"Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the far reaches of the remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region, the Coorong, in the new province of South Australia. The area, just opened to graziers willing to chance their luck, becomes home to Stanton Finch and his...
"When Hope Waters gets the chance to move west to Oregon, she doesn't hesitate. Her husband and all six of her grown children (plus their spouses) dive headfirst into the adventure, all eager to start a new life on the West Coast. It finally feels like the...
"With his father missing and his mother gravely ill, William Carter is struggling to keep his family's cotton farm afloat in the face of drought and foreclosure. As his options wane, William receives a mysterious letter that claims to know his father's...
"Fall, 1956. Award-winning but often-maligned combat photojournalist Georgette 'Dickey' Chapelle works press for the International Rescue Committee (IRC)-started by Albert Einstein during the Second World War-to bring the plight of the world's war refugees to...
"Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks, including the odious Wolkbart. Despite the spare walls which surround his sickbed, Othlo frolics with Holy Dionysius in the Garden of...
"Queen Boudicca. Infamous warrior, queen of the British Iceni tribe and mastermind of one of history's greatest revolts. Her defeat spelled ruin for her people, yet still her name is enough to strike fear into Roman hearts. But what of the woman who grew up in...
"One child. Two years in hiding. Three lives in mortal danger. In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank's house, another Jewish girl is hidden. Her name is Elli. Her father has been executed at Mauthausen concentration camp. Her mother is fleeing for her...
"Jayne Ferguson has always been a keeper of secrets, most especially her own . . . If there's one thing Jayne Ferguson has learnt in her life, it's that every blessing comes with a curse. She married the most handsome man on the isle of St Kilda - but he's a...
"Oregon Territory, December 1850: Annie Hudson has braved the long, perilous journey across the continent to answer a mail-order bride advertisement from Isaac Wheeler. The rugged frontier is far more than she expected, but Annie is determined to carve out a...
"The Oregon Territory, October 1850: After nearly a year of living out of a covered wagon, day after day of grueling work and heart-breaking tragedy, Caroline Harper has finally reached the Oregon Territory where her new life will begin. She thought she had...
"Independence, Missouri, 1850: When Jimmy Rayburn -- the boy Nora has loved since childhood -- proposes to her best friend instead, her carefully planned future shatters in an instant. Desperate for a fresh start, Nora joins her family on the treacherous...
"She vowed to follow him anywhere. What happens when he's gone? 1850, Independence, Missouri: Rebecca Tenney had the life she always dreamed of-a warm home, a loving family, and a marriage built on devotion. When her husband, Andrew, set his heart on Oregon,...
"1850, Independence, Missouri: Beth McKinnon and her family leave behind everything they've known, setting out on the Oregon Trail in search of a better future. With six children to protect and endless dangers ahead, Beth's mind never stops racing with worries...
"1850, Independence, Missouri: Annie Hudson has one goal-start over in Oregon, far away from the life she's leaving behind. Responding to a mail-order bride advertisement seems like her ticket to a fresh start, but the road west isn't a simple one. When her...
"1850, Independence, Missouri: Olivia Greenwood has always yearned for more than the life of an overlooked orphan in Virginia. Raised by distant relatives, she craves independence and purpose. When she meets Luke Montgomery, a spirited traveling preacher with...
"Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription Amor gignit amorem haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross, Demelza and the ambitious...
"Cornwall, 1812. At Nampara, the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising - and worrying - news. And Clowance, newly returned from her London triumphs, finds that...
"Cornwall, 1810. The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his mission to Wellington's army in Portugal. But their ordered existence ends with Jeremy Poldark's dramatic rescue of a stranger from the sea. Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark...
"It's 1942 and the Second World War is raging on. Maggie Carpenter led a seemingly quiet life as a teacher in Manchester, but as the fighting intensifies she quits her peaceful existence to do her bit for the war effort. As part of an army of girls working on...
"In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline,...
"Princess Maakah of Geshur is duty-bound to create a political alliance for her father through marriage. The cancellation by King Saul of her betrothal to his fourth-born son compels Maakah's father to send her to the rebel David ben Jesse, a shepherd-warrior...
"1926: Charlotte Crowninshield was born into one of the finest Boston society families. Now she's on the run from a brutal husband, desperate to disappear into the wilds of the Southwest. Billie MacTavish is the oldest of nine children born to Scottish...
"England, 1904. Christmas at Ashmore Castle should be a time of celebration - but scandal arrives with snow. The Earl's uncle returns from Italy with a beautiful young bride on his arm, sending shockwaves through the family and threatening Kitty's already...
"Orphaned at a young age, Rose Hamilton can barely remember a mother's warmth or a father's protection. Instead, she has endured the cold, loveless rule of her embittered Aunt Win, a woman who seems to take pleasure in making Rose's life as difficult as...
