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Fiction
When
pregnant American student Charlie St. Clair is banished to Europe by
her family to have her baby, she takes the opportunity to head for
London to find her missing French cousin and teams up with Eve, a former
spy from the Alice Network, to solve the mystery.
Hurtled
back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743,
Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world
torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her
growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.
Discovering
a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl
becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father,
who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a
quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and
his mentor.
Set
against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, this darkly comic
novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two
hired guns who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill
Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.
In
1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further
complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville
turns detective, penetrating the cunning labyrinth of the abbey and
deciphering coded manuscripts for clues.
A story of
friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and
her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and
tragedies through a unique secret language.
Nonfiction
A
compelling account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 brings together
the divergent stories of two very different men who played a key role in
shaping the history of the event--visionary architect Daniel H.
Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and Dr. Henry H. Holmes, an
insatiable and charming serial killer who lured women to their deaths.
The
two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian draws on personal
correspondence and period diaries to present a landmark history of the
American Revolution that ranges from the siege of Boston, to the
American defeat at Brooklyn and retreat across New Jersey, to the
stunning American victory at Trenton, capturing the people and events
that transformed American history.
The
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch
Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while
explaining how its tragedies became possible.
Presents
a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of
wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions
and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the
most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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