{"title":"Fiction--Historical--20th Century--World War I","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-sun-also-rises-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition","title":"The Sun Also Rises: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eHemingway's classic novel of post-war disillusionment--the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation--now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson and a new introduction by Amor Towles, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRules of Civility\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the early 1920s in Paris, and Jake, a wounded World War I veteran working as a journalist, is hopelessly in love with charismatic British socialite Lady Brett Ashley. Brett, however, settles for no one: an independent, liberated divorcée, all she wants out of life is a good time. When Jake, Brett, and a crew of their fellow expatriate friends travel to Spain to watch the bullfights, both passions and tensions rise. Amid the flash and revelry of the fiesta, each of the men vies to make Brett his own, until Brett's flirtation with a confident young bullfighter ignites jealousies that set their group alight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn indelible portrait of what Gertrude Stein called the Lost Generation--the jaded, decadent youth who gave up trying to make sense of a senseless world in the disaffected postwar era--\u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises, \u003c\/i\u003e Ernest Hemingway's beloved first novel, is a masterpiece of modernist literature and one of the finest examples of the distinctly spare prose that would become his legacy to American letters.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0143136771\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780143136774\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hemingway, Ernest, Towles, Amor, Johnson, R. Kikuo\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 2022)","offer_id":45657531809989,"sku":"9780143136774","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780143136774.jpg?v=1768892353"},{"product_id":"zorba-the-greek","title":"Zorba the Greek","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning new translation of the classic book--and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film--brings the clarity and beauty of Kazantzakis's language and story alive.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1946, \u003ci\u003eZorba the Greek\u003c\/i\u003e, is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lover of life, the unnamed narrator who he accompanies to Crete to work in a lignite mine, and the men and women of the town where they settle. On the other hand it is the story of God and man, The Devil and the Saints; the struggle of men to find their souls and purpose in life and it is about love, courage and faith. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZorba has been acclaimed as one of the truly memorable creations of literature--a character created on a huge scale in the tradition of Falstaff and Sancho Panza. His years have not dimmed the gusto and amazement with which he responds to all life offers him, whether he is working in the mine, confronting mad monks in a mountain monastery, embellishing the tales of his life or making love to avoid sin. Zorba's life is rich with all the joys and sorrows that living brings and his example awakens in the narrator an understanding of the true meaning of humanity. This is one of the greatest life-affirming novels of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart of the modern literary canon, \u003ci\u003eZorba the Greek\u003c\/i\u003e, has achieved widespread international acclaim and recognition. This new edition translated, directly from Kazantzakis's Greek original, is a more faithful rendition of his original language, ideas, and story, and presents Zorba as the author meant him to be.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1476782814\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781476782812\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Kazantzakis, Nikos, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Dec 2014)","offer_id":45657912639685,"sku":"9781476782812","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781476782812.jpg?v=1768895803"},{"product_id":"the-shopkeeper-of-alsace","title":"The Shopkeeper of Alsace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne unstoppable woman. Two World Wars. Based on a True Story.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen WWII comes for her family, Sarah thinks she's ready. She's had training, after all, coming of age in Poland during World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1920, Sarah leaves behind the ruins of Poland for France, full of youthful hope and ambition. Jewish immigrants are welcome, and soon, she's built the Perfect French Life. In the postcard-pretty Alsatian town of Colmar, she runs a thriving clothing store, gaining a reputation as a stylish and savvy businesswoman. She has three adorable children, a gorgeous husband, and a close extended family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah's legendary sixth sense for trouble grows through the 1930s, as Germany gathers strength under a frightening, new nationalist party. Everyone around her insists that there won't be another war, and if there is, France will win. But Sarah calls upon her lessons learned from World War I, and begins to plan for the worst. Still, no instinct can fully prepare her for the next global conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Great War in Poland to the long-contested borders of Alsace to the remote refuge Sarah finds in the Cévennes mountains, The Shopkeeper of Alsace is an uplifting tale of family, love, resilience, and one unstoppable woman. Perfect for fans of We Were the Lucky Ones, The Nightingale, and The Alice Network, this dramatic debut brings to life a little-known corner of wartime history-and an inspiring real-life heroine you'll cheer for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1960373765\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781960373762\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Knoy, Laura, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Nov 2025)","offer_id":45658017136837,"sku":"9781960373762","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781960373762.jpg?v=1768897206"},{"product_id":"the-good-soldier-svejk-and-his-fortunes-in-the-world-war-translated-by-cecil-parrott-with-original-illustrations-by-josef-lada","title":"The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Translated by Cecil Parrott. with Original Illustrations by Josef Lada.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiscover \"perhaps the funniest novel ever written\" (\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e), now beautifully reissued\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The classic comic novel of the First World War.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e - \"A literary masterpiece.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the greatest works of 20th century literature.\" --\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaroslav Hasek's \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, \"one of the great characters of 20th century literature\" (\u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he fakes illnesses, is captured by his own men, and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines, always with a bizarre--and often hilarious--anecdote at the ready. Predating countercultural American classics like \u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e by a generation, \u003cem\u003eThe Good Soldier Svejk\u003c\/em\u003e was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0062835440\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780062835444\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hasek, Jaroslav, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2018)","offer_id":45658070646981,"sku":"9780062835444","price":20.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780062835444.jpg?v=1768897630"},{"product_id":"the-spoon-stealer","title":"The Spoon Stealer","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn into a basket of clean sheets--ruining a perfectly good load of laundry--Emmeline never quite fit in on her family's rural Nova Scotian farm. After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief, toxicity, and mental illness that Emmeline felt their weight smothering her. And so, she fled across the Atlantic and built her life in England. Now she is retired and living in a small coastal town with her best friend, Vera, an excellent conversationalist. Vera is also a small white dog, and so Emmeline is making an effort to talk to more humans. When she joins a memoir-writing course at the library, her classmates don't know what to make of her. Funny, loud, and with a riveting memoir, she charms the lot. As her past unfolds for her audience, friendships form, a bonus in a rather lonely life. She even shares with them her third-biggest secret: she has liberated hundreds of spoons over her lifetime--from the local library, Cary Grant, Winston Churchill. She is a compulsive spoon stealer. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Emmeline unexpectedly inherits the farm she grew up on, she knows she needs to leave her new friends and go see the farm and what remains of her family one last time. She arrives like a tornado in their lives, an off-kilter Mary Poppins bossing everyone around and getting quite a lot wrong. But with her generosity and hard-earned wisdom, she gets an awful lot right too. A pinball ricocheting between people, offending and inspiring in equal measure, Emmeline, in her final years, believes that a spoonful--perhaps several spoonfuls--of kindness can set to rights the family so broken by loss and secrecy. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spoon Stealer\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic Crewe book: full of humour, family secrets, women's friendship, lovable animals, and immense heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1771088818\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781771088817\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Crewe, Lesley, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vagrant Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagrant Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2020)","offer_id":45659213234373,"sku":"9781771088817","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781771088817.jpg?v=1768907060"},{"product_id":"mrs-dalloway-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition","title":"Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWeather\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDept. of Speculation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.