"Winter, 1578. Lord Araki Murashige, once considered a hero of the age, has betrayed his oldest ally and barricaded himself in Arioka Castle. But a string of strange incidents within the castle walls have rendered him helpless. The desperate warlord's only...
"York, 1940. World War Two has arrived for the girls of the Rowntrees factory, and with rationing crippling the country, chocolate production has been driven to a bare minimum. It's all change for the Freeman sisters when the Rowntrees factory is turned over...
"He agreed to save her reputation. His heart wasn't part of the bargain. Victor Pratt may be heir to a viscountcy, but his heart belongs to canvas and color-not courtship. Dodging his mother's latest attempts to marry him off, he concocts a plan: a faux...
"A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars must travel from France to Louisiana to rescue a young noblewoman, but he is quickly ensnared in a complex web of intrigue and violence"--Page 4 of cover.
"Two lost women. One Greek island. A secret that spans generations. Kefalonia, Greece, 1953. On a sun-drenched island, Cassia defies her powerful father by falling in love with Nikos - a man her family will never accept. But their happiness is short-lived. A...
"New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure instead, she jumps at an unexpected offer to trade her libraryjob for undercover intelligence-gathering in Portugal. But her new life in Lisbon, known as the Capital of Espionage,...
"Romorantin-Lanthenay, France April 2020 When figure skater Sigal Lambert returns to her late father's village for his small pandemic-era funeral, she discovers a war medal tucked away among his things, a Croix de Guerre awarded to the grandmother she never...
"In 1920s Paris, Misia Sert is a patron and a muse to the most revolutionary artists of the era. She is also profoundly in love with renowned muralist Jose Maria "Jojo" Sert, who prizes his wife's iconoclastic vision and independence. But in Misia's rarified...
"A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the American Civil War from the Booker Prize shortlisted author. Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional...
"In America's Old West, the outlaw Kim Carsons - expert gunslinger, lover of the occult and the extreme - recruits a brazen band of marauding outlaws, the Wild Fruits, to battle the forces of morality and mind control. A wildly comic and grotesque satire that...
"Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an 'observer' of...
"London, 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother Jack. Evacuated together, hand in hand they escaped a cruel farming family only to find their home destroyed, their mother gone. Wide-eyed Elsie hasn't spoken...
"Germany, 1941. When Pascal kisses Noemi and presses his mother's locket into her hands, it is a moment she has been longing for her whole life. But when war is declared, overnight their love becomes forbidden - Noemi is Jewish, while Pascal is being pressured...
"Winter, 1942. As the weather turns cold, and the war rages on, Veronica Campbell finds herself loving her job as a home front nurse more than ever. She's spending time with her beloved best friends Sylvia and Freda, as well as assisting on life-saving...
"1950, Stretton Village, Cambridgeshire. Emily's troubles continue as she tries to manage the Vanbrough estate, which has been left in trust for her son. Is there hope she can find new love and happiness? Frances has survived a fate worse than death but can...
"Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial at the Bodmin Assizes. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But there are enemies in plenty who would be...
"Cornwall, 1795: Although Ross Poldark - now something of a war hero - seems secure in his hard won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four women - the four swans - whose lives touch...
"Paris, 1952-- Still haunted by the years she spent serving in the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII, ex-pat Kat Fontaine, now living in Paris, finds a simple cookery class led by indomitable chef Julia Child unearths the tangle of...
"Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans - the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy's gates, all must be reborn in the greatest...
"After suffering through her first year of graduate school at Columbia following her senator father's death, Betsy Whiting is hoping to spend the summer with her boyfriend ... and hopefully end the summer as his fiancée. Instead, her mother - a longtime...
"Sidney and Ida Whipple are living the suburban 1950s American dream, complete with two children and a white picket fence, which didn't seem possible when they first met at the height of WWII in France. Reveling in the present, they can almost convince...
"Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world. Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way...
"In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America's rising eugenics movement--when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race,...
"Following the murder of her husband in what looks like a violent street robbery, Hannah Cole is struggling to keep her head above water. Her confectionary shop on Piccadilly is barely turning a profit, her suppliers conspiring to put her out of business...
"Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are...
"After a steady descent from literary stardom, Lane Warren is back. She's secured a new book deal based off the life of her sometime friend and, more often, rival Gala Margolis. Lane's only problem is that notorious free spirit Gala has been missing for...
"Set in Japan during the final days of World War II, with a shocking historical premise: three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific--not two--and when one of them falls into the hands of the Japanese, the fate of a couple that has been separated...
"Surrey, England, 1938. After thirty devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband's appeal for divorce. It's Ellie's opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She's taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper...
