Whether your passion is The Ancient Greeks, The Wars of The Roses or The Russian Revolution, you'll find stories of life during these eras and every other, often using factual accounts to build a fictional narrative.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ireland
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Book SynopsisHidden identities, rising political and religious tension, sensual awakening, and artistic vision come together in Vanora Bennett’s luminous and absorbing historical novel of Tudor England reminiscent of the works of Phillipa Gregory, Sarah Dunant, and Tracy Chevalier.1527. A dark curtain has fallen across Europe. Martin Luther’s break with the Vatican has led to civil war and artistic censorship, forcing the renowned portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger to flee to the safety of Tudor England. Under the patronage of one of Henry VIII’s most trusted and brilliant advisors, Sir Thomas More, Holbein painted two portraits of the More family over the course of five years. Though nearly identical, the second is different. Why? And what do these subtle differences mean?In this sweeping epic, Vanora Bennett uses these two pictures to weave a wondrously imagined tale of Tudor England, witnessed through the eyes of Meg, More’s intelligent and headstrong young ward. Set against the turmoil, intrigue, and tragedy of Henry VIII’s court, Portrait of an Unknown Woman is the story of a woman torn between two remarkable yet radically different men—one she will love, the other she will marry. It also the story of a country torn apart by fanaticism, corruption, and the desires of a headstrong king. Rich with colorful detail, full of vibrant characters drawn from the pages of history, this magnificent novel hails the arrival of a visionary new writer and is sure to become one of the most talked about books of the year.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Shoemakers Wife
Book SynopsisTrigiani’s biggest novel to date--a breathtaking multi-generational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and two oceans, replete with the all the drama, sumptuous detail and heart-stopping romance that have made her “One of the reigning queen’s of women’s fiction” (USA Today).Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. Fans of Trigiani’s sweeping family dramas like Big Stone Gap and Lucia, Lucia will love her latest masterpiece, a book Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, calls “totally new and completely wonderful: a rich, sweeping epic which tells the story of the women and men who built America dream by dream.”
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Soul Catcher
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sharpes Fury Low Price CD
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the eleventh installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. In the winter of 1811, the war seems lost. Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz, now the Spanish capital and itself under siege. Inside the city walls an intricate diplomatic dance is taking place and Richard Sharpe faces more than one enemy.The small British force is trapped by a French army, and their only hope lies with the outnumbered redcoats outside refusing to admit defeat. There, in the sweltering horror of Barrosa, Sharpe will meet his old enemy Colonel Vandal once again.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Keeping Faith
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sword Song
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Elizabeth The Golden Age
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc These Is My Words
Book Synopsis“Belongs on your must-read list. This novel is a gem.” —Omaha World-HeraldNancy E. Turner''s unforgettable These Is My Words melds the sweeping adventures and dramatic landscapes of Lonesome Dove with the heartfelt emotional saga of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author''s own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult to loving mother—she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring love with cavalry officer Captain Jack Elliot that gave her strength and purpose. Rich in a
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Miracles of Prato
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Daughter of Fortune
Book SynopsisAn orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Entering a rough-and-tumble world of new arrivals driven mad by gold fever, Eliza moves in a society of single men and prostitutes with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi''en. California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence to the young Chilean, and her search for her elusive lover gradually turns into another kind of journey. By the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Agincourt
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Fountain of St. James Court
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Grass Crown
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns us to an age of magnificent triumphs, volcanic passions, and barbaric cruelties.Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome''s advancing legions. But now internal rebellion threatens the stability of the mighty Republic. An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome. It is a prize to be won only through treachery and with blood, pitting Marius against a new generation of assassins, power-seekers, and Senate intriguers—and setting him at odds with the ambitious, tormented Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once Marius''s most trusted right-hand man, now his most dangerous rival.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fortunes Favorites
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Road to Jerusalem
Book Synopsis For power. For passion. For glory. The epic story of the Knights Templar. Born in 1150 to a noble Swedish family and coming of age at a monastery under the tutelage of a Cistercian monk and a former Knight Templar, young Arn Magnusson is sent to fulfill his destiny beyond the cloister walls. But the world awaiting him is a place at odds with his monastic ways. And when the murder of a king engulfs Western Götaland into a whirlwind of intrigue and ruthless power plays, headstrong and naive Arn is forced to leave the woman he loves behind and take up arms to battle infidels in the Holy Land.The first book in the international bestselling Crusades Trilogy, this thrilling epic of betrayal, faith, blood, and love sets a Shakespearian quest for power (Corriere della Sera, Italy) against the backdrop of the Holy Wars, witnessed through a vibrant, unorthodox lens.