\" It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. In a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's intentions, and includes a catalog of emendations, an illuminating introduction and endnotes by the distinguished feminist critic Elaine Showalter, and a map of Mrs. Dalloway's London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0143136135\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780143136132\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Woolf, Virginia, McNichol, Stella, Offill, Jenny\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 2021)","offer_id":45659307770053,"sku":"9780143136132","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780143136132.jpg?v=1768908123"},{"product_id":"the-orphan-collector-a-heroic-novel-of-survival-during-the-1918-influenza-pandemic","title":"The Orphan Collector: A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstant New York Times Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the internationally bestselling author of What She Left Behind comes \u003ci\u003ea gripping and powerful tale of upheaval--a heartbreaking saga of resilience and hope perfect for fans of Beatriz Williams and Kristin Hannah--set in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak--the deadly pandemic that went on to infect one-third of the world's population...\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Readers will not be able to help making comparisons to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how little has changed since 1918. Wiseman has written a touching tale of loss, survival, and perseverance with some light fantastical elements.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An immersive historical tale with chilling twists and turns. Beautifully told and richly imagined.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Stephanie Dray, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerica's First Daughter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness. When food runs out in the cramped tenement she calls home, Pia must venture alone into the quarantined city in search of supplies, leaving her baby brothers behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bernice Groves has become lost in grief and bitterness since her baby died from the Spanish flu. Watching Pia leave her brothers alone, Bernice makes a shocking, life-altering decision. It becomes her sinister mission to tear families apart when they're at their most vulnerable, planning to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are \"true Americans.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Waking in a makeshift hospital days after collapsing in the street, Pia is frantic to return home. Instead, she is taken to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum - the first step in a long and arduous journey. As Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost in the months and years that follow, Pia must confront her own shame and fear, risking everything to see justice - and love - triumph at last. Powerful, harrowing, and ultimately exultant, \u003ci\u003eThe Orphan Collector \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of love, resilience, and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wiseman's writing is superb, and her descriptions of life during the Spanish Flu epidemic are chilling. Well-researched and impossible to put down, this is an emotional tug-of-war played out brilliantly on the pages and in readers' hearts.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Historical Novels Review, \u003c\/i\u003eEDITOR'S CHOICE \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wiseman's depiction of the horrifying spread of the Spanish flu is eerily reminiscent of the present day and resonates with realistic depictions of suffering, particularly among the poorer immigrant population.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(Boxed Review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Reading the novel in the time of COVID-19 adds an even greater resonance, and horror, to the description of the fatal spread of that 1918 flu.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An emotional roller coaster...I felt Pia's strength, courage, guilt, and grief come through the pages clear as day.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eThe Seattle Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1496715861\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781496715869\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Wiseman, Ellen Marie, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kensington Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2020)","offer_id":45659433730245,"sku":"9781496715869","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781496715869.jpg?v=1768909313"},{"product_id":"a-farewell-to-arms-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition","title":"A Farewell to Arms: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eHemingway's beloved novel of doomed love during wartime, now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms \u003c\/i\u003eis one of Ernest Hemingway's most popular books, a masterpiece that is not only among the greatest novels to come out of World War I but also one of the most profoundly moving in the American canon. Based on Hemingway's own experience volunteering with the Red Cross in Italy during World War I, and written when he was only thirty, it tells the story of Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver, and Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. For Frederic, Catherine's kindness and beauty shore him up against the carnage of battle; for Catherine, Frederic's strength and devotion are a lifeboat in the sea of grief over her first love. Through injury, surgery, and the psychic fallout of war, they maintain an overwhelming desire to be together, even as forces conspire to keep them apart. Hemingway captures the intensity of both love and war with the taut immediacy and spare, understated eloquence that are his hallmarks, reminding us why this novel--his first bestseller--endures as a favorite, and why the Nobel laureate ranks among our most treasured writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0143138839\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780143138839\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hemingway, Ernest, Verghese, Abraham, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2025)","offer_id":45659936063685,"sku":"9780143138839","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780143138839.jpg?v=1768915807"},{"product_id":"the-lake-house","title":"The Lake House","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHomecoming\u003c\/i\u003e comes a \"moody, suspenseful page-turner\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Book Pick) filled with mystery and spellbinding secrets.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One midsummer's eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. He is never found, and the family is torn apart, the house abandoned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Decades later, Alice is living in London, having enjoyed a long successful career as a novelist. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather's house in Cornwall. While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old Edevane estate--now crumbling and covered with vines. Her curiosity is sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone...yet more present than ever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A lush, atmospheric tale of intertwined destinies from a masterful storyteller, \u003ci\u003eThe Lake House\u003c\/i\u003e is an enthralling, thoroughly satisfying read.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1451649355\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781451649352\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Morton, Kate, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jun 2016)","offer_id":45659991507141,"sku":"9781451649352","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781451649352.jpg?v=1768916549"},{"product_id":"a-parchment-of-leaves","title":"A Parchment of Leaves","description":"In 1900s Kentucky, Saul Sullivan leaves his bride behind to seek work, and his brother steps in, with violent consequences.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1949467252\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781949467253\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: House, Silas, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Blair\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Blair","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 2020)","offer_id":45660020539589,"sku":"9781949467253","price":17.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781949467253.jpg?v=1768916755"},{"product_id":"the-given-day","title":"The Given Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive.\" - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis Lehane, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLive by Night\u003c\/em\u003e--now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck--offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families--one black, one white--swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0062190946\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780062190949\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Lehane, Dennis\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2012)","offer_id":45936756031685,"sku":"9780062190949","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780062190949.jpg?v=1772850477"},{"product_id":"last-christmas-in-paris-a-novel-of-world-war-i","title":"Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unforgettably romantic historical romance that spans four Christmases (1914-1918), Last Christmas in Paris explores the ruins of war, the strength of love, and the enduring hope of the Christmas season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugust 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes--as everyone does--that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as history tells us, it all happened so differently...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict--but how?