Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Poldark 10 The Loving Cup
The Loving Cup is the tenth novel in Winston Graham’s sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark.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…
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Last Night in Twisted River
From the author ofA Widow for One Year,A Prayer for Owen Meanyand other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son – fugitives in 20th-century North America. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a…
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmark–the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame . . . a new setting each time. Selected by secret invitation,…
Read MoreSummer Before the War TP
New York Times – bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. It’s the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to…
Read MoreThe Woman in Cabin 10
“From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware–this time, set at sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel…
Read MoreMr. Mercedes
Originally published: New York: Scribner, 2014.
Read MoreThe Orphan’s Tale
A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan’s Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above…
Read MoreThe Awakening
Shushlest she awaken My name is Amelia Gray, a cemetery restorer who lives with the dead. An anonymous donor has hired me to restore Woodbine Cemetery, a place where the rich and powerful bury their secrets. Forty years ago, a child disappeared without a trace and now her ghost has awakened, demanding that I find…
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