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HarperCollins Birth of the Kingdom
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Queens Lover
Book SynopsisFrom Vanora Bennett, the acclaimed author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman and Figures in Silk comes The Queen’s Lover, a fictionalized account of the life and loves of Catherine de Valois, a woman of enormous courage who became a great queen of two countries. Fans of Phillipa Gregory, Alison Weir, Sarah Dunant, and Tracy Chevalier, and every reader who adores top-quality historical fiction will be swept away by this epic love story set against the rich backdrop of 15th-century England and France—and by this remarkable woman who triumphed magnificently by making her own rules.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Wench
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HarperCollins Lovers at the Chameleon Club Paris 1932
Book SynopsisA richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom.Trade Review"A reading experience like none other-a shimmering library of possible truths and forking pathways...Readers of this extraordinary novel become Villars' co-biographers, piecing through 'official' and underground accounts as ample (and as unreliable) as the human library of memory. I was addicted to this book." -- Karen Russell, author of SWAMPLANDIA "Prose's latest book goes further in destroying the concept of a single truth than 'Rashomon.' It's also an uproarious portrait of Paris from the mid-twenties to the Second World War. Prose has always been adept at slaying sacred cows; in this book, she pretty much machine-guns them." -- Gary Shteyngart, author of LITTLE FAILURE, A Memoir "An engrossing literary mystery...Refracting the vivid, villainous life of Louisianne Villars through letters, memoirs, and the recreations of a biographer, Prose coaxes into kaleidoscopic view both a tortured human being and bohemian Paris before and during the Nazi occupation... she cleverly exploits the vain, self-serving nature of memory itself." -- Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD "A pitch perfect pastiche that interrogates the meaning of art and the limits of loyalty. With a style that is beautiful, strong, modest and absolutely authoritative Prose directs the light of her immense talent on the horrors of fascism and the puzzling, sometimes punishing nature of love. A great novel." -- Scott Spencer, author of MAN IN THE WOODS and A SHIP MADE OF PAPER "Significant writers are rare. A writer like Prose, who is not only significant but capable of writing brilliantly about pretty much anything-from obsessive love to religious ecstasy to life in Paris in the twenties and beyond-is not only rare. She is, essentially, the Hope Diamond of literature." -- Michael Cunningham "Brilliant and wicked and funny and right on-never has Europe been done with such savage precision...Every bit funny and appalling, at the end especially, of course. There's not a French affectation, hypocrisy or depravity left untouched. I love it!" -- Diane Johnson, author of LE MARIAGE and L'AFFAIRE "Prose is the real chameleon here, blending effortlessly into half a dozen disparate voices...The result is a perfect stunner, the novel-as-a Picasso, or a kaleidoscope-vivid, fractured, and spellbinding...Prose is one of our sharpest critics and our most daring novelists, and this is her best book." -- Joshua Ferris, author of AND THEN WE CAME TO THE END "The breadth, nerve and intricacy of Francine Prose's big new novel should surprise even her most regular readers. A bona fide page turner..." -- The New York Times "A novel of great reach and power, a portrait of an entire era." -- The New York Times Book Review "So dazzlingly does Francine Prose re-create this seamy chapter of mid-century Paris that it's tempting to think of her as not a novelist but an editor who corralled all these people into a raucous work of history...C'est magnifique!" -- The Washington Post "A master of the craft delivers a riveting period piece that probes the origins of evil." -- O Magazine "A tour de force...The result is fresh, layered and nuanced. It's historical fiction done right and one of the finest accomplishments of this accomplished author...The novel dazzles. With sure, intelligent narrative and elegant detail, Prose has crafted a story that honors its characters and a pivotal time in history." -- Miami Herald "Engrossing...The narrative twists and turns, circles back to add depth to previous scenes, at other times casts doubt on the reliability of a narrator, and occasionally calls into question the entire endeavor of historical fiction." -- Elle "Brilliant and dazzling...A tour de force of character, point of view and especially atmosphere" -- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "The circumstances that foster such unhappiness are always elusive, but they can be explored. That's the task of a good novel, and Prose has done the job." -- The Seattle Times "[E]xcellent novel... With a deft and frequently scathing touch, Prose sends up nearly every literary type imaginable and then some..." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "Prose's excellent novel, which treads between lightly mischievous (mocking Henry Miller) and deadly serious (invading Nazis), centers on a fictionalized French Olympic hopeful who spied for the Germans - and was killed by the Resistance in 1944." