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Revelation
by C.J. Sansom
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 23 Feb 2010
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| Spring, 1543. When an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake promises his widow to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to both Archbishop Cranmer and Catherine Parr – whom King Henry VIII is wooing to become his sixth wife - and the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. |
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Honolulu
by Alan Brennert
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 2 Feb 2010
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| From the bestselling author of Moloka'i comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city. |
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Land of Marvels: A Novel
by Barry Unsworth
Hardcover: Jan 2009
Paperback: 11 Jan 2010
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| In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, Barry Unsworth brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. |
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Sashenka: A Novel
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: 17 Nov 2009
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| In the bestselling tradition of Doctor Zhivago and Sophie's Choice, a sweeping epic of Russia from the last days of the Tsars to today's age of oligarchs -- by the prizewinning author of Young Stalin. |
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Museum of Human Beings
by Colin Sargent
Hardcover: Dec 2008
Paperback: 1 Nov 2009
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| A Shoshone woman, Sacagawea, leads Lewis and Clark to the Pacific at the turn of the 19th century. On her back is her infant son, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the youngest member of the Expedition - a child caught between two worlds. |
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The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel
by Kathleen Kent
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 19 Oct 2009
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| Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. The Heretic's Daughter tells her story; a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution. |
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The Black Tower
by Louis Bayard
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Oct 2009
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| Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France’s most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mystery—the fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI. |
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Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
Hardcover: Oct 2008
Paperback: 29 Sep 2009
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| A motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts embark on a voyage across the Indian Ocean in the midst of the Opium Wars between Britain and China. |
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