A captivating World War II historical love story set against the raw beauty of Australia. Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a life change when she reads the want ad in the newspaper for a companion needed to escort a young orphaned child to Australia. Rose can't leave this little boy who she's grown to love until he is happy and settled, and she knows the key to this is Walter's wounded fighter pilot uncle But how will she ever part with Walter? And what if he isn't the only reason she wants to stay?
A DUKE, THE SPY, AN ARTIST, AND A LIE
Vanessa Riley
An English spy must follow his neglected wife through the streets of London as she investigates her sister's death with the aid of the Widow's Grace Can they find common ground and learn to work together?
THE NEXT SHIP HOME
Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis is not the refuge it first appears Francesca and Alma will have to rely on each other to escape its corruption and claim the American dream they were promised.
Historical Fiction
THE CODEBREAKER'S SECRET
A brilliant female codebreaker. An "unbreakable" Japanese naval code A pilot on a topsecret mission that could change the course of WWII
A dual-timeline historical novel of codebreaking, secrets, murder, and romance, set in Hawaii in 1943 and 1965, follows two women--a cryptanalyist working to defeat the Japanese Army, and a rookie journalist investigating the disappearance of a high-profile guest during the grand opening of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
THE SCENT OF BURNT FLOWERS
Blitz Bazawule
December 15, 1965, Alabama, the fateful night that triggers an avalanche of events that turn newly engaged couple Melvin and Bernadette into fugitives A pitstop in the wrong part of town ends with blood on their hands Suspecting that cops are already following them, Melvin realizes the only way they'll survive is if they flee the country. Bernadette, who's hiding a secret from her fiancé, reluctantly agrees.
THE GOLDEN SUN
UNDER
Jenny Ashcroft
Heather Webb
Sara Ackerman
September 2022
M: SON OF THE CENTURY
An epic historical novel that chronicles the birth and rise of fascism in Italy, witnessed through the eyes of its founder, the terrifyingly charismatic figure who would become one of the most notorious dictators of the twentieth century, Benito Mussolini
THE MAD GIRLS OF NEW YORK
Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages The New York World challenges her to an assignment she'd be mad to accept and mad to refuse: go undercover as a patient at Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum for Women. Inside, she discovers horrors beyond comprehension
THE TSARINA'S DAUGHTER
The dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by love, danger, passion and scandal. When a woodland creature gives her a Delphic prophecy, her life is turned upside down.
BOOTH
From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside
Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.
THE GREAT PASSION
In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteenyear-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws him from the choir to be a soloist, Stefan's life is permanently changed
THE PARIS BOOKSELLER
When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself
Many of the most prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home
Karen Joy Fowler
Antonio Scurati
Ellen Alpsten
Maya Rodale
Kerri Maher
James Runcie
THE LOST SUMMERS OF
NEWPORT
Historical fiction
novel set in Newport, Rhode Island. Family secrets span multiple decades, from the bestselling author trio Williams, Willig, and White.
THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess
Medici.
SISTER STARDUST
Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s. From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. When Claire arrives in London from her small town, she never expects to cross paths with a woman as magnetic as Talitha. But beneath Talitha's glamourous facade lurks a darkness few can understand
WHEN YOU CALL MY NAME
In 1990 New York City, eighteen-year-olds
Adam and Ben learn to navigate life, love, and loss as gay teens during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
A sweeping narrative of Joan of Arc's life, from a childhood steeped in both joy and violence, to her meteoric rise to fame at the head of the French army, where she must navigate both the dangers of the battlefield and the equally treacherous politics of the royal court.
SMALL WORLD
A novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-ofview across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises
Tucker Shaw
JOAN
Katherine J. Chen
Beatriz Williams
Jane Green
Jonathan Evison
Lucrezia de'
Maggie O'Farrell
THE PROPHET'S WIFE: A NOVEL OF AMERICAN FAITH
Libbie Grant VALIANT LADIES
A sweeping, lyrical tale of historical fiction that tells the unbelievable story of the early days of the Mormon church through the eyes of the woman who saw it all —Emma, the first wife of the prophet Joseph Smith.
JANE AND THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER
May 1816: Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra go to the Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire, expecting a relaxing sojourn, but other boarders at the guest house where the Misses Austen are staying have come to Cheltenham with stresses of their own-some of them deadly.
THE LAST PALADIN
A gripping tale of antisubmarine warfare in the World War II Pacific Theater, by a master of military adventure fiction. The Last Paladin by P.T. Deutermann is based on the true story of the USS Hayward (DE-24), a World War II Atlantic Fleet destroyer escort which has spent the past two years in the unforgiving battle for survival against the German U-boats of the North Atlantic
FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY
Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her
In Potosí, a silver mining city in the new Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, two teen vigilantes set out to expose corruption and deliver justice after Kiki's brother is murdered and the prostitute he loved disappears.
THE LIONESS
"A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times
bestselling author of The Flight Attendant.
Melissa Grey
P.T. Deutermann
Stephanie Barron
Jenny Zhang
Chris Bohjalian
