Doubleday
Heresy
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The name Giordano Bruno is carved deep into the gravestone of Inquisition heretics. He was burned at the stake in…
Heresy
Editors' choice
The name Giordano Bruno is carved deep into the gravestone of Inquisition heretics. He was burned at the stake in…
New York: The Novel
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Edward Rutherfurd says that “New York’s magnificent gift to the storyteller is a four-century history as exciting as that of…
Gifts of War
During the Christmas truce along the front in 1914, British infantry officer Hal Montgomery emerges from the trenches to meet…
City of Ghosts
(1) 1919, India. Amritsar is a city in ferment. Riots against British rule are increasing and, sooner or later, there…
The House of Special Purpose
When Georgy Jachmenev inadvertently stops a bullet meant for the Tsar’s uncle, his life is changed forever. It is 1916…
Across the Endless River
The youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau became a ward of William Clark, then a trapper…
The Nostradamus Prophecy
Sixteenth-century France, a country divided by sectarian hatred: Protestant Huguenots versus Catholics. The weak King Charles is ruled by his…
Land of Marvels
Somerville, a British archaeologist, is spending his third season working on Tell Erdek in Mesopotamia just months before the start…
The Book of Negroes
Africa, 1755. Aminata, age 11, is captured by slave traders and sold into slavery in South Carolina, where she suffers…
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