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Heresy
by S.J. Parris
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.

The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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The Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during war­time, when those we cherish leave. And how every story - of love or war - is about looking left when we should have been looking right.

Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
Hardcover: Apr 2010
Paperback: 11 Jan 2011
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From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.

Daughters of the Witching Hill : A Novel
by Mary Sharratt
Hardcover: Apr 2010
Paperback: 5 Jan 2011
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Daughters of the Witching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt.

Alice I Have Been
by Melanie Benjamin
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: 1 Jan 2011
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Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole –and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.

Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: 26 Oct 2010
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A voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's enthralling new novel.

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Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations
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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.
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A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
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