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Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris

October 21, 2019

Historical

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her — and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom ...

The World That We Knew – Alice Hoffman

October 9, 2019

Historical

“[A] hymn to the power of resistance, perseverance, and enduring love in dark times…gravely beautiful…Hoffman the storyteller continues to dazzle.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES “Oh, what a book this is! Hoffman’s exploration of the world of good and evil, and the constant contest between them, is unflinching; and the humanity she brings to us—it is a glorious experience. The book builds and builds, as she weaves together, seamlessly, the stories of people in the most desperate of circumstances—and then it delivers with a tremendous punch. It opens ...

The Cradle Breaker – Delphine Woods

October 4, 2019

Historical

Luella Blyth’s life has never been the same since the death of her father ten years ago. She can still remember his long walk to the gallows, her mother’s screams, her own heart shattering as she watched him hang for a murder he did not commit. All she wants now is revenge, and for that she needs Bonnie. On a sweltering summer afternoon in 1865, Bonnie Hearn is being watched. The girl staring into her window is somehow familiar … the girl she had hoped ...

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford

September 21, 2019

Historical

“Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages…A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices.”— Kirkus Reviews “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war–not the sweeping damage ...

The Earthquake Doll, Revised Edition – Candace Williams

September 18, 2019

Historical

A Japanese Historical Novel “We are commanded to endure to unendurable. We shall obey.” -The Earthquake Doll, Prologue

Home – Toni Morrison

August 7, 2019

Historical

Toni Morrison, 1931 – 2019. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home–and himself in it–may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he’s hated all ...

The Golden Hour – Beatriz Williams

July 25, 2019

Historical

Beatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives, is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young “society reporter” is sent to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke ...

Summer of ’69 – Elin Hilderbrand

July 1, 2019

Historical

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand’s first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It’s 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother’s historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and ...

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