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "Prose exuberantly conjures up the romance of that unstable era...filled with felicitous imagery and sparkling period details." -- Wall Street Journal "[A] stunning novel...a provocative exploration of identity and the search for acceptance." -- BookPage "Prose's novel pulses with the heartbeat of real life, brimming with colorful characters as artists (including, notably, Pablo Picasso), petty forgers, Nazis and resistance fighters meet on the page... It is a testament to Prose's considerable talent that she's able to execute such an ambitious work so flawlessly." -- Shelf Awareness Many sure-footed novelists have tried to embody Paris in its boozy, gender-bending, art-and-outrage pre-occupation golden age of the '20s and '30s before, but the ever-exceptional Prose succeeds in making the city alive by supplying it with a dissonant, avant-garde chorus of voices... -- Interview Magazine "An ingenious excursion into the Parisian demimonde." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR.org "A dark and glorious tour de force...In an intricately patterned, ever-morphing, lavishly well-informed plot spanning the French countryside and reaching to Berlin, Prose intensifies our depth perception of that time of epic aberration and mesmerizing evil as she portrays complex, besieged individuals struggling to become their true selves." -- Booklist (starred review) "The novel skillfully portrays the headiness of Parisian cafes, where artists and writers came together to talk and cadge free drinks, and the terror of the Nazi Occupation... Prose deftly demonstrates with a wink the self-seeking nature of memory and the way we portray our past." -- Publishers Weekly "A rich portrait of a difficult age" -- The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 will be many things to many people-history, mystery, chronicle, commentary-but above all, it's a generous book that offers complete submergence in a world constructed for readers' enjoyment. It's a dark and complicated place, this lamp-lit prewar Paris, but a remarkably entertaining one." -- Kirkus Reviews "Prose does an impressive job crafting a plot in which each version of the story takes on its own dimensions and echoes - and the biggest question may be just which one of those narrators is the most outrageously unreliable." -- The Tampa Bay Times "Francine Prose, in a testament to her talents, has managed to create a wartime saga that is both original and epic." -- The Daily Beast "LOVERS AT THE CHAMELEON CLUB, PARIS 1932 is a remarkable work of fiction that feels completely true. Richly atmospheric and utterly engrossing, it is not to be missed." -- BookPage "[F]ascinating... Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 captures the vibrance and violence of bohemian Paris before World War II..." -- W Magazine "Sexy, cross-dressing athlete Lou Villars is as complex as her Nazi-era Paris home." -- Marie Claire "At its best moments, the reader almost becomes another character in the novel, searching for meaning amid the menace and beauty of wartime Paris, surrounded by the city's many conflicting truths." -- The Chicago Tribune "LOVERS AT THE CHAMELEON CLUB, PARIS 1932 paints an unforgettable portrait of Paris between the wars, a time and place that holds endless fascination for readers." -- Bookreporter.com "Provocative, powerful." -- USA Today "LOVERS AT THE CHAMELEON CLUB is a teeming social portrait, told through several peculiar voices - Lou's is not one of them - and made real by astonishingly authentic details... Prose is versatile and fluid." -- The Asheville Citizen-Times "The wonder of Ms. Prose's terrific historical novel is how she takes inspiration from a work of visual art and builds, not just one story, not just one voice, but a kaleidoscope of voices and angles about individuals whose lives intersect at a particular time and place." -- BookBrowse "Sexy, illicit ... the best stories come to us many times over, repeated until even their true parts bear the qualities of fiction. They're also the ones we can't possibly know all of. This powerful, perceptive book offers these truths, and-even better-a great story to shroud them." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "A tour de force of character, point of view and especially atmosphere..." -- Kirkus Reviews, Named a Modern Classic "Epic...this world takes on a depth and breadth that justifies the novel's sweeping ambitions -- Lesbian & Gay Review
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HarperCollins Every House Needs a Balcony
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Secret Alchemy
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Believe
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Serpent of Venice
