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City of Tranquil Light : A Novel
by Bo Caldwell
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 25 Oct 2011
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Inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents - City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation.

Bright and Distant Shores : A Novel
by Dominic Smith
Paperback: 13 Sep 2011
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From the award-winning author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific.

The Mistress of Nothing : A Novel
by Kate Pullinger
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 6 Sep 2011
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The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady's maid's awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley.

The Golden Mean
by Annabel Lyon
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 6 Sep 2011
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A startlingly original first novel by "this generation's answer to Alice Munro" (The Vancouver Sun) - a bold reimagining of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.

Fall of Giants : Book One of the Century Trilogy
by Ken Follett
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 30 Aug 2011
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The 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.

Private Life
by Jane Smiley
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 14 Jun 2011
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A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.

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