--and as Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father's newspaper business. Through their correspondence in this touching epistolary novel, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears--and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love flourish amid the horror of the First World War, or will fate intervene?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristmas 1968. With failing health, Thomas returns to Paris--a cherished packet of letters in hand--determined to lay to rest the ghosts of his past in the novel's moving dual timeline. But one final letter is waiting for him...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA touching holiday read \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for fans of uplifting winter romances\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA delightful Christmas gift\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0062562681\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780062562685\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Gaynor, Hazel, Webb, Heather\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2017)","offer_id":45936788603077,"sku":"9780062562685","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780062562685.jpg?v=1772850654"},{"product_id":"once-an-eagle","title":"Once an Eagle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe phenomenal #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller that captured the imagination of a generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A remarkable novel... utterly engrossing.... It is an astute study of the mind and character of a good general and a good man. And it is a brilliant inside view of the life of a career officer in peace and war.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Simply the best work of fiction on leadership in print.\" --General Martin E. Dempsey, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRequired reading for West Point and Marine Corps cadets, \u003ci\u003eOnce An Eagle\u003c\/i\u003e is a generational saga and the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power. Beginning in the French countryside during the Great War, the conflict between these lifetime adversaries solidifies in the isolated garrison life marking peacetime, intensifies in the deadly Pacific jungles of World War II, and reaches its treacherous conclusion in the last major battleground of the Cold War--Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow with a new foreword by acclaimed historian Carlo D'Este, here is an unforgettable story of a man who embodies the best in our nation--and in us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0062221620\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780062221629\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Myrer, Anton\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2013)","offer_id":45936792993989,"sku":"9780062221629","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780062221629.jpg?v=1772850675"},{"product_id":"the-alice-network","title":"The Alice Network","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u0026amp; USA TODAY BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of NPR's Best Books of the Year!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReese Witherspoon Book Club Summer Reading Pick!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Girly Book Club Book of the Year!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Parade, Library Journal, Goodreads, Liz and Lisa, and BookBub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an enthralling new dual timeline historical fiction novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women--a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947--are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e1947.\u003c\/i\u003e In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her \"little problem\" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to solve the historical mystery of what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e1915\u003c\/i\u003e. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, this young female spy is trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the \"Queen of Spies\", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy's nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Both funny and heartbreaking, this epic journey of two courageous women is an unforgettable tale of little-known wartime glory and sacrifice. Quinn knocks it out of the park with this spectacular book!\"--Stephanie Dray, New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica's First Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0062654195\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780062654199\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Quinn, Kate\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jun 2017)","offer_id":45936845619397,"sku":"9780062654199","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mass Market Paperbacks (Feb 2022)","offer_id":45936845652165,"sku":"9780063215245","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780062654199.jpg?v=1772850924"},{"product_id":"canary-girls","title":"Canary Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosie the Riveter meets \u003ci\u003eA League of Their Own in New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the \"munitionettes\" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the football pitch.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly in the Great War, as men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist, a new front opened at home. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. \"Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun,\" the recruitment posters beckoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThousands of women--cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives--answered their nation's call. These \"munitionettes\" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives with little protective gear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong them is nineteen-year-old former housemaid April Tipton. Impressed by her friend Marjorie's descriptions of higher wages, plentiful meals, and comfortable lodgings, she takes a job at Thornshire Arsenal near London, filling shells in the Danger Building--difficult, dangerous, and absolutely essential work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoining them is Lucy Dempsey, wife of Daniel Dempsey, Olympic gold medalist and star forward of Tottenham Hotspur. With Daniel away serving in the Footballers' Battalion, Lucy resolves to do her bit to hasten the end of the war. When her coworkers learn she is a footballer's wife, they invite her to join the arsenal ladies' football club, the Thornshire Canaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Canaries soon acquire an unexpected fan in the boss's wife, Helen Purcell, who is deeply troubled by reports that Danger Building workers suffer from serious, unexplained illnesses. One common symptom, the lurid yellow hue of their skin, earns them the nickname \"canary girls.\" Suspecting a connection between the canary girls' maladies and the chemicals they handle, Helen joins the arsenal administration as their staunchest, though often unappreciated, advocate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe football pitch is the one place where class distinctions and fears for their men fall away. As the war grinds on and tragedy takes its toll, the Canary Girls persist despite the dangers, proud to serve, determined to outlive the war and rejoice in victory and peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unforgettable work of WWI historical fiction explores the bonds of women on the British home front and reveals: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Canary Girls: \u003c\/b\u003e The story of the brave \"munitionettes\" who suffered from TNT poisoning, their skin turning a lurid yellow as they built the bombs essential to the war effort.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWomen's Football: \u003c\/b\u003e How the Thornshire Canaries football club offers a welcome escape, where class distinctions fall away and camaraderie is forged on the pitch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFriendship and Courage: \u003c\/b\u003e The powerful connections between former housemaid April Tipton, footballer's wife Lucy Dempsey, and the boss's wife, Helen Purcell, as they navigate love, loss, and war.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBased on Real History: \u003c\/b\u003e A vivid, meticulously researched portrayal of the Great War, inspired by the true stories of women who risked everything for their country.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0063080753\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780063080751\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Chiaverini, Jennifer\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2024)","offer_id":45937193451717,"sku":"9780063080751","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780063080751.jpg?v=1772856280"},{"product_id":"the-phoenix-crown","title":"The Phoenix Crown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes in this compelling historical fiction: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a web of secrets and lies reaching further than anyone could have imagined . . . until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together as unlikely allies in one last desperate quest for justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0063304732\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780063304734\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Quinn, Kate, Chang, Janie\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Feb 2024)","offer_id":45937204592837,"sku":"9780063304734","price":18.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780063304734.jpg?v=1772856333"},{"product_id":"precipice","title":"Precipice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Robert Harris is, simply put, masterful.\"--Karin Slaughter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the Great War from the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAct of Oblivion, Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConclave.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley--aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless--is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as \"The Coterie.