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe in The Serpent of Venice, a satiric Venetian gothic that brings back the Pocket of Dog Snogging, the eponymous hero of Fool, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff.Venice, a long time ago.Trade Review"Shakespeare and Poe might be rolling in their graves, but they're rolling with laughter. Christopher Moore is one of the cleverest, naughtiest writers alive." -- Carl Hiaasen, New York Times bestselling author of a whole bunch of excellent books, including Bad Monkey, Nature Girl, and Sick Puppy on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "Fans who enjoyed the rollicking play within a play of Fool or the historical whimsy of Sacre Bleu will find many of the same gifts here ... from one of America's most original humorists." -- Kirkus Reviews on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "Fans of Fool will be overjoyed to rejoin Pocket and company ... for their latest adventure, and newcomers will find that Shakespeare isn't nearly as dry and dusty as they thought, at least not when Moore is at the helm. -- Library Journal (starred review) on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "Moore's imaginative storytelling, bawdy prose, puns aplenty ... succeed in transforming two classical tragedies into outrageously farcical entertainment." -- Publishers Weekly on THE SERPENT OF VENICE Moore's greatest asset is his skill with language. Readers with a certain Monty Python nerdiness will rejoice in its hundreds of insults ... and jokes... [W]itty and wise ... Serpent is a bright, quick novel." (3 out of 4 stars) -- USA Today on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "The dialogue is extremely witty, and ... you will laugh hard and find yourself hurling bawdy insults throughout the day, even if you don't say them out lout." -- Louisville Courier Journal on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "Moore ... is an excellent writer, and there are passages of prose-Pocket's defense of Othello and the entire Pound-of-Flesh trial-that sparkle with Moore's trademark wit and intelligence. Moore's strength is his ability to appropriate supporting characters and make them wholly his own creations. -- Dallas Morning News on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "To get a sense of the tone, imagine the merry pranksters of Monty Python in their heyday taking off on Shakespeare while simultaneously trying to break the record for F-bombs currently held by The Wolf of Wall Street." -- Tampa Bay Times on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "A gleeful and wonderfully strange mash-up. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and Othello are its chief ingredients, with Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Cask of Amontillado' thrown in. The result? An imaginative, wildly inspired satire." -- Seattle Times on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "[Moore] brings back one of his favorite characters, Pocket from 2009's Fool... Add a weirdly satisfying combo of literary in-jokes and low sex gags to the mix and what comes out of the Christopher Moore meat grinder is unique and sublime." -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram on THE SERPENT OF VENICE "The Serpent of Venice is a remarkable reimagining of classic literature, churned through historical backgrounds and research and set to a different drum. Tragedy becomes comedy in this side-splitting, hair-raising adventure... A piece of literary gold." -- Bookreporter.com on THE SERPENT OF VENICE
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Tumbling
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HarperCollins Given Day
Book SynopsisGut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive.—New York TimesNow available with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Dennis LehaneDennis Lehane’s beautifully written novel tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, it explores the crippling violence and irrepressi
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc So Big
Book SynopsisWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeA masterpiece. — Literary Review • A novel to read and to remember. —New York TimesWidely regarded as the masterwork of celebrated author and Algonquin Round Table mainstay Edna Ferber—who also penned other classics including Show Boat, Giant, Ice Palace, Saratoga Trunk, and Cimarron—So Big is a powerful and stirring portrait of one of the most memorable women in American literature, and still resonates today with its unflinching views of poverty, sexism, and the drive for success.Set in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century, So Big tells the story of Selina Peake, orphaned at nineteen after her father is shot and killed in a gambling house. Alone and resolved to make something of her life, Selina gets a job as a schoolteacher in a farming community outside Chicago and falls in love with a kind
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Waiting for Sunrise
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Orphan Train
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Orphan Train
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Ape Who Guards the Balance
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Falcon at the Portal
Book Synopsis“Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.”—New York Times Book Review New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters transports us to the Land of the Pharoahs—and leaves us in the most capable hands of intrepid archeologist and adventurer Amelia Peabody—in The Falcon at the Portal. A suspenseful and always surprising romp through 1911 Egypt with Amelia and her equally indomitable family, the Emersons, The Falcon at the Portal immerses us in a fascinating world of antiquity and majesty, and plunges us into a mystery as perilous as it is puzzling. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer suggests, let us all “raise a toast to the incomparable Amelia Peabody.”
