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What do readers say about All the Light We Cannot See?
an amazing novelbeautiful book, but oh so sadheart-wrenchingfantastic novel*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award finalist *
From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New ... Read more about All the Light We Cannot See
In a corner of the city, inside a tall, narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel, on the sixth and highest floor, a sightless sixteen-year-old named Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over a low table covered en...
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What do readers say about City of Thieves?
clean and clearspare and evocativecompelling and thoughtfula well done novelFrom the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival - and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.
You have never been so hungry; you have never been so cold. When we slept, if we slept, we dreamed of the feasts we had carelessly eaten seven months earlier—all that buttered bread, the potato dumpli...
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What do readers say about The Nightingale?
heartbreaking and genuinetedious and immaturevery well plottedcliche bordering on melodramaticA #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.
With courage, grace, and powerful insight... Read more about The Nightingale
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. The...
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What do readers say about Fall of Giants?
compelling and entertaininga sweeping epicextensively researched historical novelpolitics of warKen Follett's magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's worl... Read more about Fall of Giants
He had done nothing to earn his huge income. He had simply inherited thousands of acres of land in Wales and Yorkshire. The farms made little money, but there was coal beneath them, and by licensing m...
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What do readers say about Flashman?
wildly politically incorrectunredeemly politically incorrectflashy rapes a womanan entertaining readThe story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s.... Read more about Flashman
The great mass of manuscript known as the Flashman Papers was discovered during a sale of household furniture at Ashby, Leicestershire, in 1965. The papers were subsequently claimed by Mr Paget Morris...
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What do readers say about Rise to Rebellion?
the american revolutionary wara novel of the american revolutionpretty straightforward, and quite a page turnera duologyJeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revol... Read more about Rise to Rebellion
HE HAD BEEN IN BOSTON FOR NEARLY EIGHTEEN MONTHS, HAD COME ashore with the rest of His Majesty’s Twenty-ninth Regiment after a miserable journey down from Halifax. The troops had been summoned to the ...
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What do readers say about The Alice Network?
haunting and inspiringa long, winding mysteryriveting, moving, encompassing, emotionalwomen spies in wartimeLibraryReads Selection
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller
An NPR's Best Book of the Year
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick! ... Read more about The Alice Network
I was sitting opposite my mother at a wicker table among the potted palms in the Dolphin Hotel, trying to ignore what my eyes were telling me. The blond girl by the front desk wasn’t who I thought she...
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What do readers say about One Thousand White Women?
a seemingly implausable storyinteresting and believablediary style narrativealternate historical fictionBased on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Dodd-a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.
One Thousand White Women begins with M... Read more about One Thousand White Women
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What do readers say about The Glorious Cause?
well-researched and thoroughthe american revolution 1763-1789the founding of the countryhistorical fictionIn Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonie... Read more about The Glorious Cause
HE HAD SAT OUT THE RAW MISERY OF THE STORM THROUGH MOST OF the night, keeping his boat tight against the shore. She was pulled up on soft ground between two large rocks, his private mooring, a hiding ...
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What do readers say about The Sherlockian?
pure historical fictionengaging and fresh throughouta simple mystery/detective storya ripping yarnHurtling from present day New York to Victorian London, The Sherlockian weaves the history of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into an inspired and entertaining double mystery that proves to be anything but "elementary."
In December 1893, ... Read more about The Sherlockian
“I’m going to kill him,” Conan Doyle said as he folded his arms across his broad frame. High in the Swiss Alps, the air tickled Arthur’s inch-thick mustache and seemed to blow straight through his ear...
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