1.
Series:
Alchemy and Rose
Paperback
Sarah Maine
9781529385021
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s'Its portrayal of life in a gold-rush town is vivid, and Rose's story is absorbing' The Times'Worth reading for its occasional streaks of brilliance and insight' Telegraph India'A epic read . . . a beautifully written, evocative novel that I anticipate you reading and re-reading for years to come' Woman's Way'A gripping page-turner' Woman 1866. Will Stewart is one of many who have left their old lives behind ...
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2.
Series:
Between Tides
Paperback
Angel Khoury
9781950539635
$26.50
FICTION
Aug 05, 2022
A captivating historical novel set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 1890s, Cape Cod: Between tides, a man deserts his wife and his post as keeper of the Chatham Beach Lifesaving Station to start a new family far to the south, at Cape Hatteras. 1940s: His daughter, en route to serve in World War II with the Red Cross, travels to Cape Cod where she meets his first wife, Blythe, reanimating a life she had long buried: memories of her courtship, her ...
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3.
Series:
Bruno and Frida
Paperback
Tony Bradman
9781800900509
$15.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Sep 15, 2022
Friendship forms in the midst of war between a young German boy and a Russian bomber-dog, in this poignant and gripping historical adventure. Friendship forms in the midst of war between a young German boy and a Russian bomber-dog, in this poignant and gripping historical adventure from acclaimed author Tony Bradman.
4.
Series:
Crow Stone
Paperback
Gabriele Goldstone
9781553806653
$18.95
FICTION
Nov 15, 2022
East Prussia, Germany in 1944 during the last winter of the Second World War; the story follows Katya, a worker at an ammunition factory who flees with her two sisters and thousands of other East Prussian civilians as the Third Reich begins to collapse under the weight of the Red Army; Katya is trying to reach ships on the Baltic coast but becomes separated from her sisters and forced to make a long, shameful trek to the Soviet Union, the country that destroyed her family home; Katya is forced into a labour camp, where her Russian language skil...
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5.
Series:
Crusader
Paperback
Ben Kane
9781409197812
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
KING. POLITICIAN. WARRIOR. CONQUEROR.1189. Richard the Lionheart's long-awaited goal comes true as he is crowned King of England. Setting his own kingdom in order, he prepares to embark on a gruelling crusade to reclaim Jerusalem.With him on every step of the journey is Ferdia, his loyal Irish follower. Together they travel from southern France to Italy, to the kingdom of Sicily and beyond.Finally poised to sail to the Holy Land, Richard finds a bitter two-year-long siege awaiting him. And with it, the iconic Saracen leader responsible for the ...
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7.
Series:
Deep Water
Murder, Scandal, and Intrigue in a New England Town
Paperback
Kenneth M. Sheldon
9781684750276
$25.95
TRUE CRIME
Jun 15, 2022
In the waning days of World War I, William K. Dean was brutally murdered, his body hog-tied and dumped in a rainwater cistern on his farm in the quiet town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Suspicion quickly fell on Dean's wife, an invalid in the early stages of dementia. Her friends, outraged at the accusations, pointed instead to a former tenant of Dean’s, whom many suspected of being a German spy. Others believed that Dean's best friend, a politically powerful banker and judge, was involved. Deep Water is based on extensive research into the Dean ...
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9.
Series:
Her Last Betrayal
Paperback
Pam Lecky
9780008464875
$18.99
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
“A gripping and thrilling tale….INCREDIBLE!.” Goodreads reviewer, ?????An Irish spy. A deadly betrayal. A dangerous mission to save her country…London, 1941After losing her family to a Nazi bomb attack back home in Ireland, Sarah Gillespie joins the British Secret Services to bring them justice.Partnered with American undercover agent Lieutenant Tony Anderson, Sarah embarks on a dangerous mission that takes her from war-torn London into the black mountains of Wales. But when one of her team is revealed to be a German mole, and enemies begin to ...
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10.
Series:
Horse
A Novel
Hardcover
Geraldine Brooks
9780399562969
$37.00
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American historyKentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a p...
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11.
