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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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Murder on the Eiffel Tower: A Mystery
by Claude Izner
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 15 Sep 2009
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| Murder on the Eiffel Tower is a painstakingly researched but seemingly effortless evocation of 19th century Paris, and an exciting opening to a new series featuring second-hand bookseller and amateur detective Victor Legris. |
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The Given Day: A Novel
by Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. |
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A Mercy: A Novel
by Toni Morrison
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: 11 Aug 2009
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| A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. |
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The Outlander
by Gil Adamson
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 30 Jun 2009
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| In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow—and her husband's killer. |
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The 19th Wife: A Novel
by David Ebershoff
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: 2 Jun 2009
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| Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a novel of literary suspense. |
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The Gift of Rain: A Novel
by Tan Twan Eng
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 5 May 2009
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| Written in lush, evocative prose, The Gift of Rain spans decades as it takes readers from the final days of the Chinese emperors to the dying era of the British Empire, and through the mystical temples, bustling cities, and forbidding rain forests of Malaya. |
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Lavinia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 28 Apr 2009
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| Troy has fallen and Rome is a tiny village by the seven hills. Lavinia, daughter of a local king, has lived in peace and freedom until suitors come seeking her hand, and a foreign fleet sails up the Tiber. Now, she tells the story Vergil left untold - her story, her life, and the love of her life. |
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City of Thieves: A Novel
by David Benioff
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 1 Apr 2009
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| A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds; an intimate coming-of-age tale with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men. |
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