"Eilean Eòin is a tiny scrap of land which is stranded amidst miles of fierce ocean, where the scant population barely cling to a centuries' old way of life. It is here that Flora McKinnon, an aging islander, is brought news of her youngest child's death,...
"1909, Northumberland. Shona has always secretly thought of her husband James's fishing boat as the enemy. She wishes she could ask James to do a different job, a safer job, but it would have made him laugh, and she's too proud to tell him she fears for him...
"When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier, Joe - she is shocked. He is losing his sight and, after years of no contact, suddenly wants to reconnect. Now, Olive must decide whether or not to reveal that she has...
"Great Grimsby, Peace Day July 1919. The Great War is over, and few families have been left untouched. Those who remain face a tough and uncertain future. Letty Hardy has managed to keep her family afloat by running a cafe and chandlers on Grimsby Docks. She's...
"1940. The Blitz rages, but life goes on in the heart of London's East End. Charity has spent her life keeping her family together -- raising her younger brothers, running the family boarding house on West India Dock Road, and now shielding her fragile parents...
"The true parentage of Theseus, grandson of the King of Troizon, has always been shrouded in mystery. Rumours swirl that his father is Poseidon himself. But when he learns the truth - that he is the son and heir of Aegeus, King of Athens - Theseus sets out on...
"They're a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying...
"London, 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son, he visits his mistress only to find that she's given birth to his daughter - and wants nothing to do with her. His wife, Florrie, reluctantly agrees to take them...
"A final journey uncovers the hidden wounds of an old man's soul, as he clings to hope that the God who redeemed him long ago has saved the greatest miracle for last... Tennessee Country, 1798 Runs-Far, beloved elder of the Cherokee, lays dying. While family...
Purple. The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men. One woman rises up to take the reins of success in an incredible journey of courage, grit, and friendship. And along the way, she changes the world. But before she was Lydia, the...
"Galveston, Texas. September 1900. Only months ago, Kathleen McDaniel returned from finishing school in Switzerland to her family home in New York's Hudson Valley with a future of promise and privilegeset before her. But one horrific event shattered her...
"Emma Lou Morgan's dark-skinned complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation - not only to herself, but also to her lighter-skinned family members and the white community of her hometown. Hoping to find acceptance, Emma Lou travels to Harlem, New York, the...
"The Great War opened up an exciting new career for Vi in London. But that was yesterday. Now, the war's over, her husband is dead and she needs to pick up the pieces of her life. On her way home she meets a man who needs her help. Recently demobbed, Joss...
"Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly...
"It has been two years since Aveline Birgersdottir and Vidar Alvarsson have seen their dear friend, Jan 'Joetunnson' Jarlufson. In the spring of 882, they are pleasantly surprised when he arrives unexpectedly at their door, but little do they know that Jan's...
"Aveline is a far cry from the kind, naive woman she once was. A ferocious leader, she must fight for her right to rule in a society dominated by tradition, vicious new enemies, and the ghosts of her past who have returned to haunt her. After the carnage...
"Pillaging. Violence. That is what the Norsemen were infamous for, and when they invaded the Kingdom of the East Angles in autumn 865, that is exactly what they did. Aveline, an Anglo-Saxon child, is taken captive by Birger Bloody Sword and stolen away to...
"Shlomo Libowitz and Anton Epstein, two Jewish prisoners subjected to horrific experiments in a Nazi concentration camp, survive the unimaginable. Decades later, their lives converge again as they hunt Hans Lichtblau, the SS officer who tormented them, now...
"As Europe edges closer to war, Bella's world is focused on avoiding a future like her mother's. She doesn't want to go to secretarial school to become another proper young lady; standing by prettily waiting to be chosen as a wife by her employer or another...
"From famine-ravaged Ireland to the glittering goldfields of Australia and New Zealand comes the captivating true story of Julia Eichardt, a woman who defied every hardship life placed before her. Born into poverty and shaped by loss, Julia's fierce...
"Emmy Darling has a secret. She has a few. Her lemon meringue pie is a recipe from a women's magazine, she's always wanted to be a playwright, and the best parts of her husband Sebastian's plays are the scenes she's written during edits. But when charismatic...
"Everyone knows of William Shakespeare, the rakish former actor and famous playwright. But few know the three women writing every word of his plays: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, a frustrated poet; Emelia Bassano, a court musician with a passion for...
"Leaving behind a quiet life of simple comforts, Nairna Liath traverses the Scottish countryside with her charlatan father, Tavish. From remote cottages to rural fairs, the duo scrapes by on paltry coins as Tavish orchestrates 'encounters' with the departed,...
"Led into a troubled lifestyle by the past that haunts him, Gavriel, a soldier in King Saul's army, is sent on a mission to persuade a distant tribe to sever their ties with the Amalekites. Zahana is hidden behind her father's goldsmith legacy, but an...
