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Bliss, Remembered
Editors' choice
This novel begins with Sydney Stringfellow, a young American swimming hopeful at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, meeting her soul mate,…
The Man Who Never Returned
Fintan Dunne’s retirement life in sunny Florida has not proven very satisfying to the veteran of the NYPD and wartime…
Evangeline
Based on the poem of the same name by Longfellow, Evangeline tells the story of the Great Upheaval, the forcible…
The Jade Cat
The Løvin family has survived world-changing events, including two world wars and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis, but…
A Quiet Belief in Angels
A Quiet Belief in Angels follows narrator Joseph Vaughan, an author, who recounts the story of his life, from his…
Rifling Paradise
Charles Redbourne, a minor middle-aged English landholder, is forced by a series of unsavory circumstances to flee to Australia in…
Centurion
The story opens on the banks of the River Euphrates, where a Roman cohort is building a fort to protect…
Funny Boys
Mickey Fine and Mutzie Feder dream big in 1920s New York. Mickey is a tumler, an entertainer and host…
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
Three talented, young sisters are forced to publish under a male pseudonym in Victorian England. Fearing exposure after an accusation…
Courting Shadows
One would be hard-pressed to find a more unpleasant protagonist than John Stannard. A young architect commissioned in 1881 to…
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