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Garden of Stones

by Sophie Littlefield

Published: 2013-02-26

Paperback: 320 pages

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In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate sacrificeLucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up—along with thousands of other innocent J...

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The Chance: A Novel

by Karen Kingsbury

Published: 2013-03-05

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and a long-ago promise that just might offer the hope of love for today. The day before a teenage Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nola...

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The Forever Year

by Lou Aronica

Published: 2013-01-08

Paperback: 366 pages

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The Ambassador's Daughter

by Pam Jenoff

Published: 2013-01-29

Paperback: 331 pages

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Paris, 1919.The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly.Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal ini...

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The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday: 52 Weekends of Essential Knowledge for the Curious Mind

by The New York Times

Published: 2010-10-26

Hardcover: 560 pages

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A handy, smaller, and more focused version of our popular New York Times knowledge books?organized by weekends and topic Fell asleep during history class in high school when World War II was covered? Learned the table of elements at one time but have forgotten it since? Always wondered who...

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A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford Mystery

by Charles Todd

Published: 2009-08-25

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The daughter of a distinguished soldier‚ Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War‚ helping to deal with the many wounded. There‚ serving on a hospital ship‚ she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message t...

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Ashenden: A Novel

by Elizabeth Wilhide

Published: 2013-01-08

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A novel about people, a country estate, and living history “The house contains time. Its walls hold stories. Births and deaths, comings and goings, people and events passing through. . . . For now, however, it lies suspended in a kind of emptiness, as if it has fallen asleep or someone h...

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A Countess Below Stairs

by Eva Ibbotson

Published: 2007-05-10

Paperback: 400 pages

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After the Russian Revolution turns her world topsy-turvy, Anna, a young Russian countess, has no choice but to flee to England. penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family, armed only with an outdated hous...

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A Week in Winter

by Maeve Binchy

Published: 2013-02-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone ...

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Silken Prey

by John Sandford

Published: 2013-05-07

Hardcover: 416 pages

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The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times?bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner. ?If you haven’t read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists of all time.”?Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Murder, sca...