"In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite's invitation to the esteemed West Adams Heights, Charlie is immediately captivated by the Black opulence of L.A.'s newly...
"1947: Adventurous Radcliffe graduate Catherine 'Cat' Killeen cancels her wedding and upends a future that no longer suits her. At the behest of her professor and hungry for a challenge, Cat arrives in Virginia to work on a confidential military project. A...
"Naomi is upset to find a nasty, anonymous letter land on her doorstep. Who could've sent something like this? Naomi, Bert and the Churchwood bookshop organising team are determined to figure out who it is sending her these poison pen letters. Because it must...
"London, 1918: the war in Europe may be drawing to an end, but there are new challenges for the Foyles bookshop girls. As their dreams of the war ending look like they might finally come true, the girls of London's Foyles bookshop allow themselves to look...
"17-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English father, Sidney Cooper, is captured by the Nazis, her world is shattered. Fearing for her safety, Elise is forced to abandon the only life she has ever known - her beloved...
"The Philippines, 1941. Rose Williams arrives in Manila on her first assignment as a US Army nurse, enthralled by the new environment and its promise of adventure. Although worlds away from the land she grew up in, Rose feels connected to her father, who...
"German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda is stunned to see Fritz's name in a photograph of an...
"Paris, 1940. Golden light bathes the crumbling rooftop of the orphanage. I stroke my little sister's hair and comfort the other war orphans climbing into the rickety truck. We must leave the only home we have left, or the Nazis will find us... Margot has...
"Daisy Lindberg and Lily Boyle traded a colorful past for a fresh start as seamstresses in Autrie, Texas, and their aim to spark a women's rights movement is raising eyebrows among the town's dumbfounded men. But among the ladies? Tired of being treated like...
"Poland, 1943. "We owe you our lives" The elderly woman clasps my hands before climbing the attic ladder to hide with her family. I am filled with anger, sadness and fear: but I can't give in to my tears now. Not when this isn't the only secret I'm keeping...
"September, 1948. The Iron Curtain has descended. Behind it is the woman he loves. The Berlin Blockade has begun and Soviet aggression threatens to ignite a new conflict. Now based in the besieged German city, Auguste Duchene finds himself part of a Cold War...
"London, 1941. As the city thrums with Blitz bombers, lonely air raid warden Ruby is drawn into the unfamiliar world of the India Forum, where a group of Londoners are working tirelessly to free India from British rule. Ruby has her own secret motives for...
"From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the same Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since transforming into Antonio, he has had monumental adventures and taken on numerous guises. He has been a...
"After being widowed on her wedding day, Emma Johnson moves to Cheyenne with her sister-in-law to start over. Emma's life has been marked by wild living and a desire for fun, but the death of her husband forces her to reconsider her priorities. Her...
"When the young Queen Elizabeth I is entrusted with Anne Boleyn's secret diary, she discovers a great deal about the much-maligned mother she never knew. And on learning the truth about her lascivious and despotic father, Henry VIII, she vows never to...
"Lincolnshire, 1854.After much reflection, Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendishs marriage proposal. Yet, their peaceful life on the farm is soon threatened by a series of mishaps and the strange deaths of livestock. As the pressure mounts for Max to make...
"Somerset, 1932. In the dead of night, a young woman is abandoned on the steps of Orchard Cottage Hospital and a man is seen fleeing. Nobody knows their identities. When the young woman dies, Doctor Frances Brakespeare is keen to solve the mystery of her...
"Betsy Drew has one thing on her mind. And that's the hope that Alvis Dooley might glance in her direction. But it's the outbreak of World War II in Liverpool and whilst everyone is fearful of what Hitler might do next, Betsy is full of dreams for a future...
"At fifteen years old, Gail Blenheim is the truly the apple of her father, Harry's, eye. Sweet, mild-mannered, with the promise to grow into a true beauty, she'll always bring her father joy, which is something he'll never take for granted. But Gail knows that...
"East London, 1942: With the men at war, can the women of the East End band together to defend their loved ones, their city and their country?Chestnut-haired Corporal Effie Weston has grit beyond her twenty years. Determined to do her duty, she has joined up...
"After the death of her mother, whom she had spent her life caring for, Ruth Latham is lucky to find work as a typist at the Potteries Tramway Company in Stoke. While conscription forces more men to leave for the battlefields, Ruth finds herself growing closer...
"At a party near Stanford University's campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets Indra Mukherjee, an Indian revolutionary newly arrived in California. Indra is grieving the recent loss of a...
"In 1943, Georgeanne "George" Ector joins the WASP program to pursue her dream of flying, inspired by her mother, a fearless Oklahoma farm girl with a gift for mechanics. George finds a kindred spirit in Vivian Shaw, and together they achieve their goals as...
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