After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile...
Historical fiction
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Author:Hosseini, KhaledSummary: - Author:Parker, T. JeffersonSummary:
A Thousand Steps is a gripping thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach,...
- Author:Starr, MelSummary:
When some valuable books are stolen from Master John Wyclif, the well-known scholar and Bible translator, he calls upon his friend and former pupil, Hugh de Singleton, to investigate.
- Author:Raybourn, DeannaSummary:
Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy's curse in a thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1888. As colorful and unfettered as...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Launches Exciting New Series Set in 1890s Montana Emily Carver wants a home where she can put down roots instead of following her gold-hungry father from one mining camp to another. She also longs for...
- Author:Vasey, PaulSummary:
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book About the Past, and selected as an Honor Book by the Society of School Librarians International. Teddy can't believe how fast his life has changed in just two years. When he was twelve, his father took off,...
- Author:Howe, KatherineSummary:
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time. In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes...
- Author:Rivers, FrancineSummary:
The holy city of Jerusalem has fallen. By the mercy of God, Hadassah, a young Christian girl survives famine, the deaths of her entire family, and unspeakable atrocities. And in Germania, a heroic young chieftain named Atretes battles...
- Author:Feather, JaneSummary:
Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fortune's whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables. Serena even dismissed her first love, the Honorable...
- Author:Fowler, Therese AnneSummary:
This program includes a bonus interview with the author. A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling...
- Author:Polders, Claire, Presley, DanielSummary:
Ever since the Germans became the unwelcome “guests” of Paris in the early days of World War II, Papa and Chantal have gone out in the evenings to fish in the Seine. Tonight Chantal is hoping for a salmon, but instead she spies...
- Author:Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
Clay Selby works as missionary to the Indians of Alaska in 1898, but after meeting Lizzie Dawson, a beautiful girl who has been ostacized from her tribe becuase of her white father, Clay worries that befriending her will ruin his...
- Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
A lonely woman is torn between the bonds of family and the potential of new love in this moving novel from the author of A Wrinkle in Time. Caught somewhere between love, hate, and indifference, Emily Bowen's marriage is hanging on...
- Author:Robbins, David, Compton, RalphSummary:
In West Texas, Lucius Stark is regarded as a no-good killer with nothing to say in his favor. But when Stark goes tender for a woman he's hired to kill, he's shot in the back and left with a burning desire for revenge.
- Author:Capps, BenjaminSummary:
When her parents are killed in a raid, 11-year-old Helen Morrison and her younger sister Katy are kidnapped by a band of Comanches. Given the name Tehanita, Helen vows to maintain her white identity and clings tightly to her only...
- Author:Johnston, WayneSummary:
A World Elsewhere has all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's most beloved and acclaimed novels: outsiders yearning for acceptance, dreams that threaten to overpower their makers, and unlikely romance. It is an astounding work of...
- Author:Dekker, TedSummary:
A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. The story of Jesus in a way you have...
- Author:Dekker, TedSummary:
Maviah is an outcast, but when she meets a man named Yeshua, he opens her eyes. Because of his teachings, she has gathered her own traveling kingdom of outcasts deep in the desert. But when her growing power threatens the rulers around...
- Author:MacInnes, HelenSummary:
Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. Galt asks if they would start...
- Author:Harris, JohnSummary:
In May 1936, George Dalziel flew far up the Nahanni River to check on Bill Eppler and Joe Mulholland, who were working one of his traplines. He found their cabin burned to the ground and no sign of them anywhere. What had happened to...
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