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Book Club Fiction (Historical Fiction and Women’s Fiction) Book Club Fiction | 3 The Passion Against the Inquisition The Dragon Queen According to Carmen Marcos Aguinis William Andrews Marcos Aguinis Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Imprint: AmazonCrossing Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: AmazonCrossing Publication Date: 4/3/2018 Publishing Publication Date: 10/9/2018 Page Count: 548 Publication Date: 3/6/2018 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Spanish Languages Spanish The story of an unlikely love between two A meticulously researched novel by one of From the author of Daughters of the Dragon doctors—one Argentine, one Cuban—narrated Argentina’s most celebrated novelists, which comes another dual narrative set in Korea. with impressive realism. was praised as “[a] stirring song of freedom” by Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. The Dragon Queen follows a young Korean They meet in Cuba in the midst of Castro’s American attorney in the present day and the revolution. Shortly before the advent of Against the Inquisition is based on the real life tragic tale of her distant ancestor, Queen Min, democracy in Argentina, he returns; she, of Francisco da Silva, a respected, erudite in the nineteenth century. The novel weaves a instead, remains in Cuba, free, but somehow physician in seventeenth-century South compelling contemporary tale set around a turned hostage. America who refused to renounce his Jewish growing conflict between North and South faith, and prevailed in countless debates Korea with a historical account of Korea’s last In a love story that is in no way simple, against the Inquisitors who jailed him over queen, a woman who bucked tradition and renowned Argentine author Marcos Aguinis a span of twelve years. Eventually, the took her own initiative to “speak for the spirit of shines a light on the challenges oppression Inquisitors realized they could never break da Korea.” and political upheaval present in otherwise Silva’s spirit. He was burned at the stake, ordinary lives. And through this emotional unrepentant, in the infamous Acto de fe (Act of journey, the reader leaves remembering the Faith) in Lima, Peru, in 1639. Against the universal maxim: “Love conquers all.” Inquisition was originally published in Spanish and is being translated into English by The Passion According to Carmen was Carolina De Robertis. originally published in Spanish, and will be translated into English. One Night in November Seasons of the Moon (Le Amélie Antoine sourire du clair de lune) Contemporary Fiction Julien Aranda Imprint: AmazonCrossing Historical Fiction Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Page Count: 190 French Language Rights Acquired: All Languages, Publication Date: 12/1/2015 excluding French Page Count: 310 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Korean Rights Sold: English, Italian, and Spanish November 13, 2015. It was a Paris night that began like so many At the close of World War II, a chance encounter sets the course for others—until a series of terrorist attacks brought darkness to the City of one man’s destiny… Light. Stirred by the tragic events at the Bataclan music club, One Night in November looks into the hearts and minds of all those whose paths During the Nazi occupation, fifteen-year-old Paul Vertune, the sensitive crossed that fateful fall evening… son of wheat farmers, prefers gazing at the ocean and contemplating life’s mysteries over toiling in the fields of the Brittany coast. One fateful A rebellious teenage girl in the throes of a crush. A middle-aged man day, Paul’s life is spared by a compassionate German soldier with eyes eager to chase away his buddy’s blues. A young gay student rejected as blue as the sea. When Paul’s village is liberated, an angry mob turns by his father, but discovering himself. Two new parents in need of a against their occupiers. The German soldier, near death, asks Paul to date night. They went out seeking love, laughter, and music—and then promise him one thing: find his daughter and tell her that her father the world fell down around them. loved her. Using intersecting narratives, award-winning author Amélie Antoine As Paul becomes a man, he fulfills his childhood dream of sailing the choreographs the shocking attack and its aftermath, from grief and world, even as twists of fate steer his life in unexpected directions. But devastation to hope and healing. One Night in November was originally through it all, Paul never forgets his promise. published in French, and has been translated into English by Maren Baudet-Lackner. Beautifully moving and deeply profound, Seasons of the Moon evokes a sense of wonder at the mystery of human connection and the powerful ripple effects of kindness. Book Club Fiction | 4 Whisper of the Moon Moth The Woman on the Orient Lindsay Jayne Ashford Express Historical Fiction Lindsay Jayne Ashford Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Historical Fiction Publication Date: 10/1/2017 Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Page Count: 351 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 332 Rights Sold: German Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Large Print (English) From the author of The Color of Secrets and The Woman on the Orient Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Express comes a poignant novel inspired by the Hollywood legend— Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous and the secrets of—actress Merle Oberon, famous for playing Cathy to detective, Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she Laurence Olivier’s Heathcliff in the film Wuthering Heights. encounters on this fateful journey. For nineteen-year-old Estelle Thompson, going to the cinema is more Agatha isn’t the only passenger on board with secrets. Her cabinmate than a way to pass the time…it’s a way out. In 1931 in Calcutta, Anglo- Katharine Keeling’s first marriage ended in tragedy, propelling her Indian girls like Estelle are considered half-breeds, shunned by both toward a second relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson—newly English and Indian society. Her only escape is through the silver married but carrying another man’s child—is desperate to conceal the screen, where she can forget the world around her. pregnancy and teeters on the brink of utter despair. Each woman hides her past from the others, ferociously guarding her secrets. But as the When Estelle catches the eye of a dashing American heir with train bound for the Middle East speeds down the track, the parallel connections to a major motion-picture studio, he also captures her courses of their lives shift to intersect—with lasting repercussions. heart. Soon, Estelle has a one-way ticket to London and a recommendation for a screen test. Filled with evocative imagery, suspense, and emotional complexity, The Woman on the Orient Express explores the bonds of sisterhood To get to the top, she must keep her Indian heritage concealed—and forged by shared pain and the power of secrets. so begins her new identity as movie goddess Merle Oberon. But just as her dreams are poised to come true, she discovers that her own family is keeping a much more shocking secret from her—one that changes everything she’s believed about her past. The Storyteller’s Secret Trail of Broken Wings Sejal Badani Sejal Badani Family Drama Literary Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 3/27/2018 Publication Date: 5/1/2015 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 377 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Hungarian, Italian, and Polish From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer story of the unrelenting force of maternal love, the power of healing, Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since and the invincible desire to dream. she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life; and her Nothing prepares New York journalist Jaya for the heartbreak of her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. these women come together, their various methods of coping with a To assuage her deep anguish, she decides to attempt a rediscovery of terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. sorts by making her first pilgrimage to India, her family’s homeland. Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father—the victim of Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence—remains becomes a fast and hungry student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her unconscious.