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A single photo taken one hot summer night forges an unforgettable bond for two star-crossed strangers in this decades-spanning story of fate, love, and ambition. When Abraham Ford and Rebecca Garavano meet as teenagers in 1977 at a Grateful Dead concert, the connection between them is as instant...

When her elderly mother starts making impulsive choices, Gwen panics – but her mother insists everyone, regardless of age, has the right to choose their own happiness in this new novel by beloved author, Susan Meissner. San Diego, 1969. As Apollo astronauts prepare to take the first steps on...

“A beautiful, moving portrait of lives reshaped by war and its aftermath. Tara Lynn Masih is a tremendous talent.” —Olivia Hawker, bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow An extraordinary novel inspired by the real women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the Manhattan...

Blending fact and fiction, Midnight Patriots follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America. It’s 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America’s nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin’s mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him.

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award An AudioFile Editors’ Pick for Summer Listening A Cullman Times Pick of Beach Reads A Shreveport Times Pick of Beach Reads with a Thrill One of Goodreads Biggest Books of Summer 2023 An International Pulpwood Queens Choice of Bonus Book-Club Reads A...

From the author of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles with The Sins of the Father. With war between Britian and Germany on the immediate horizon, Harry Clifton has joined the merchant marines to escape long...

In the aftermath of the Great War, the line between friend and foe may be hard to discern, even for indomitable former Secret Service agent Verity Kent, in award-winning author Anna Lee Huber's thrilling mystery series. Peacetime has brought little respite for Verity Kent. Intrigue still abounds...

A New York Times Bestseller “This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times “The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into tableaus of deceit and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 A moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime... One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal...

The story of the Gunbus. First Lieutenant Bill Harsker and his squadron come up against the deadly Fokker monoplane. While many other squadrons are decimated, the Gunbuses give the fledgling RFC hope. When a new commanding officer takes over the squadron and imposes impossible rules, lives are lost and Bill has to face a court martial. All of the gains they have made are threatened by a martinet. The novel spans the end of 1915 and the start of 1916. It shows the harsh realities of life on the Western Front, in the air and the problems of the civilians back home.

A long-buried crime. A marriage built on lies. Could the truth be a second chance? England, 1902. More than a decade has passed since a wrongful accusation sent a young man to the gallows, an injustice that shattered the lives of those left behind—including Theodora Hallewell and Toby...

Llega a su fin la monumental saga literaria sobre el fascismo, con los últimos seiscientos días de Mussolini hasta su ejecución en abril de 1945, cuando su cadáver se colgó boca abajo en la Plaza Loreto, en Milán. En este último volumen, Scurati narra los meses más oscuros de la República italiana, la hora de la peor violencia de una guerra civil que sembró el terror en las calles mientras los aliados bombardeaban el país.

Minnesota's winter is freezing cold, but its market for guns has never been hotter. February 1922 Prohibition has reached a fever pitch, transforming lowly bootleggers and gangsters into wealthy businessmen beyond sanction. The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, known to the criminal underworld as Crooks' Haven, has a rule for out-of-town mobsters: Come visit anytime; just pay your bribes and keep your criminal activity outside the city limits. Niklas and Kessler Kristofferson, Danish brothers recently returned from the Great War, recognize this as an opportunity.

From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mrs England and The Household, comes Stacey Halls' most gripping, unsettling and thought-provoking novel yet. London, 1960. When Celia and Gregory Ringrose buy their first home on the edge of Hampstead Heath they feel like they've won...

En cette année 1938, Berlin vit au rythme de la terreur nazie. Pour la famille Landau, des Juifs possédant un petit magasin de musique, il devient presque impossible de survivre. Et lorsque la terrible Nuit de Cristal éclate, avec ses assassinats et ses déportations, Rachel la fille aînée...

Edith, gymnaste et danseuse accomplie, rêve de ballet et de succès olympiques. Mais en 1943, la vie en Hongrie est dangereuse pour une jeune fille juive et alors que l'Europe s'embrase, Edith est déportée à Auschwitz avec sa famille. Lorsque l'horreur sévit partout autour d'elle et que la...

As the end of the Second World War in Europe looms, a new conflict is in its early stages: who will control Europe when the war ends? Soviet double-agent 'Archie' is now a British diplomat in the United States, feeding information on the Special Relationship back to Moscow Centre. Meanwhile...

From the author of Their Shadows Deep comes a powerful story of first love and second chances, deadly secrets and life-changing truths, closed chapters and open doors. Bestselling author and esteemed Ohio University Professor Emmet Maze is at the height of his career—and a world away from his...

En el Londres bombardeado, una secretaria encontró su misión: responder al corazón de las mujeres. Londres, 1940. En medio de los bombardeos nocturnos, Emmy Lake anhela ser corresponsal de guerra, pero su sueño se ve truncado al conseguir un puesto como mecanógrafa para la implacable columnista de consejos, Henrietta Bird. La señora Bird tiene una regla: toda carta "desagradable" va a la basura. Pero Emmy no puede ignorar el grito desesperado de mujeres que sufren la guerra, la pérdida y los amores fallidos.

During World War II, a star baseball player trades his bat for a rifle and discovers that some battles can't be won on any field. Will Jamison has it all as a rising star for the Washington Senators when Pearl Harbor changes everything. Driven by patriotism and family legacy, he enlists in the Army, leaving behind fame, fortune, and his secret affair with the married Kay Barlow. During the Battle of the Bulge, Jamison's unit makes a heroic stand near Bastogne against overwhelming German forces. He earns a Silver Star, but the brutal carnage leaves invisible scars that no medal can heal.