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by Therese Anne Fowler
Published Oct 2019
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by Phillip Margulies
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsA sweeping historical novel based on the extraordinary life and times of Belle Cora, the daughter of a New York merchant who went on to become a millworker, a prostitute, a notorious madam, a murderess, and eventually one of San Francisco's richest and most revered dowagers.
by Eleanor Catton
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsFrom the author of The Rehearsal comes a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems....
by Caro De Robertis
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsFrom Perón's glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a Montevideo butchershop to U.S. embassy halls, The Invisible Mountain celebrates a nations spirit, the will to survive in the most desperate of circumstances, and the fierce and complex connections between mother and daughter.
by Jonathan Raymond
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsA debut novel set in the Pacific Northwest of the 1820s and 1980s - two friendships separated by generations but bound together by a dark mystery.
by H.W. Brands
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsTells the stories of the great fortunes made and of great fortunes lost by hundreds now forgotten by history; and reveals the profound effect of the Gold Rush on the way Americans viewed their destinies, as the Puritan ethic of hard work and the gradual accumulation of worldly riches gave way to the notion of getting rich quickly.
The Lost Daughter of Happiness
by Geling Yan
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsThe story of a love affair between an enigmatic Chinese prostitute and the Caucasian boy who worships her. Set in San Francisco in the aftermath of the Gold Rush - a time when millions came to seek their fortune and the city was plagued by anti-Chinese violence.
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