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Book Synopsis“Passion among the pyramids. Forged antiquities. A country at war. A camel in the garden. A cameo by Lawrence of Arabia. Add in Peters’s trademark intelligent plotting, engaging characters, and stylish writing and we can hardly ask for anything more.”—Cincinnati Enquirer One of the most beloved characters in mystery/suspense fiction, archeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody bravely faces gravest peril in Cairo on the eve of World War One in New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters’s magnificent Egyptian adventure, He Shall Thunder in the Sky. The San Francisco Examiner calls these heart-racing exploits of Amelia and her courageous family, the Emersons, “pure delight.” But perhaps the New York Times Book Review states it best: “Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.”
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt A Novel in
Book Synopsis“The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt is a literary bottle rocket—loaded with whimsy, pizzazz, and heart.”—Adriana Trigiani “Is it possible that I have just read/experienced/devoured the most delightful book ever published?Trade Review"Impossible to crack open the book without wanting to devour it... a tale of the Roaring '20s illustrated in the dazzling language of trinkets and baubles... the kind of visual candy that coffee tables were designed to showcase." -- NPR.org "The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt" is a retro delight. Meticulously assembled and designed by the author from her own huge collection of memorabilia, it turns scrapbooking into a literary art form. Fans of the Roaring '20s, Nick Bantock and modernism will all find something of value in Preston's nostalgic ephemera." -- Washington Post "In her whimsical mash-up of historical fiction and scrapbooking, Caroline Preston uses vintage images and artifacts, paper ephemera and flapper-era souvenirs... Apparently no junk shop or eBay seller was spared in Preston's search for ways to bring her fictional heroine to life." -- O, The Oprah Magazine, Lead Review "In THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT, Caroline Preston, a former archivist, pastes vintage postcards, Jazz Age ephemera and typewritten snippets into a sweetly beguiling novel about a New England girl who trades Vassar College for Greenwich Village on the advice of Edna St. Vincent Millay." -- New York Times Magazine "Every coat button, baseball card, or gramophone record seems to conduct electricity... As a reader, you are enchanted with Frankie Pratt's life...because her life-so carefully constructed and so elegantly detailed-is not so different from our own." -- DoubleX "The epistolary novel is ages old, the Twitter novel a la mode, but...The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt-to my knowledge-is the first scrapbook novel...[A] charming and transporting story, a collage of vintage memorabilia...and other ephemera depicts the adventures of an aspiring flapper-era writer." -- VanityFair.com "An American (flapper) in Paris: Le Dome cafe, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and l'amour all show up in scrapbook form in this novel." -- AARP.org "The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston is for those who love history, strong young women, and unusual story-telling." -- Examiner.com "Somehow, Preston manages to make this scene feel fresh--partly because [this] really is a scrapbook, each page composed of artifacts: advertisements, yearbook photos, ticket stubs, menus from the automat, and paper dolls modeling their finest... its vintage graphics and sweet, sincere storytelling make it a pure pleasure." -- Boston Globe "Literal, literary and lovely...Preston's book is a visual journey unlike any other novel out there right now...Can be devoured in the course of a pot of tea on a cold day [but] pick [it] up the next day just to look at the images." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Selecting from her own collection of period mementos, Preston (Gatsby's Girl, 2006, etc.) creates a literal scrapbook for a young New Hampshire woman coming of age in the 1920s...Lighter than lightweight but undeniably fun, largely because Preston is having so much fun herself." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The vintage scrapbook is an effective vehicle for an entertaining coming-of-age story steeped in the pop culture of the Roaring Twenties. A highly enjoyable read well suited to historical romance fans and scrapbookers alike." -- Library Journal "THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT is like reading your favorite flapper great-aunt's diary. It's a ripping yarn of emancipated girlish adventure." -- Audrey Niffenegger "What an amazing, creative, funny, thoughtful dip into the life and times of the inimitable Frankie. I know I'll come back to Preston's wonderful creation time and again; for its color, warmth and whimsy. It's a very, very clever novel." -- Jacqueline Winspear "[H]ave I just read/experienced/devoured the most delightful book ever published? ...There is magic here and genius. I marveled at every page: at first, just the astonishing collection of souvenirs and memorabilia and then the story-so wry and smart and literary and historically fascinating." -- Elinor Lipman "A literary bottle rocket-loaded with whimsy, pizzazz and heart. The illustrations are compelling and original, and the prose is perfection in the hands of Caroline Preston... I heartily recommend." -- Adriana Trigiani "I've been enjoying Caroline Preston's ingenious THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT, a novel made up entirely of vintage images. It's nifty and fun-[and] the plot moves along, too!" -- The Paris Review (blog)
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Death of Kings
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Pagan Lord
Book SynopsisThe seventh installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward, his son, reigns as king. Wessex survives, but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will not rest until the emerald crown is theirs. Uhtred, once Alfred’s great warrior but now out of favor with the new king, must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, that great Northumbrian fortress, Bebbanburg. In The Pagan Lord, loyalties will be divided and men will fall, as every Saxon kingdom is drawn into the bloodiest battle yet with the Danes: a war that will decide the fate of every king, and the entire British nation.
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HarperCollins The Emerald Storm
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Keeping Faith
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Stockholm Octavo
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Golden One
Book SynopsisA richly woven tale of greed, treachery, intrigue, and murder in a breathtaking realm of ancient wonders and crumbling splendorA new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers. But it is son Ramses who faces the most dire threat, answering a call that will carry him to the fabled seaport of Gaza on a mission as personal as it is perilous—where death will be the certain consequence of exposure. While far away, Ramses''s beautiful wife, Nefret, guards a secret of her own. . . .
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Children of the Storm
Book SynopsisOnce again, the New York Times bestselling author of the Amelia Peabody novels “kicks up a desert storm.”People The “grande dame of historical mystery” (Washington Post) is back with a thrilling new tale featuring America's favorite archaeologist turned sleuth. At last the Great War is over. Amelia Peabody, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy, their son, Ramses, and his wife, Nefret, have become parents. Amelia, enjoying the role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking perilous missions for British intelligence and no old enemies on their trail. Yet the hazards of the past will be overshadowed by new danger and a new adversaryunlike anything Amelia's ever encounteredwho will pursue her in a battle that puts innocent young lives at stake.
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HarperCollins Muhammad
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Jerusalem Maiden
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Confession of Katherine Howard
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Lady in Disguise
Book SynopsisIt’s a case of mistaken identities and unmistakable attraction in New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’ classic historical romance, previously published as The Reluctant Reformer!Lady Maggie Wentworth must support herself as an investigative reporter.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pirate Latitudes Low Price CD
Book Synopsis“Crichton’s ultimate adventure.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action….A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure.”—USA Today
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Leaving Everything Most Loved
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, now available in paperback—the tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series—“a series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal)—in which the death of an Indian immigrant leads Maisie in an unexpected direction.In Leaving Everything Most Loved by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London. The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation. The case becomes even more challenging when another Indian woman is murdered just hours before a scheduled int
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