Series:
In the Path of Abraham
How Donald Trump Made Peace in the Middle East–and How to Stop Joe Biden from Unmaking It
Hardcover
Jason D. Greenblatt
9781637583098
$37.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jul 19, 2022
An insider’s perspective on how the Abraham Accords were concluded and why they offer a way forward to a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East—if only they are not abandoned by the Biden Administration.This book charts the remarkable journey of Jason D. Greenblatt, who spent nearly two decades in various senior positions at the Trump Organization—including as an Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer—and his subsequent appointment by President Trump as an Assistant to the President and Special Representative for Internati...
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12.
Series:
Innocence
two novellas
Paperback
Frank White
9781529327878
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
Two wonderfully evocative short novels from the author of There Was A Time - surely the last novel about the Second World War to have been written by someone who served in it.Innocence is paired here with a complementary story, A Morse Code Set, first published in 1964 and available recently only as an eBook.In A Morse Code Set, set in Manchester in 1939, a boy finds his world turned upside down by the outbreak of war. When his own father is called up by the Army and Freddy accepts an offer from the father of one of his friends to repair his be...
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14.
Series: Mercury Series
Marius Barbeau’s Vitalist Ethnology
New edition
Paperback
Frances M. Slaney
9780776637129
$49.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Age (years) from 16
Jun 07, 2022
The first assessment and review of Marius Barbeau’s ethnographic fieldwork and publications to be written by a professional anthropologist, this book examines his career at Canada’s National Museum (now the Canadian Museum of History) in light of his education at Oxford University and in Paris (1907–1911). Based on archival research performed in Canada, England, and France, Marius Barbeau’s Vitalist Ethnology presents a timeline of his anthropological training through his course notes at the Archives nationales du Québec, as well as his corres...
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15.
Series:
Minds of Winter
Paperback
Ed O'Loughlin
9781780871745
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers . . . stupendously good' Australian'Vastly entertaining' Sunday TimesFROM BOOKER-LONGLISTED ED O'LOUGHLIN: THE PERFECT NOVEL FOR FANS OF AMY SACKVILLE'S THE STILL POINT AND FRANCIS SPUFFORD'S I MAY BE SOME TIME.It begins with a chance encounter at the top of the world.Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each ...
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16.
Series:
Minique
A Novel
Paperback
Anna Maxymiw
9780771096815
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
Loosely based on the lives of real 17th-century figures, Minique is a fierce outsider narrative, a feminist fable, a survival story, and a turbulent romance rolled into one utterly captivating novel.The buzzing in her head gets louder, like there are more bees, and the itching on the top of her mouth is everywhere now, all across her tongue and teeth and the inside of her cheeks, hot, hot, hot. She takes a breath and she sees these men in the forest, sees their hands covered in blood as they skin beavers, ripping the fur from the shiny meat.Mon...
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17.
Series:
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
A Novel
Canadian Edition
Paperback
Lizzie Pook
9781982181932
$24.99
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
A young Englishwoman searches for the truth about the disappearance of her eccentric father in this rich historical adventure novel set in the perilous world of the pearl diving industry in 19th-century Western Australia.Everything has a price. And the truth may cost more than pearls... As the pearling ships return to Bannin Bay after a long diving season, twenty-year-old Eliza Brightwell awaits the arrival of her father’s boat. But when his lugger finally limps in, it brings a tale of tragedy: Charles Brightwell, master pearler, has gone missi...
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18.
Series:
Nathalie
An Acadian's Tale of Tragedy and Triumph
Paperback
Debra Amirault Camelin
9781553806714
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Jun 01, 2022
A captivating historical middle grade novel set in 1750s Nova Scotia, chronicling the life of Nathalie Belliveau, a 13-year-old Acadian girl.Separated from her family during the 1755 expulsion from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, Nathalie travels more than 150 kilometres to Cap-Sable with two older companions, encountering the Mi'kmaq along the way. Nathalie reaches Pobomcoup (Pubnico) and becomes betrothed to Ange Amirault, but her happiness is short-lived when the British deport the Acadians living there from Baccaro Passage in 1756.When a series of ...
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20.
Series:
Rose Nicolson
Memoir of William Fowler of Edinburgh: student, trader, makar, conduit, would-be Lover in early days of our Reform
Hardcover
Andrew Greig
9781784292980
$34.99
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
'A tale I have for you.'Embra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is dead. The people are unmoored and lurching under the uncertain governance of this riven land. It's a deadly time for young student Will Fowler, short of stature, low of birth but mightily ambitious, to make his name.Fowler has found himself where the scorch marks of the martyrs burned at the stake can be seen on every street, where differences in doctrine...
