Fiona Davis

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nebraska

A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota—New York City’s most famous residence. When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house the Dakota, leads to a job offer for Sara Smythe, her world is suddenly awash in possibility—no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America. The opportunity to be the female manager of the Dakota. And the opportunity to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like no one else...and is living in the Dakota with his wife and three young children. One hundred years later, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities: Fresh out of rehab, the former interior designer is homeless, jobless, and penniless. Bailey's grandfather was the ward of famed architect Theodore Camden, yet Bailey won't see a dime of the Camden family's substantial estate; instead, her “cousin” Melinda—Camden's biological great-granddaughter—will inherit almost everything. So when Melinda offers to let Bailey oversee the renovation of her lavish Dakota apartment, Bailey jumps at the chance, despite her dislike of Melinda's vision. The renovation will take away all the character of the apartment Theodore Camden himself lived in...and died in, after suffering multiple stab wounds by a former Dakota employee who had previously spent seven months in an insane asylum—a madwoman named Sara Smythe. A century apart, Sara and Bailey are both tempted by and struggle against the golden excess of their respective ages--for Sara, the opulence of a world ruled by the Astors and Vanderbilts; for Bailey, the nightlife's free-flowing drinks and cocaine—and take refuge in the Upper West Side's gilded fortress. But a building with a history as rich, and often as tragic, as the Dakota's can't hold its secrets forever, and what Bailey discovers inside could turn everything she thought she knew about Theodore Camden—and the woman who killed him—on its head.

The Address

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This book is in good condition with no wear to the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked but starting to yellow. Covers are not scuffed or worn but have a little bend and a small crease in the front. Printed in 1993, 303 pp.

Minnesota

Three individuals--nurse Hana, thief Caravaggio, and Kip--are brought together in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II by a nameless and hideously burned English patient. Reprint.

The English Patient

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Tennessee

Death and Honor (Honor Bound)

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Instant New York Times bestseller A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love. But the disappearance of Antonia’s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. Their hearts expand in tandem with Red Hook and Brooklyn around them, as they push against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship. One fateful night their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested. Only one of them can pull the trigger before it’s too late.

The Family

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Anthony Doerr

Louisiana

A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.

All the Light We Cannot See

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Lynn Cullen

Michigan

Struggling to support her family in mid-nineteenth-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.

Mrs. Poe

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Helen Simonson

Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner. Reprint. A best-selling novel.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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Grace Burrowes

No rips or stains or yellowing of pages. Smoke free dog friendly home. 

Oklahoma

"Sexy heroes, strong heroines, intelligent plots, enchanting love stories...Grace Burrowes's romances have them all." ---Mary Balogh, New York Times bestselling author

Too Scot to Handle

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Kathryn Stockett

California

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

The Help

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Heather Morris

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience. Her beauty saved her — and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when she was still a child? In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions. Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love. From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's Journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit—and the will we have to survive.

Cilka's Journey

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Alabama

Poland

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Leonardo Padura

Anna Kushner

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"Padura’s Heretics spans and defies literary categories . . . ingenious." —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author, Heretics is Leonardo Padura's greatest detective work yet. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana’s port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear. Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel’s son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family’s lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana. In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt’s gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times. A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura’s novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its center.

Heretics

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Arizona

Desperately Seeking Duke





The delightful search for the true Carlyle heir continues in this next book in the sexy Desperately Seeking Duke series from USA Today Bestselling Author Caroline Linden

She's a duchess in all but name

Philippa Kirkpatrick has been raised at Carlyle Castle by her doting guardian, the Duchess of Carlyle. Preoccupied with the succession of the dukedom and the duke's health, the duchess has left the estate in Philippa's hands--and Philippa is determined not to let her down.  

He's not a duke at all . . .

The arrival of a new estate steward should be a relief, but instead it threatens to upend everything. William Montclair is handsome, brash, and scandalously bold. The horrified duchess wants to sack him on sight. Philippa is just as shocked . . . but also, somehow, charmed.

But could he be her hero

Carlyle cannot be her home forever, but Philippa is determined to leave it in good hands. She means to teach Will how to run the estate properly and love Carlyle as she does. The more time she spends with Will, though, the more she likes him . . . trusts him . . . even loves him. Unfortunately, she's also more and more certain that Will is keeping secrets that could break her heart.

All the Duke I Need

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The time is 1771 and the colony of North Carolina teeters on an uneasy edge. Jamie Fraser is a man of worth but he has a lot to lose. His wife, Claire, is known notoriously as a wisewoman or a witch. They both know they have to survive

The Fiery Cross

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Markus Zusak

Illinois

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

The Book Thief

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Oregon

Trying to decipher an ancient text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, two researchers obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secre

The Rule of Four

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Kerri Maher

The Kennedy Debutante

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Irene B. Brand

Kristy Dykes

Nancy J. Farrier

Pamela Griffin

JoAnn A. Grote

Sally Laity

Judith Mccoy Miller

Janet Spaeth

9 Stories Celebrate Settling in America

Nine stories feature tales of love and Christian faith while settling for new lives in America, from a displaced Acadian and a Hessian soldier to a Swedish immigrant, a Chinese orphan, and a desperate Scottish widow.

The Immigrant Brides Collection

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Batiatus and Solonius vie with each other for the favor of one Marcus Licinius Crassus, an equites who aims at the praetorship. Thrilled by the bloody violence of the fights, Crassus decides to set-up his own gladiatorial school.

Spartacus: Morituri

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Spartacusnbsp;is the hit TV show which combines blood-soakednbsp;action, exotic sexuality, villainy and heroism. This original novelnbsp;from the world ofnbsp;Spartacus: Blood and Sandnbsp;tells a brand new
story of blood, sex and politics set in the uncompromising,nbsp;visceral world of the arena.

The gladiator Spartacus, the new Champion of Capua, fights atthe graveside of a rich man who was brutally murdered by hisnbsp;own slaves. Seeing an opportunity, ambitious lanista Quintusnbsp;Batiatus plots to seize the dead man's estate.

In the arena blood and death are primetime entertainment.nbsp;But not all battles are fought upon the sands...

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Fiona Davis

The Address

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The English Patient

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Death and Honor (Honor Bound)

Naomi Krupitsky

The Family

Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See

Lynn Cullen

Mrs. Poe

Helen Simonson

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Grace Burrowes

Too Scot to Handle

Kathryn Stockett

The Help

Heather Morris

Cilka's Journey

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Poland

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Heretics

Caroline Linden

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Markus Zusak

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Anthony Doerr

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The Rule of Four

Kerri Maher

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