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by Ken Follett
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Absorbing . . . impossible to resist.” —The Washington Post As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder,...
by Ken Follett
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2003

"Vintage Follett . . . This is his most ambitious novel and it succeeds admirably." —USA Today Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the Cold War, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception,...
by Ken Follett
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015

The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and A Column of Fire His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the...
by Tracy Chevalier
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

**“With impeccable research and flawless prose, Chevalier perfectly conjures the grandeur of the pristine Wild West . . . and the everyday adventurers—male and female—who were bold enough or foolish enough to be drawn to the unknown. She crafts for us an excellent experience.” —USA Today From...
by Ken Follett
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed—“it will hold...

Dissolution

A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery

by C. J. Sansom
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004

From the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion comes the exciting and elegantly written first novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series *Dissolution *is an utterly riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful...
by Tracy Chevalier
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001

The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of Remarkable Creatures and The Last Runaway Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this...

Dark Fire

A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery

by C. J. Sansom
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005

**From the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion comes a second riveting sixteenth-century thriller featuring hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake **   In 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, Shardlake is asked to help a young girl accused of murder. She refuses to...
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011

A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans....

The Women

A Novel

by T.C. Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009

A “riveting” (Wall Street Journal) portrait of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the women in his life – 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of Wright’s birth Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010

Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume. A TALE OF TWO CITIES After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the...

The Forty Rules of Love

A Novel of Rumi

by Elif Shafak
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010

In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams...

Year of Wonders

A Novel of the Plague

by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002

**An unforgettable tale of a brave young woman during the plague in 17th century England from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. ** When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as...
by David Ebershoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001

Now an Academy Award-winning major motion picture, starring Academy Award-winners Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander and directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper National Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book * Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction * Winner of...
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