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Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to…
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on…
From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six—an entrancing novel “that speaks to the…
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal…
August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year…
Addie is The Boston Girl, the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family, born in…
In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless…
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a…
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone’s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by…
“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about…
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers…
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can…
Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of…
A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and…
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .…
Three female mystery book editors in Manhattan have personal and professional problems galore–which intersect with one…
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and…
Fifty years after an earthen dam collapsed sending a thirty-foot wall of raging destruction down…
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney for two decades. He is respected. Admired…
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow…
Deep in the hollows of Appalachia, in the shadow of Big Black Mountain, there used…
Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and…
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion,…
n a tale of friendship, self-discovery, and love, three women running away from their lives…
In this gripping New York Times bestseller, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation…
To seal a fragile truce, Fiona Sinclair’s brothers trade her in marriage to their sworn…
Bea Dot Ferguson has a life many in Savannah envy: a wealthy husband, a luxurious…
Secrets told in the church ladies’ room are supposed to stay in the ladies’ room.…
STOP THE WEDDING! is a laugh-out-loud romance! A man and a woman determined to stop their…
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she…
In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day.…
He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I’d…
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic,…
Hired to care for the daughter of an influential doctor, the illegitimate Mattie fights for…
In 1901, the Virginia Bridge & Iron Company began re-building a fifty-year-old Mississippi bridge. In…
Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too,…
Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader, and wealthy philanthropist is attending a fundraiser when he…
In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life…
Harkening back to the writing styles and small town settings of earlier American authors –…
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never…
Everyone needs to be rescued sometimes. Everyone but Hannah Montgomery, that is. She just needs…
A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author’s own family memoirs, these…
The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of…
Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog’s Purpose is not only the emotional and…
A moving, powerful, and evocative debut novel, When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt heralds…
Sixteen-year-old T.J. Callahan has no desire to go anywhere. With his cancer in remission, all…
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard…
Three women from different walks of life–a doctor, a socialite, and a stripper–find out they…
Actress Eden Riley’s decision to make a film about her mother plunges her into a…
Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed…
“It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you…
When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family’s old house,…
For Ann and Jesse Redfield, Quaker brother and sister, their hatred of slavery is as…
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s…