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21.
Series: The Sharpe Series
Sharpe’s Assassin (The Sharpe Series, Book 21)
Paperback
Bernard Cornwell
9780008184056
$12.99
FICTION
Jun 09, 2022
SHARPE IS BACK.The global bestseller Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe.
22.
Series:
Tell Me How It Ends
Paperback
V. B. Grey
9781529405439
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
'A spellbinding read ... the glamour of early Sixties showbiz' LOUISE CANDLISH'Mesmerising and powerful ... an extraordinary sense of time and place' ELLY GRIFFITHS'A stylish and page-turning mystery' RACHEL HORE'Gripping ... her portrait of Sixties London is terrific' ELIZABETH BUCHANLONGLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2021Set in Sixties London, a gripping drama of past secrets revealed, of manipulation and revenge for fans of Daphne du Maurier and noir movies like All About Eve and A Star is BornDelia Maxwell is an international singing s...
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23.
Series:
The Final Secret of Adolf Hitler
Paperback
Mathieu Mariolle
9781643377438
$32.00
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
A final chase between Allied and Nazi submarines at the dawn of the Cold War. December 1944. As the fate of World War II seems to be sealed, a submarine leaves Germany, taking with it Hitler's last hope for winning the war. Two allied commandos immediately set off after the aircraft: one English, the other American. But when the true nature of the precious cargo is revealed, the once parallel paths of these allies begin to diverge...
24.
Series:
The Aerialists
Hardcover
Katie Munnik
9780008473198
$34.99
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
Paris, 1891 Laura is living on the streets, far from the American Prairies where she was born. When rescued by the entrancing aerialists, Ena and Auguste Gaudron, she soon finds herself ensconced in the family hot air balloon business, and offered the chance to learn how to fly.Cardiff, 1896 The Gaudrons accept an invitation to be part of the Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition, presenting a daring show of balloon ascents and parachute descents.Then late one night, a young girl, Grace, knocks on the Gaudrons’ door. She is despe...
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25.
Series:
The Black Mountain
A Quick Reads Book
Paperback
Kate Mosse
9781529088465
$4.99
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
A Quick Reads story set in eighteenth-century Tenerife, under the shadow of a vast volcano that is on the brink of eruption. May, 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife with her mother and twin younger brothers. The town is in the shadow of the mighty volcano, the symbol of Tenerife, which divides the green north from the dry south of the island. Most of the townspeople make their living from the sea, but Ana's family are winemakers and are struggling to keep their business after the death o...
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26.
Series:
The Colour of Glass
Paperback
David Starr
9781553806509
$21.95
FICTION
Jun 03, 2022
A string of trade beads is passed from generation to generation, from Captain Cook at Nootka Sound to a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry hearing in Northern British Columbia.   Through three hundred years of Canadian history, the beads bear witness to the story of a family who unwillingly play a central role in our collective record of assimilation, unbridled racism, colonialism, genocide-and of the ?rare acts of compassion and courage from the ?few settlers who saw injustice and risked the...
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27.
Series:
The Eagle's Claw
A Novel of the Battle of Midway
Paperback
Jeff Shaara
9780525619468
$24.00
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
In a riveting tale that picks up where To Wake the Giant left off, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara transports us to the Battle of Midway in another masterpiece of military historical fiction.Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow the Japanese inflicted at Pearl Harbor. But the Americans are determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known “code breaker” who cracks the Japanese military encryption. With Rochefort’s astonishing discovery, Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precis...
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28.
Series:
The Flanders Road
Paperback
Claude Simon
9781681375953
$22.95
FICTION
Jul 12, 2022
By the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry’s bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII.On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was among the French forces. As they retreated, he saw his captain shot off his horse by a German sniper.This is the primal scene to which Simon returns repeatedly in his ficti...
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29.
Series: The Vinland Viking Saga
The Flight of Anja (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 2)
Paperback
Tamara Goranson
9780008526566
$23.99
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 2
30.
Series:
The German Wife
A Novel
Original
Hardcover
Kelly Rimmer
9781525899904
$35.99
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
“Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page.” —Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in LondonThe New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip: a controversial secret US intelligence program that employed former Nazis after WWII.Berlin, Germany, 1930—When the Nazis rise to power, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes and her academic husband benefit from the military ambitions of Ge...
