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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews, excerpts, reading guides and more of exceptional historical fiction.
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The Butterfly Cabinet: A Novel
by Bernie McGill
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 1 May 2012
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| Vivid, mysterious, and unforgettable, The Butterfly Cabinet is Bernie McGill's engrossing portrayal of the dark history that intertwines two lives - a haunting novel full of frightening silences and sorrowful absences that build toward an unexpected, chilling truth. |
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The Dovekeepers: A Novel
by Alice Hoffman
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 3 Apr 2012
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| Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. |
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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel
by Melanie Benjamin
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 1 Apr 2012
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| A barnstorming novel of the Gilded Age, and of a woman's public triumphs and personal tragedies, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb is the irresistible epic of a heroine who conquered the country with a heart as big as her dreams - and whose story will surely win over yours. |
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A Moment in the Sun
by John Sayles
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 14 Feb 2012
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| It's 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war... This is history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen. |
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Gillespie and I: A Novel
by Jane Harris
Paperback: 31 Jan 2012
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| From the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes a beautifully conjured and wickedly sharp tale of art and deception in nineteenth-century Scotland. |
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Three Weeks in December
by Audrey Schulman
Paperback: 31 Jan 2012
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| Evoking both Barbara Kingsolver and Andrea Barrett, this enthralling fiction, wise and generous, explores some of the crucial social and cultural challenges that, over the years, have come to shape our world. |
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The Anatomy of Ghosts
by Andrew Taylor
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 17 Jan 2012
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| The Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and author of the quarter-of-a-million-copy bestseller, The American Boy, returns with a haunting tale reminiscent of Turn of the Screw. |
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
by Michelle Moran
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 27 Dec 2011
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| The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire... but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin. |
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