\" She's also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer with Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a leak of top-secret documents. Suddenly, what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that could topple the British government--and will alter the course of political history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unrivaled master of seamlessly weaving fact and fiction, \u003cem\u003ePrecipice\u003c\/em\u003e is another electrifying thriller from the brilliant imagination of Robert Harris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0063248069\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780063248069\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Harris, Robert\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2025)","offer_id":45937275764933,"sku":"9780063248069","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780063248069.jpg?v=1772856770"},{"product_id":"the-whistling-season","title":"The Whistling Season","description":"\"Can't cook but doesn't bite.\" So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an \"A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition\" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch--a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhen the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the \"several kinds of education\"--none of them of the textbook variety--Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Flawless...\u003cem\u003eThe Whistling Season\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves, it reaches for joy.\"--\u003cem\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0156031647\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780156031646\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Doig, Ivan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2007)","offer_id":45937596530885,"sku":"9780156031646","price":18.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780156031646.jpg?v=1772880988"},{"product_id":"the-warm-hands-of-ghosts","title":"The Warm Hands of Ghosts","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bear and the Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A wonderful clash of fire and ice--a book you won't want to let go of.\"--Diana Gabaldon, author of \u003ci\u003eOutlander\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Spectacular--a tour de force, wonderful and deep and haunting.\"--Naomi Novik, author of \u003ci\u003eA Deadly Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eBOOKPAGE\u003c\/i\u003e'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanuary 1918. \u003c\/i\u003eLaura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie's death in combat, along with his personal effects--but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something--or someone--else? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eNovember 1917. \u003c\/i\u003eFreddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As shells rain down on Flanders and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura's and Freddie's deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging--or better left behind entirely.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593128273\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593128275\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Arden, Katherine\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Random House Worlds\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House Worlds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 2025)","offer_id":46079913001157,"sku":"9780593128275","price":18.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593128275.jpg?v=1776033039"},{"product_id":"the-bookbinder","title":"The Bookbinder","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Williams spins an immersive and compelling tale, sweeping us back to the Oxford she painted so expertly in \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--Paula McLain, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrow boat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmbitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them--but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street, where the female students of Oxford's Somerville College have a whole library at their fingertips. Maude, meanwhile, wants nothing more than what she has: to spend her days folding the pages of books in the company of the other bindery girls. She is extraordinary but vulnerable, and Peggy feels compelled to watch over her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen refugees arrive from the war-torn cities of Belgium, sending ripples through the Oxford community and the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can educate herself and use her intellect, not just her hands. But as war and illness reshape her world, her love for a Belgian soldier--and the responsibility that comes with it--threaten to hold her back.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bookbinder \u003c\/i\u003eis a story about knowledge--who creates it, who can access it, and what truths get lost in the process. Much as she did in the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words, \u003c\/i\u003e Pip Williams thoughtfully explores another rarely seen slice of history through women's eyes.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593600460\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593600467\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Williams, Pip\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2024)","offer_id":46079955435717,"sku":"9780593600467","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593600467.jpg?v=1776033242"},{"product_id":"miss-morgans-book-brigade","title":"Miss Morgan's Book Brigade","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles and based on the true story of Jessie Carson--the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France--this is \"a moving tale of sacrifice, heroism, and inspired storytelling immersed in the power of books to change our lives\" (Patti Callahan Henry, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild destroyed French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen--children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1987: When NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her obsessive research, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York's famed library, but she has no idea their paths will converge in surprising ways across time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on the extraordinary little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre medal for courage under fire, \u003ci\u003eMiss Morgan's Book Brigade \u003c\/i\u003eis a \"rich, glorious, life-affirming tribute to literature and female solidarity. Simply unforgettable\" (Kate Thompson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wartime Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1668008998\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781668008997\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Charles, Janet Skeslien\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 2025)","offer_id":46079986925765,"sku":"9781668008997","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781668008997.jpg?v=1776033428"},{"product_id":"the-remembered-soldier","title":"The Remembered Soldier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003e100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL \u003c\/i\u003e10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025--\u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/i\u003e 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR--CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOKS OF 2025 --\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The Best Historical Fiction\"--2026 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Superb . . . In its dangerous admixture of truth and reassembled reality, 'The Remembered Soldier' develops an unforgettable picture of marital love.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Sam Sacks in \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination: Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One day a woman, Julienne, appears and recognizes Noon as her husband, the photographer Amand Coppens, and takes him home against medical advice. But their miraculous reunion doesn't turn out the way that Julienne wants her envious friends to believe. Only gradually do the two grow close, and Amand's biography is pieced together on the basis of Julienne's stories about him. But how can he be certain that she's telling the truth? In \u003cem\u003eThe Remembered Soldier\u003c\/em\u003e, Anjet Daanje immerses us in the psyche of a war-traumatized man who has lost his identity. When Amand comes to doubt Julienne's word, the reader is caught up in a riveting spiral of confusion that only the greatest of literature can achieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReading group guide to \u003cem\u003eThe Remembered Soldier\u003c\/em\u003e is available for download free of charge at newvesselpress.com.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1954404328\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781954404328\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Daanje, Anjet, McKay, David\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Vessel Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New Vessel Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2025)","offer_id":46080237863109,"sku":"9781954404328","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781954404328.jpg?v=1776035595"},{"product_id":"the-house-at-riverton","title":"The House at Riverton","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of #1 international bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Garden \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eHomecoming \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecomes a gorgeous novel set in England between World War I and World War II. Perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e, it is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe novel is full of secrets--some revealed, others hidden forever, reminiscent of the romantic suspense of Daphne du Maurier. It is also a meditation on memory, the devastation of war and a beautifully rendered window into a fascinating time in history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKate Morton's first novel, originally published to critical acclaim in Australia, and quickly becoming a #1 bestseller in England, \u003ci\u003eThe House at Riverton\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, page-turning novel of suspense and passion, with characters--and an ending--readers won't soon forget.