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A Novel
by Paula McLain
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by Paula McLain
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsThe extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit.
by Gavin McCrea
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsVery little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman and longtime lover of Frederick Engels, coauthor of The Communist Manifesto. In Gavin McCrea's first novel, the unsung Lizzie is finally given a voice that won't be forgotten.
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by Francine Prose
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsA 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.
by Lily King
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsFrom New England Book Award winner Lily King comes a breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the '30's caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.
by TaraShea Nesbit
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThe Wives of Los Alamos is a bold and emotionally charged debut novel told in the collective voices of the wives of the men who created the atom bomb.
by Nancy Horan
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsA much-anticipated second novel which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
by Naomi Wood
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Anne Fowler
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald.
by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsSet at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society." In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other
by Melanie Benjamin
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsIn the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
by Laura Moriarty
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsA captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both.
by Paul Hendrickson
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsA brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.
by John Paul Rathbone
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsThe son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island's haute bourgeoisie.
by Elizabeth Kostova
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsKostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
by Nancy Horan
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsAn exceptional first novel based on the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her clandestine love affair with famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
by Michael Wallner
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsSet in 1943, April In Paris, by first time German novelist Wallner, is the dramatic story of an impossible love between a German soldier and a French Resistance fighter in occupied Paris.
by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsThe story of Child's growth from a naive newleywed into a great cook and one of the best and most influential teachers of the twentieth century.
by Ernest Hemingway
Published Jul 2000
Read ReviewsBoth a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari. Written in 1953, edited and first published by son, Patrick, in 1999.
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