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Turner The Untold - Courtney Collins Where'd You Go, Bernadette - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Maria Semple Betty Smith Lucky Us - Amy Bloom One Kick - Chelsea Cain Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier Falling From Horses - Molly Gloss Longbourn - Jo Baker Bury Me Deep - Megan Abbott The Silver Star - Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn The Fever - Megan Abbott Jeannette Walls The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan Beloved - Toni Morrison The Perfect Ghost - Linda Barnes Remarkable Creatures - Prayers for Sale - Sandra Dallas Tracy Chevalier The Midwife’s Tale - Shanghai Girls - Lisa See Samuel Thomas The Boston Girl - The Siege Winter - Anita Diamant Ariana Franklin Leaving Berlin The Son by Joseph Kanon by Philipp Meyer An atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a Eli McCullough is kidnapped at age 13 by city caught between political idealism and the Comanches, and from then on his life becomes a harsh realities of Soviet occupation. study in conflict. By the time he turns 16, having mastered the art of scalping, he is set free. Forever Shadow on the Crown restless, he becomes a Texas Ranger, a cattle by Patricia Bracewell rancher, and, later, a colonel in the Civil War. The story of Emma, queen consort to the eleventh- century English king Aethelred II. A Norman in a Land of Love and Drowning loveless marriage of alliance, Emma is a spirited, The Abduction of Smith and Smith by Tiphanie Yanique clever 15-year-old who earns the love of her new by Rashad Harrison An epic family saga set against the magic and the subjects. A thrilling work of historical fiction in which two rhythms of the Virgin Islands. enemies become the unlikeliest of allies as they Shame and the Captives fight to save their own lives aboard a hell ship Lucky Us by Thomas Keneally headed into the dangerous unknown. by Amy Bloom Based on true events, novel explores a World War Two teenaged half-sisters journey through 1940s II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve The Alphabet House America in search of fame and fortune. to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. by Jussi Adler-Olsen The harrowing odyssey of two British airmen The Mapmaker’s Daughter All the Light We Cannot See shot down behind enemy lines during WWII and by Laurel Corona by Anthony Doerr subsequently held captive, under assumed In Spain in 1492,on the eve of the Jewish A novel about a blind French girl and a German German identities, in a hellish mental hospital for expulsion, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both SS officers. country violently divided by religion, she must try to survive the devastation of World War II. either convert to Christianity and stay safe, or Epitaph: a novel of the O.K. Corral remain a Jew and risk everything. The Boston Girl by Mary Doria Russell by Anita Diamant A richly detailed novel of the infamous gunfight at The Moor’s Account A gripping story of a young Jewish woman the O.K. Corral and the making of the mythology by Laila Lalami growing up in early-20th-century Boston. that surrounds it to this day A tale of adventure narrated by a Moorish slave reimagines one infamous expedition to Florida led The Bully of Order The Fair Fight by the Spanish conquistador, Panfilo de Narvaez. by Brian Hart by Anna Freeman The ill-fated journey results in hundreds of men This novel takes place in the rainy, filthy, raucous A historical novel set within the world of female obsessed with promises of gold and glory dying American Northwest during the lawless logging pugilists and their patrons in late eighteenth horribly by disease, hunger, and brutal clashes century England. days of the late 19th century. with indigenous tribes. The High Divide An Officer and a Spy by Lin Enger by Robert Harris A story of family redemption, set amid the This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair disappearance of the buffalo and the prelude to told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of and aftermath of Custer's Indian campaigns. conspiracy and espionage. Ulysses Pope disappears from the family farm on Minnesota's northern plains, leaving his wife, Gretta, and their sons, Eli and Danny, to fend for themselves. Mudbound Beloved The Name of the Rose by Hillary Jordan by Toni Morrison by Umberto Eco The story of a city-bred woman, Laura, when she The story of a former slave and the terrible An English monk travels to an abbey in Italy marries and moves to a farm in secret that haunts her. and sets out to solve a murder. the Mississippi Delta. The People’s Act of Love Shanghai Girls By a Slow River by James Meek by Lisa See by Philippe Claudel This novel is set in Siberia, at the end of the Two lively sisters leave China to find new lives in In a small French town during World War I, Russian Revolution and tells of the brutality and Los Angeles and are swept up in the events things are still peaceful until the inhumanity of war. of Japan’s rise to power. deaths of three locals. Snowbound Brave Enemies The Invisible Bridge by Richard S. Wheeler by Robert Morgan by Julie Orringer The story of explorer John Fremont’s attempt to Set during the Revolutionary War, this novel tells This is the story of three Jewish brothers in find a railway route to the West and how he the story of a young woman , who disguised as a Hungary in the 1930s and the events of the became trapped in the snowbound boy, runs away from home after killing her abusive Holocaust. mountains of Colorado. stepfather. She marries, but when her husband is captured by the British, she Wolf Hall The Forgotten Legion sets out to find him. by Hilary Mantel by Ben Kane Thomas Cromwell, one of Henry VIII’s closest This is the epic story of Rome during the time of Honolulu advisors, counsels the king on his annulment from Julius Caesar, filled with gore, by Alan Brennert Catherine of Aragon and schemes intrigue and battles. A young Korean girl travels to Hawaii in 1914 to behind the scenes. meet her intended husband, who turns out to be callous and brutal. She works to overcome the Etta hardships and finds a new love, but faces by Gerald Kolplan People of the Longhouse discrimination and hard times. This novel imagines the life of Etta Place, by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear Butch Cassidy’s lover and fellow outlaw. The Iroquois tribe during the 1500s battled with Brooklyn neighboring tribes, and in this novel, two young by Colm Toibin The Year We Were Famous Iroquois boys are kidnapped. When Ellis Lacey leaves Ireland after World War by Carole Estby Dagg II to find new opportunities in America, she falls in Based on a real-life journey, this novel is about two The Last Canyon love and new freedom. When a death in the family women who set out to walk from Washington state by John Vernon back home calls her back, she must decide to stay to New York City to win $10.000 and save their A novel that tells of John Wesley Powell’s or go back to America. farm from foreclosure. exploration of the Grand Canyon. March Violets Master and Commander by Philip Kerr by Patrick O’Brian The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Set in Berlin in 1936, this novel is about The first book in a fine series of naval adventures, Bernhard Gunther, a private investigator hired to set in the early 1800’s. The story of the Bible’s Dinah, from childhood to death. find a rich man’s missing daughter, with the menace of Hitler’s regime in the forefront. 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