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1416550534\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781416550532\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Morton, Kate\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2009)","offer_id":46080264765637,"sku":"9781416550532","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781416550532.jpg?v=1776035749"},{"product_id":"white-mulberry","title":"White Mulberry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A beautiful and deeply researched novel...If you loved \u003ci\u003ePachinko\u003c\/i\u003e, you'll love \u003ci\u003eWhite Mulberry\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --Lisa See, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Sea Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by the life of Easton's grandmother, \u003ci\u003eWhite Mulberry\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and must reclaim her true identity to provide a future for her family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1928, Japan-occupied Korea. Eleven-year-old Miyoung has dreams too big for her tiny farming village near Pyongyang: to become a teacher, to avoid an arranged marriage, to write her own future. When she is offered the chance to live with her older sister in Japan and continue her education, she is elated, even though it means leaving her sick mother--and her very name--behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Kyoto, anti-Korean sentiment is rising every day, and Miyoung quickly realizes she must pass as Japanese if she expects to survive. Her Japanese name, Miyoko, helps her find a new calling as a nurse, but as the years go by, she fears that her true self is slipping away. She seeks solace in a Korean church group and, within it, finds something she never expected: a romance with an activist that reignites her sense of purpose and gives her a cherished son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs war looms on a new front and Miyoung feels the constraints of her adopted home tighten, she is faced with a choice that will change her life--and the lives of those she loves--forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1662519699\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781662519697\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Easton, Rosa Kwon\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Lake Union Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lake Union Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Dec 2024)","offer_id":46080510918853,"sku":"9781662519697","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781662519697.jpg?v=1776037986"},{"product_id":"the-great-forgotten","title":"The Great Forgotten","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A must read for lovers of historical fiction and readers all.\" --Award-winning \u003ci\u003eNYT \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Charles Todd \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Murphy gracefully memorializes this tragedy . . .\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne War. Two Loves. A Lifetime to Remember. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuly 4, 1918, Nashville, Tennessee.\u003c\/b\u003e Even as the war in Germany drones on, patriotism swells at home. There are celebrations, music, and dancing. But for five men--one train engineer, one porter, one salesman, one farmer, and one thief--the world will soon take a terrible and tragic turn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSummer, 1988.\u003c\/b\u003e Ginny Campbell is a young woman unsure of her marriage and her future. Moving into a new house, she finds an old, abandoned trunk filled with carefully wrapped memorabilia, photos, and a woman's name. Intrigued, she sets out to uncover the mystery of the steamer trunk, leading her on a sweeping journey of love and loss that stretches back to 1918. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by a true event.\u003c\/b\u003e The great train wreck near Nashville on July 9, 1918, when two passenger trains collided due to human error, was a horrific disaster that killed over 100 people and injured hundreds more.\u003ci\u003e The Great Forgotten\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping tale of five men whose lives were intertwined that fateful day and the ripple effect of this little-known American tragedy on the woman who knew them all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers who enjoy \u003ci\u003eThe Keeper of Happy Endings\u003c\/i\u003e by Barbara Davis, \u003ci\u003eThe Things We Cannot Say\u003c\/i\u003e by Kelly Rimmer, and \u003ci\u003eAll the Broken Places \u003c\/i\u003eby John Boyne.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 074431190X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780744311907\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Murphy, K. L.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Camcat Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Camcat Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Jan 2026)","offer_id":46080768213189,"sku":"9780744311907","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780744311907.jpg?v=1776040168"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-clouds","title":"Beyond the Clouds","description":"\u003cb\u003eThey lost each other once before; now the clouds of war may give them a second chance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs teenagers, Delia Byrne and Finn Delaney fell in love while flying kites and dreaming of a future together--until betrayal tore them apart. Now, as America enters World War I, Delia works for peace as a paralegal and pacifist. Her values forbid her from supporting the war effort, but she volunteers for a relief organization trying to save millions of lives in famine-stricken Belgium. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturning to America as a decorated war hero, Finn is eager to get back to the front but is assigned to use his fame to raise funds instead. To his surprise, this mission will bring him face-to-face with Delia, the only woman he ever loved and once hoped to marry. As their shared mission draws them together, old sparks of romance begin to stir--until duty sends them behind enemy lines in occupied Belgium. Will the greatest danger be the conflict raging around them--or the possibility of falling in love again? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Elizabeth Camden \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A sweeping saga of a historical romance, enhanced by complex characters and riveting period detail.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--MIMI MATTHEWS, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author on \u003ci\u003eWritten on the Wind\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"History, mystery, and romance set against the backdrop of New York City at night--a must read!\"\u003c\/b\u003e--GABRIELLE MEYER, bestselling author on \u003ci\u003eWhile the City Sleeps \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Camden's compelling historical romance of second chances, sacrifice, and redemption is set against the backdrop of World War I in Belgium and will captivate readers with its rich historical detail and deeply woven characters.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0764241737\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780764241734\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Camden, Elizabeth\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bethany House Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bethany House Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 2026)","offer_id":46081044447429,"sku":"9780764241734","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780764241734.jpg?v=1776042709"},{"product_id":"the-forgotten-garden","title":"The Forgotten Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHomecoming\u003c\/i\u003e comes a novel that takes readers on an unforgettable journey through generations and across continents as two women try to uncover their family's secret past.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book--a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-fi rst birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, \"Nell\" sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell's death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled. A spellbinding tale of mystery and self-discovery, \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Garden \u003c\/i\u003ewill take hold of your imagination and never let go.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1416550550\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781416550556\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Morton, Kate\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Feb 2010)","offer_id":46081082622149,"sku":"9781416550556","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781416550556.jpg?v=1776042910"},{"product_id":"lost-roses","title":"Lost Roses","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - The million-copy bestseller \u003ci\u003eLilac Girls \u003c\/i\u003eintroduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now \u003ci\u003eLost Roses\u003c\/i\u003e, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Not only a brilliant historical tale, but a love song to all the ways our friendships carry us through the worst of times.\"\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eLisa Wingate, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e#1\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBefore We Were Yours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003emany New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia: the church with the interior covered in jeweled mosaics, the Rembrandts at the tsar's Winter Palace, the famous ballet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia's imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortune-teller's daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the other side of the Atlantic, Eliza is doing her part to help the White Russian families find safety as they escape the revolution. But when Sofya's letters suddenly stop coming, she fears the worst for her best friend. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the turbulent streets of St. Petersburg and aristocratic countryside estates to the avenues of Paris where a society of fallen Russian émigrés live to the mansions of Long Island, the lives of Eliza, Sofya, and Varinka will intersect in profound ways. In her newest powerful tale told through female-driven perspectives, Martha Hall Kelly celebrates the unbreakable bonds of women's friendship, especially during the darkest days of history.