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31.
Series:
The Last Dress from Paris
Paperback
Jade Beer
9780593436813
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses….London, 2017. There’s no one Lucille adores more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she’s ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something precious to her, she’s happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with retrieving a priceless Dior dress. But not everything is as it seems, and what Lucille finds in a small Parisian apartment will have her scouring the city for answers to a question th...
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33.
Series:
The Lion
Book 1 of The Golden Age
Hardcover
Conn Iggulden
9780241513125
$42.95
FICTION
Jul 26, 2022
EXPERIENCE THE EPIC BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH MASTER STORYTELLER CONN IGGULDEN’Pacy and propulsive…Crackling with energy, violence and stirring speeches, Lion chronicles power struggles, political machinations and the bloodthirsty ravages of up-close combat’ DAILY MAIL’Iggulden draws the Greek world convincingly and he is strongest writing battle scenes’ THE TIMESTHE FIRST BOOK IN CONN IGGULDEN’S EPIC NEW SERIES THE GOLDEN AGE_______Ancient Greece, 5th century BCThe age of myths and legends has given way to the world of men. In the fr...
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34.
Series:
The Ninth Child
Paperback
Sally Magnusson
9781473696624
$17.99
FICTION
Jul 19, 2022
'WONDERFUL. ONE NEVER MESSES WITH THE FAERIES' Melanie Reid, The Times'AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus 'A BRILLIANT TOUR-DE-FORCE -RIVETING' Alistair Moffatt, author of The Hidden Ways 'EXTRAORDINARILY VIVID' Michelle Gallen, author of Big Girl Small TownA spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally Magnusson.Loch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. No place for a lady. Isabel Aird is aghast when her...
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35.
Series:
The Nurse's Secret
A Thrilling Historical Novel of the Dark Side of Gilded Age New York City
Paperback
Amanda Skenandore
9781496726537
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
From acclaimed author and registered nurse Amanda Skenandore, The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America’s first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital’s training school for nurses…“A spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. This is historical fiction at its finest!” – Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker’s Secret Based...
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36.
Series: World Prose
The Opposition
Paperback
Todd Gitlin
9781771837361
$25.00
FICTION
Jun 01, 2022
On civil rights and America's 1960s New Left movement. Set during America’s 1960s New Left movement, The Opposition tells the story of twenty-something young men and women linked by a fierce desire to change the world who become involved in the civil rights and anti-war movements, when under the pressure of Vietnam, and America, unraveling, their web of passion and pain reaches a breaking point. Four women and four men meet in a Midwestern college town in 1963. As racist violence surges in the Deep South, they are seized by the civil rights mov...
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38.
Series:
The Polish Girl
Hardcover
Malka Adler
9780008525309
$32.99
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
In the eye of the warThat tore the world apartA mother wants a sonA daughter needs a mother
39.
Series:
The Punishing Journey of Arthur Delaney
A Novel
Paperback
Bob Kroll
9781770416338
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father’s greatest regret and path to redemption Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life and family. After the war, Delaney odd-jobs his way up the American east coast and catches a schooner ...
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40.
Series:
The Scent of Burnt Flowers
A Novel
Hardcover
Blitz Bazawule
9780593496237
$36.00
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom in this hypnotic debut novel.December 26, 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, and Melvin decides they must flee the country in order to survive. Bernadette, who’s hiding a secret from her fiancé, reluctantly agrees. With a persistent F...
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41.
Series:
The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel
Paperback
Sarah Steele
9781472270139
$14.99
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
The war taught her to fight. The children taught her to hope...From the USA Today bestselling author, The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of love, hope and friendship in World War II. This exquisitely beautiful novel is perfect for readers of The Postmistress, Lilac Girls and The Girl from Vichy."My darling girl, I need you to find someone for me . . ."France, 1942. At the end of the day, the schoolteacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes, and warns them not to stop until th...
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42.
Series: The Jaipur Trilogy
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
A Novel
First Time Trade
Paperback
Alka Joshi
9780778386339
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HENNA ARTIST, A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKGood Morning America’s “27 Books for June" PopSugar’s Best Summer Reads of 2021 In New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi’s intriguing new novel, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to intern at the Jaipur Palace in this tale rich in character, atmosphere, and lavish storytelling.It’s the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school education. At twenty, he has...
