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The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron -- now a Reese's Book Club YA Pick! One knock at the door, and...

If your life was based on a lie, would you risk it all to tell the truth? At Montverre, an ancient and elite academy hidden high in the mountains, society’s best and brightest are trained for excellence in the grand jeu—the great game—an arcane and mysterious...

For decades, England has sold "the defeat” of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel as a great success for the Anglo-Saxons, But in fact, it was a British victory in the context of a 16-year war that, in the end, Spain won, A...

On the plains of Marathon an army of slaves gathers... Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army - swollen by 10,000 Immortal warriors - have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn...

A stunning tour de force acclaimed throughout the world, The Ginger Tree is the spellbinding odyssey of one woman's strength and spirit in the face of terrifying odds… In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military...

Conn Iggulden, the New York Times bestselling author of the Emperor, Conqueror, and Wars of the Roses series, returns to the ancient world with a ferociously violent epic… 401 BC. In the ancient world, one army was feared above all others. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules...

On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near...

One morning in January 1913, G. H. Hardy - thirty-seven years old, eccentric and charismatic, and already considered one of the greatest British mathematicians of his time - receives a mysterious envelope bearing abundant Indian stamps. Inside is a somewhat incoherent letter from a...

This is a true story. A story that begins and ends in one day. A story that lasts a lifetime. Can you relive a life in one day? It happened in New York. On Christmas Day 1969. And the protagonist is Willie Sutton, the...

London just suffered a bombing. Enemy planes drift away, and in the city, people are struggling to win back what's left of their lives. In the midst of the chaos, a woman wanders alone, injured. She doesn't remember anything, not even her name. The...

Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl...

Prague 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter Miriam safe is to send her away - even if it means never seeing her again. But when Eva is...

Amsterdam 1654: against the backdrop of Holland's Golden Age, a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life… Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five-year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful...

Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from...

Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter...

Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the memories of Daniel’s mother,...

Encouraged by the commercial success of the Magallanes expedition after the return of the nail-laden Victoria under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano, Carlos I decides to send a second more ambitious fleet to Las Molucas under the command of Don García Jofre de...

In the 1st century BC, Marco Claudio Marcelo is a young man from Cordoba who wishes to leave his province, Hispania Ulterior, but does not imagine that the civil war unleashed between Julius Caesar and the sons of Pompey will completely alter his life....

The struggle of two women for power in the crown of Castile. On the one hand, Isabel of Portugal, queen of Castile, mother of Isabel la Católica; on the other, her great enemy, Juana de Pimentel. Both will battle to possess the Lobera, the...

Lucio Domicio, after fighting under the orders of Marcus Aurelius on the banks of the Danube, attends the funeral of the late Caesar in Rome. There he will meet the beautiful Valeria, who, despite her distant treatment, captivates him. However, Commodus' rise to power...