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1524796395\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781524796396\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Kelly, Martha Hall\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2020)","offer_id":46081299185861,"sku":"9781524796396","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781524796396.jpg?v=1776044813"},{"product_id":"the-mystery-of-mrs-christie","title":"The Mystery of Mrs. Christie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE INSTANT \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e AND \u003cem\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/em\u003e BESTSELLER!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A stunning story... The ending is ingenious, and it's possible that Benedict has brought to life the most plausible explanation for why Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Only Woman in the Room\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car--strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe puzzle of those missing eleven days has persisted. With her trademark historical fiction exploration into the shadows of the past, acclaimed author Marie Benedict brings us into the world of Agatha Christie, imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of such murky historical mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is real, and what is mystery? What role did her unfaithful husband play, and what was he not telling investigators?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgatha Christie novels have withstood the test of time, due in no small part to Christie's masterful storytelling and clever mind that may never be matched, but Agatha Christie's untold history offers perhaps her greatest mystery of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFans of \u003cem\u003eThe Secrets We Kept\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lions of Fifth Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Alice Network\u003c\/em\u003e will enjoy this riveting saga of literary history, suspense, and love gone wrong.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOther Bestselling Historical Fiction from Marie Benedict: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLady Clementine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Only Woman in the Room\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarnegie's Maid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Other Einstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1728234301\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781728234304\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Benedict, Marie\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Sourcebooks Landmark\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sourcebooks Landmark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2021)","offer_id":46081420165317,"sku":"9781728234304","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781728234304.jpg?v=1776046001"},{"product_id":"at-night-all-blood-is-black","title":"At Night All Blood Is Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e*ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize for fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Astonishingly good.\" \u003cb\u003e--Lily Meyer, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"So incantatory and visceral I don't think I'll ever forget it.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAli Smith, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e's 11 best books of the fall One of \u003ci\u003eThe A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e's fifteen best books of 2020 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest book of the year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected by students across France to win the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, David Diop's English-language, historical fiction debut \u003ci\u003eAt Night All Blood is Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"powerful, hypnotic, and dark novel\" (\u003ci\u003eLivres Hebdo\u003c\/i\u003e) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called \u003ci\u003e\"Chocolat\"\u003c\/i\u003e soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German's severed hand. At first his comrades look at Alfa's deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn't a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty, day-to-day, journalistic horror of life in the trenches, David Diop's \u003ci\u003eAt Night All Blood is Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling tale of a man's descent into madness.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 125080020X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781250800206\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Diop, David, Moschovakis, Anna\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2021)","offer_id":46081450639557,"sku":"9781250800206","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781250800206.jpg?v=1776046226"},{"product_id":"the-pull-of-the-stars","title":"The Pull of the Stars","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in \"Donoghue's best novel since \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders--Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Pull of the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 031649903X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780316499033\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Donoghue, Emma\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 2021)","offer_id":46081495761093,"sku":"9780316499033","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780316499033.jpg?v=1776046543"},{"product_id":"the-fortnight-in-september","title":"The Fortnight in September","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis charming, timeless classic about a family of five setting out on their annual seaside vacation is \"the most uplifting, life-affirming novel I can think of...the beautiful dignity to be found in everyday living has rarely been captured more delicately\" (Kazuo Ishiguro).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet the Stevens family, as they prepare to embark on their yearly holiday to the coast of England. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens first made the trip to Bognor Regis on their honeymoon, and the tradition has continued ever since. They stay in the same guest house and follow the same carefully honed schedule--now accompanied by their three children, twenty-year-old Mary, seventeen-year-old Dick, and little brother Ernie. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArriving in Bognor they head to Seaview, the guesthouse where they stay every year. It's a bit shabbier than it once was--the landlord has died and his wife is struggling as the number of guests dwindles every year. But the family finds bliss in booking a slightly bigger cabana, with a balcony, and in their rediscovery of the familiar places they visit every year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMr. Stevens goes on his annual walk across the downs, reflecting on his life, his worries and disappointments, and returns refreshed. Mrs. Stevens treasures an hour spent sitting alone with her medicinal glass of port. Mary has her first small taste of romance. And Dick pulls himself out of the malaise he's sunk into since graduation, resolving to work towards a new career. The Stevenses savor every moment of their holiday, aware that things may not be the same next year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelightfully nostalgic and soothing, \u003ci\u003eThe Fortnight in September\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary novel about ordinary people enjoying life's simple pleasures.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1982184787\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781982184780\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Sherriff, R. C.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2021)","offer_id":46081505624261,"sku":"9781982184780","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781982184780.jpg?v=1776046632"},{"product_id":"the-winter-soldier","title":"The Winter Soldier","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Tuner \u003c\/i\u003eis \"a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance\" (Anthony Doerr, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Winter Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success.\" --Anthony Marra, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0316477591\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780316477598\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Mason, Daniel\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2019)","offer_id":46081515487429,"sku":"9780316477598","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780316477598.jpg?v=1776047151"},{"product_id":"the-memoirs-of-stockholm-sven","title":"The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this \"briskly entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \"transporting and wholly original\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time as a miner ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, and Sven flees even further, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a loyal dog, he builds a hut and lives alone, testing himself against the elements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The teachings of a Finnish fur trapper, along with encouraging letters from his family and a Scottish geologist who befriended him in the mining camp, get him through his first winter. Years into his routine isolation, the arrival of an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, sparking a chain of surprising events that will bring Sven into a family of fellow castoffs and determine the course of the rest of his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written with wry humor and in prose as breathtaking as the stark landscape it evokes, \u003ci\u003eThe Memoirs of Stockholm Sven\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the strength of our human bonds, reminding us that even in the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, we are not beyond the reach of love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 Indie Next Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Vermont Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0316592587\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780316592581\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Miller, Nathaniel Ian\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2022)","offer_id":46081556971717,"sku":"9780316592581","price":18.