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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...

From the New York Times bestselling and National Jewish Book Award winning author: a dramatic and hopeful story of escape and survival in WWII Europe. It is October 1944, and Hitler has dispatched Adolf Eichmann and his death squads to Hungary to annihilate the Jewish population. Julia Powers...

The new novel from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Impossibility of Love and The Baroness. Tuscany, 1470: in the bright light of a new day, an artist is lying awake. He is thinking about a new painting, a fresco, that will shape his future, and echo down the centuries. In the 1920s...

An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires “Hadley is pure magic.” ―Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Heart the Lover “A coming-of-age story humming with all the tightly packed...

A stunning debut chronicling a Japanese family’s life on the windswept coast of central California and the tragedy of their forced removal and incarceration during World War II A young woman walks down a snowy sidewalk in a Midwestern city. It is 1944, the country is at war, and this is not...

A man in exile. A young bride left behind. A mistress who becomes their go-between. A connection like no other. On a warm spring night in 1949, Benedito da Silva kills a man: a drunken stranger who has followed him home and attacked Bene’s new bride. When the dead man’s powerful family...

Inspired by true events and her own family history, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff tells a sweeping story of missing husbands, buried secrets, and the women who come together to reclaim their power “You want to place an ad for your missing husband?”   New York, 1919. ...

A dangerous mission is underway in Occupied Rome, right under the noses of the Gestapo. The acclaimed wartime thriller from the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of My Father's House. May 1944. Rome is still ruled by the Gestapo, but the Allies are closing in. As tensions rise...

A lifetime of regret. One chance to be reunited. Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine. When young Rosemary’s mother dies in a tragic accident, she thinks life can’t get any worse. Grieving, penniless and alone, Rosemary’s world is...

From the author of Saint X, a stunning novel about the fate of two children sent to the English countryside to escape the onset of World War II and the aftermath of the decisions they made there. Evelyn Lieberman has always been good at carrying her grief while carrying on. A widow in a Florida...

Frühling 1940: Nur wenige Tage nach seinem Amtsantritt steht der britische Premierminister Winston Churchill vor einer der schwersten Entscheidungen seines Lebens: Soll er sich Hitler-Deutschland um des Friedens willen annähern oder sein Land in den Krieg führen? Innerhalb von nur 25 Tagen muss er handeln und gleichzeitig den König und das britische Volk auf seine Seite bringen.

In this poignant novel set against the backdrop of Hitler’s rise to power, two sisters find themselves on opposite sides of the war, testing the strength of familial bonds, the power of sacrifice, and the limits of forgiveness. Gerde is 13 when Hitler takes office; Ilse, 11. While Gerda...

With a mystery that keeps readers guessing until the last page, Washington and Leigh is a powerful and riveting ghost story spanning sixty years and the lives of two families, one white, one Black, who are inextricably bound to each other in more ways than one. In 1950s Mississippi, soon after...

From the author of the bestselling Daughters of the Occupation comes a novel based on real-life Russian female aviators and their history-making regiment whose night bombing missions helped defeat the invading German army during World War II. Marina Raskova, a divorced mother, is known as the...

Yorkshire, December 1941. Polly Hope and her friend Freddie Fairbank are looking forward to visiting Westerby Abbey—a vast, stone-dark manor on the Yorkshire moors—to see if it will be suitable to use in the war effort. With snow expected, the house is cold enough to freeze the bones but there will be plenty of space for soldiers. That is, if they can convince the family to give up their home...

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Can they also help Miss Olivia Gray solve a murder? London, 1920: Heiress Olivia Gray is bored out of her mind. After saving lives as an ambulance driver in the war, being trapped in her mother's palatial drawing room feels like a prison sentence she will never...

Over the course of a three-day funeral, a woman discovers new sides to her deceased father in this hilarious and heart-tugging masterwork from one of Korea's most fearless writers. So, Father died. Slammed his head into a telephone pole. A very serious man had seriously come to the end of a...

A compelling, deeply felt, and expertly researched story about the nature of evil and the very human price of fighting back against impossible odds. Fans of historical fictions will love this novel.”—Kristin Hannah From the New York Times bestselling author of Z and A Good Neighborhood, and...

One car. Two strangers. Thirteen hundred miles. What could go wrong? When Ash rolls into town with a backpack full of cash and a bullet wound, the last thing he's looking for is a connection. All he needs is a ride south, fast. Enter Sam: a young man struggling with his identity, freshly dumped...

The King is dead. One by one, heads of state fall—ritualistic, symbolic, and terrifyingly precise. The CIA sends in their best: Will and Thomas. They're partners in espionage and lovers in a world where one wrong move means a bullet—or worse. Their orders? Hunt the killers. Keep it quiet...