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43.
Series:
The Secret Messenger
Paperback
Mandy Robotham
9780008536602
$12.99
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War).
44.
Series:
The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle
Paperback
Sophie Green
9780733644696
$17.99
FICTION
Jul 05, 2022
It's 1982 in Australia. THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER is a box office hit and Paul Hogan is on the TV.In a seaside suburb, housewife Theresa takes up swimming. She wants to get fit; she also wants a few precious minutes to herself. So at sunrise each day she strikes out past the waves.From the same beach, the widowed Marie swims. With her husband gone, bathing is the one constant in her new life.After finding herself in a desperate situation, 25-year-old Leanne only has herself to rely on. She became a nurse to help others, even as she resists help ...
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45.
Series:
The Sky We Shared
Hardcover
Shirley Reva Vernick
9781947627529
$30.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12 - 11
Aug 20, 2022
In southern Japan, Tamiko spends her time writing in her diary, dreaming of making theatrical costumes, and praying her brother Kyo makes it back from the war. She wishes she could be brave like him and help the war effort. In rural Oregon, Nellie spends her time lying in the grass, studying the stars, and wishing for her pa to return from the war and that the boy next—door neighbor, Joey, would talk to her again like he used to. Soon the girls' lives become inextricably linked. Tamiko and her classmates are brought to a damp, repurposed theate...
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46.
Series:
The Teacher of Warsaw
Hardcover
Mario Escobar
9780785252177
$33.50
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably—except for one man’s capacity to love.September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade. Suddenly treated as an outcast in his own city, Janusz—a respected leader known for his heroism and teaching—is determined to do whatever it takes to protect the...
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47.
Series:
The Twilight World
Hardcover
Werner Herzog
9780593490266
$34.00
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War IIIn 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an insta...
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48.
Series:
Theodore Roosevelt
A Literary Life
Paperback
Thomas C. Bailey
9781493066728
$28.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 01, 2022
Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt's lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writing from childhood journals to his final editorial, finished just hours before his death. His most famous book, The Rough Riders--part memoir, part war adventure--barely begins to suggest the dynamism of his literary output. Roosevelt read widely and deeply, and worked tirelessly on his writing. Along with speeches...
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49.
Series:
Wabanang, An Anishinaabe granddaughter’s search for the truth
An Anishinaabe Granddaughter's Search for the Truth
Paperback
Judii Merle
9781990326066
$17.95
FICTION
Jun 25, 2022
In the winter of 1876, a baby is born to Anishinaabe parents along the trapline in the northern Ontario wilderness. Seventy-five years later, her granddaughter is seeking information about her grandmother’s life, why her family is so fractured, and what part the residential school played in the dysfunction and estrangement which has shaped her own life. To that end, twenty-two year old Janey enlists the help of a hypnotist who regresses Janey back to a time when Indigenous people in Canada lived off the land, supported each other and raised the...
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50.
Series:
Wartime at Bletchley Park
Paperback
Molly Green
9780008518554
$23.99
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
? The new sweeping WW2 historical series from Molly Green: available to pre-order now! ?Her code breaking will save lives.But will it save the man she loves…?September 1939. London is in blackout, war has been declared, but Dulcie Treadwell can think only of her heartbreak over American broadcaster, Glenn Reeves, who didn’t say goodbye before leaving for Berlin.Posted to Bletchley Park, Dulcie must concentrate on helping the war effort by cracking the German Enigma codes. The hours are long and the conditions tough, with little recognition from...
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51.
Series: The Shop Girls
Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls (The Shop Girls, Book 6)
Paperback
Joanna Toye
9780008442026
$18.99
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
The new book in the heartwarming WW2 family saga series – available now!
52.
Series:
Willow
Paperback
Tonya Cherie Hegamin
9781536226027
$12.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Jun 14, 2022
In 1848, an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice — between bondage and freedom, family and love.On one side of the Mason-Dixon Line lives fifteen-year-old Willow, her master’s favorite servant. She’s been taught to read and has learned to write. She believes her master is good to her and fears the rebel slave runaways. On the other side of the line is seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, free born. It’s his personal mission to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can. Willow’s and Cato’s lives are about to intersect, wit...
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