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780316592581.jpg?v=1776047245"},{"product_id":"mine-were-of-trouble-a-nationalist-account-of-the-spanish-civil-war","title":"Mine Were of Trouble: A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEscalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Military officers stage a coup against a democratically elected, Soviet-backed, government. The country is thrown into chaos as centuries-old tensions return to the forefront. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards choose sides and engage in the most devastating combat since the First World War. For loyalists to the Republic, the fight is seen as one for equality and their idea of progress. For the rebels, the struggle is a preemptive strike by tradition against an attempted communist takeover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThousands of foreigners, too, join the struggle. Most fight with the Soviet-sponsored International Brigades or other militias aligned with the loyalist \"Republicans\". Only a few side with the rebel \"Nationalists\". One of these rare volunteers for the Nationalists was Peter Kemp, a young British law student. Kemp, despite having little training or command of the Spanish language, was moved by the Nationalist struggle against international Communism. Using forged documents, he sneaked into Spain and joined a traditionalist militia, the Requetés, with which he saw intense fighting. Later, he volunteered to join the legendary and ruthless Spanish Foreign Legion, where he distinguished himself with heroism. Because of this bravery, he was one of the few foreign volunteers granted a private audience with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKemp published his story... one of the only English accounts of the war from the Nationalist perspective, after a prestigious military career with the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1777493889\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781777493882\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Kemp, Peter\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Interbooks\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Interbooks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Mar 2022)","offer_id":46081600127173,"sku":"9781777493882","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2022)","offer_id":46081600159941,"sku":"9781777493899","price":9.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781777493882.jpg?v=1776047514"},{"product_id":"the-moonlight-runner","title":"The Moonlight Runner","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\"An epic tale of feminine heroism, patriotism, and a touch of romance\u003c\/strong\u003e...\u003cstrong\u003eThis page-turner is a must for historical fiction fans\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The legendary Karen Robards brings her formidable talents to bear in \u003cem\u003eThe Moonlight Runner\u003c\/em\u003e, an epic tale of love and female heroism.\" -Pam Jenoff, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLast Twilight in Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the wake of the Great War, a young woman joins the Irish rebellion and risks everything for her country in this sweeping story of love, bravery and the relentless pursuit of freedom from \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Karen Robards.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIreland, 1918. In a world brutalized by the Great War and devastated by the Spanish flu, twenty-two-year-old Rynn Carmichael is suddenly pulled into the war of independence when Donal O'Reilly, the boy she has loved for most of her life, takes up gunrunning in support of the rebellion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaised in a small Irish village on the shores of Donegal Bay, Rynn is working as a nurse in a convalescent home for soldiers wounded in the Great War when she overhears a British officer gloating over the trap that has been set for Irish gunrunners bringing a boat full of smuggled arms ashore. Knowing that Donal must be involved, she rushes out at midnight to warn the incoming boat, only to find herself caught up in a terrifying and tragic series of events that take her from the glittering ballrooms of London to the narrow back alleys of Dublin as she and those she loves fight for their lives and their country.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0778305848\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780778305842\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Robards, Karen\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Park Row\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Park Row","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Mar 2026)","offer_id":46081691484357,"sku":"9780778305842","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780778305842.jpg?v=1776048490"},{"product_id":"the-sun-also-rises-the-authorized-edition","title":"The Sun Also Rises: The Authorized Edition","description":"Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.​A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. In his first great literary masterpiece, Hemingway portrays an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. \"The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.\" --The Wall Street Journal\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0743297334\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780743297332\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hemingway, Ernest\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2006)","offer_id":46081871839429,"sku":"9780743297332","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mass Market Paperback (Nov 2021)","offer_id":46081871872197,"sku":"9781982199524","price":7.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780743297332.jpg?v=1776050067"},{"product_id":"the-ghost-of-vimy-ridge","title":"The Ghost of Vimy Ridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel inspired by a true story. Thomas \"Tommy\" Holmes was a proud Canadian yearning for adventure outside of his hometown, Owen Sound. Influenced by his brother and father, Tommy lies about his age to enlist in the global conflict that ravaged Europe on four different war fronts. Instead of finding adventure in the realm of patriotism, he finds himself in a world of hell albeit Trench Warfare and incompetent leaders. Determined and supported out of love, Tommy overcomes unimaginable obstacles from Vimy Ridge to Passchendaele and becomes the youngest Canadian Victoria Cross recipient in history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story told from different perspectives, The Ghost of Vimy Ridge explores not only Tommy's journey through the trenches of Europe, but also Canada's tribulations over the course of five years and how The Great War deeply affected our nation. From the civil unrest of the suffragette movement to the insufferable psychological damage the brave men and women endured for the price of peace, and the addiction that has haunted used to this very day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a story written not just for those who value history, but also for those who get inspired to tell their own story. It is a piece of literature that not only connects to today's society and its tribulations, but also is an honest look at history and tells the stories history textbooks have ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1778289983\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781778289989\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Stokes, Sean\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Stokes Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Stokes Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Nov 2024)","offer_id":46099744751813,"sku":"9781778289989","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781778289989.jpg?v=1776644434"},{"product_id":"scythe-and-pen","title":"Scythe and Pen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemetrius Raske strikes a deal with the Devil to stop a monster stalking the city, but he may have unleashed another villain entirely...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Capital of the United League of Nations glitters like jewels on a dame's neck-a city of wicked splendor and possibility. The deals struck in the Senate are as ruthless as the ones struck in the city's criminal underbelly. No one knows this better than vampire politician Demetrius Raske, who walks both worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemetrius fights for a bill that will grant humans and vampires equal civil liberties. But many citizens don't share his sentiment, especially after the murders begin. Body after body, drained of blood, appear throughout the city, threatening the League's tenuous peace treaty between humans and vampires. If Demetrius's bill doesn't pass the Senate, his campaign for a united future will be crushed. Only one man has the ability to apprehend the bloodthirsty monster-a man known simply as the Devil. And rumor has it, he isn't a man at all. Together, they strike a deal to catch the murderer before Demetrius's bill fails-a disaster that would push the League to the brink of civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Demetrius's calculated moves don't go unnoticed. He catches the attention of Gabriella Rose, a journalist whose hunt for her next big headline pushes her right into the murderer's path, costing her everything she holds dear. Now something dark grows within Gabriella-a power her allies wish to control and her enemies want to exploit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only way Demetrius and Gabriella can save themselves-and the city they love-is to strike another deal with the Devil. But their villainous partner is playing his own game. And soon they will learn how the Devil earned his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1736741497\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781736741498\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hobbs, A. C.