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A Novel
by Elizabeth Gaffney
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by Robin Oliveira
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter comes a rich and compelling historical novel about the disappearance of two young girls after a cataclysmic blizzard, and what happens when their fate is discovered.
The Remarkable Courtship of General Tom Thumb
by Nicholas Rinaldi
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsAn irresistible novel set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and based on the real life of Tom Thumb, a young man only twenty-five inches tall.
by Ken Follett
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsThe first novel in The Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
by E.L. Doctorow
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFrom Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, Worlds Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.
by Sara Gruen
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsAn atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932 illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.
by Pete Hamill
Published Nov 2003
Read ReviewsThis unforgettable novel tells the epic tale of an extraordinary Irishman who arrives in New York City in 1740 and remains... forever.
by Beverly Swerling
Published Jun 2002
Read ReviewsRich with unforgettable characters and history, intricately plotted and utterly absorbing, City of Dreams is a stirring saga of early Manhattan and the beginnings of medical science told by a master storyteller.
by Richard Rayner
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsA transforming journey into the heart of beauty and the peril of love, a romantic, lyrical epic that resurrects history with great authenticity and drama.
by Gore Vidal
Published Sep 2001
Read ReviewsThe concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling American empire novels.
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