France, 1916 Captain Julian Ashford, a… [more below]- Author: Williams, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0425261263
- Language: English
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The Tale of Hill Top Farm
$9.99 Add to cartThe author of Peter Rabbit and other tales, Beatrix Potter is still, after a century, beloved by children and adults worldwide. In this first Cottage Tale, Albert introduces Beatrix, an animal lover a… [more below]
- Series: Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries #1
- Author: Albert, Susan Wittig
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0425201015
- Language: English
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Interpretation of Murder
$30.99 Add to cartInternational Bestseller
In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit
#1 U.K. Bestseller
The Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Bestseller- Author: Rubenfeld, Jed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427050
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$13.00 Add to cart“It was I who removed de P- this morning.” With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441941
- Language: English
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Across the River and Into the Trees
$28.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber!
A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late–the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American co- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0684844648
- Language: English
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less comes Andrew Sean Greer’s extraordinarily haunting love story The Confessions of Max Tivoli, told in the voice of a man who appears to ag
- Author: Greer, Andrew Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312423810
- Language: English
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Mrs. Miniver
$14.95 Add to cartAs a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver’s adventures have charmed millions. This edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s orginal publication in the… [more below]
- Author: Struther, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0156631407
- Language: English
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The Years (Annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
$28.95 Add to cartThe Years is a sweeping tale of three generations of the Pargiter family, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, in the thick of life’s cycles of birth, death, and the search for a pattern in … [more below]
- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0156034859
- Language: English
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A German Requiem: A Bernie Gunther Novel
$24.00 Add to cartPost-World War 2, Bernie Gunther investigates the murder of an American Nazi-hunter amongst the ruins of the Third Reich in this riveting thriller in Philip Kerr’s bestselling historical mystery serie… [more below]
- Series: Bernie Gunther Novel #3
- Author: Kerr, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0142004022
- Language: English
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Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition
$15.99 Add to cart“Alexander has done a fine job. . . allowing the cat’s (and her own) sense of humor to have full run.” –New York Times Book Review
When Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance became trapped in the Ant
- Author: Alexander, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0060932619
- Language: English
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The Road from Gap Creek
$21.99 Add to cartOne of America’s most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weavin
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1616203781
- Language: English
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O Jerusalem: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
$20.00 Add to cartAt the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England’s green and pleasant land, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes’ enigmatic brother, Mycr… [more below]
- Series: Mary Russell Novels (Paperback) #1
- Author: King, Laurie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0553383248
- Language: English
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King Rat
$44.99 Add to cartThe epic novel of war, savagery, and survival in a Japanese POW camp by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
Japanese POW camp Changi, S
- Series: Asian Saga #4
- Author: Clavell, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798212378338
- Language: English