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Counterpoise Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Counterpoise Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 2024)","offer_id":46099766051013,"sku":"9781736741498","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781736741498.jpg?v=1776644573"},{"product_id":"children-of-the-wild","title":"Children of the Wild","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e comes a gorgeous, haunting love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEwer's Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and return with the technical knowledge to modernize his family's farm and bring them properly into the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Hatton, the minister's daughter and Roy's best friend since childhood, knows that both Roy and the town expect them to marry. But Samantha, a daring and ambitious young woman, hungers for more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove them on the mountain, tending to a lost herd of cattle, is silent Ennis Duke, the mysterious wild boy whose arrival in the valley will upend Ewer's Rock's understanding of itself and its place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a year, the lives of these three young people will be dramatically transformed. America has joined the Great War, and Roy and Ennis feel duty-bound to join the fight. In the crucible of conflict, thousands of miles from the familiarity of home, the two men forge a fierce bond. Meanwhile, back in Virginia, Samantha's love and courage endure unthinkable sacrifice in a corner of the world fractured by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the spare and exquisite prose and the profound insight that made \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e a landmark work of American fiction, Kevin Powers illuminates the savage, complex, and timeless bonds of loyalty, honor, and heroism. \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e captures what it means to be human in times of loss--and how, even in darkness, the light of friendship and love endures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0063488574\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780063488571\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Powers, Kevin\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harper\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Jun 2026)","offer_id":46099832668357,"sku":"9780063488571","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780063488571.jpg?v=1776645729"},{"product_id":"the-daughters-of-ireland","title":"The Daughters of Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously published in the United Kingdom as DAUGHTERS OF CASTLE DEVERILL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIreland. 1925. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe war is over. But life will never be the same...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Everything Santa Montefiore writes, she writes from the heart,\" says JOJO MOYES. See why in this unforgettable story of love, loss, and life, perfect for fans of \u003cem\u003eDOWNTON ABBEY\u003c\/em\u003e and KATE MORTON.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory -- to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKitty herself is raising a young family, but she longs for Jack O'Leary -- the long-ago sweetheart she cannot have. And soon Kitty must make a heartbreaking decision, one that could destroy everything she holds dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBridie, once a cook's daugher in Castle Deverill, is now a well-heeled New York City socialite. Yet her celebrity can't erase a past act that haunts her still. Nor can it keep her from seeking revenge upon the woman who wronged her all those years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs these three daughters of Ireland seek to make their way in a world once again beset by dark forces, Santa Montefiore shows us once more why she is one of the best-loved storytellers at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0062456881\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780062456885\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Montefiore, Santa\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2020)","offer_id":46099837616325,"sku":"9780062456885","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780062456885.jpg?v=1776645776"},{"product_id":"1919-volume-two-of-the-u-s-a-trilogy","title":"1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith \u003ci\u003e1919\u003c\/i\u003e, the second volume of his \u003ci\u003eU.S.A\u003c\/i\u003e. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his \"vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America\" (\u003ci\u003eForum\u003c\/i\u003e), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgain, employing a host of experimental devices that would inspire a whole new generation of writers to follow, Dos Passos captures the many textures, flavors, and background noises of modern life with a cinematic touch and unparalleled nerve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1919\u003c\/i\u003e opens to find America and the world at war, and Dos Passos's characters, many of whom we met in the first volume, are thrown into the snarl. We follow the daughter of a Chicago minister, a wide-eyed Texas girl, a young poet, a radical Jew, and we glimpse Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier. \u003ci\u003e1919\u003c\/i\u003e provides an incomparable portrait of America from the turn of the century to the Depression of 1929.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0618056823\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780618056828\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Dos Passos, John\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2023)","offer_id":46099878904005,"sku":"9780618056828","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780618056828.jpg?v=1776646131"},{"product_id":"the-sarvan","title":"The Sarvàn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMidsommer\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/em\u003e in this masterful blend of mystery, adventure, and folk-horror.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of the First World War, a handful of allied POWs escape the torments of Germany's most brutal internment camp only to find themselves stranded deep in the merciless wilderness of the Alps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe locals there are odd, and their traditions ancient. With hushed voices they whisper of a beast that roams the frozen mountains. They call it... \u003cstrong\u003eThe Sarvàn.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0999407430\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780999407431\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hoover, Douglass\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Blackpit Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Blackpit Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jun 2025)","offer_id":46099961217221,"sku":"9780999407431","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780999407431.jpg?v=1776646989"},{"product_id":"the-eights","title":"The Eights","description":"\u003cb\u003eFour young women. Four very different lives. One unshakeable friendship. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, their unshakable bond in the face of male contempt, and their coming of age in a world forever changed by World War I. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters.\" --Tracy Chevalier, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1920, in the wake of World War I and for the first time in its one-thousand-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Bursting with dreams, four young women move into Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto--collectively known as The Eights--come from all walks of life, each searching for an unknown future while holding tight to their secrets. A brash socialite too smart for her own good. A beautiful sister arriving in place of her lost soldier brother. A too-tall daughter desperate to escape her famous suffragette mother. A timid scholarship student with the biggest secret of all. Their unlikely friendship will change them in ways they could never have imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the historic spires and hallowed halls, and in the dark shadow of the Great War, the four women must rely on one another to survive a turbulent world where misogyny is rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of our great loves don't always remain dead.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593851439\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593851432\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Miller, Joanna\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 2026)","offer_id":46291852853445,"sku":"9780593851432","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593851432.jpg?v=1780113182"},{"product_id":"angel-down-pulitzer-prize-winner","title":"Angel Down (Pulitzer Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The critically acclaimed author of the \"crazily enjoyable\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eWhalefall\u003c\/i\u003e returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrivate Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are given a deadly mission: venture into the perilous No Man's Land to euthanize a wounded comrade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat they find amid the ruined battlefield, however, is not a man in need of mercy but a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire. This celestial being may hold the key to ending the brutal conflict, but only if the soldiers can suppress their individual desires and work together. As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngel Down \u003c\/i\u003eplunges you into the heart of World War I and weaves a polyphonic tale of survival, supernatural wonder, and moral conflict.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1668068451\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781668068458\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Kraus, Daniel\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Jul 2025)","offer_id":46291871072453,"sku":"9781668068458","price":27.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (May 2026)","offer_id":46291871105221,"sku":"9781668068519","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover - Large Print (Nov 2025)","offer_id":46291871137989,"sku":"9781420529937","price":34.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781668068458.jpg?v=1780113222"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/fiction-historical-20th-century-world-war-i.oembed?page=3","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}