š Where past meets powerful storytelling.
Richly detailed and vividly imagined, these novels bring bygone eras to lifeāilluminating the people, events, and moments that shaped the world.
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Lawrence Hill's award-winning novel is a major television miniseries airing on BET Networks.The Book of Negroes (based on the novel Someone Knows My Name) will be BET's first miniseries. The star-studded production includes lead actress Aunjanue Ellis (Ray, The Help),...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĀ ā¢ From the acclaimed author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife: an exquisitely suspenseful novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic eventābased on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history.āLong...
A "stirring tribute to an unsung trailblazer" and "a gripping tale of perseverance." āPublishers WeeklyShe helped her brothers soarā¦ but was the flight worth the fall?Ā It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college...
Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to...
āI couldnāt stop readingā¦ A corker! Heartbreakingā¦ Dazzlingā¦ Best read with a great big box of tissuesā¦ Wonderfulā¦ Hard to forgetā¦ Outstanding.ā Goodreads reviewer, āāāāāEngland 1939. I desperately push my way through the crowded platform and try to find my darling...
In wartime Corfu, two hearts defy the odds.Corfu, 1943As the Nazis drag Jews from their homes in the dead of night, Rosa knows time is running out. Her father clings to the hope that they will be spared, even as whispers of deportation grow louder. When he demands...
A Brave Noblewoman Loses AllIn 1099, Lady Margaret is betrothed to the heir of a great Norman estate and will become a countess. Before she weds, her beloved mother dies. After the funeral, Margaret is betrayed by her father, Lord Charles, who falsely proclaims she...
Caroline Scott's The Poppy Wife is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, profound loss, and the startling truth of the broken families following World War I. Ā 1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives....
āStardust shines brilliantly.ā Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen QueenāMy go-to author when it comes to heart-wrenching historical sagas. Stardust is a pageturner that'll immerse you in all the decadence and danger of WWII Paris.ā Kris...
"Turbulent and dramatic, full of longing and death and lust, the yearning to cover one's own life and way in the world." āDavid Mehegan, Boston Globe An elegant and astute tale of desire and betrayal, science and medicine, from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell)...
