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| Wolf winter: a novel by Cecilia EkbäckEmigrating from their native Finland to Swedish Lapland in 1717, Maija and her emotionally fragile husband, Paavo, along with their two young daughters, struggle to adapt to their new life as homesteaders. When the girls find a man's body in the woods, bearing wounds too clean and precise to be the result of an animal attack, Maija realizes that someone in their tiny, isolated community is a murderer. Her investigation into the crime angers both her neighbors and the church, putting her family in grave danger once the harsh winter descends. |
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| Epitaph: a novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary Doria RussellThirty seconds, thirty bullets. In this sequel to Doc, author Mary Doria Russell employs meticulous research, sumptuous period detail, and sensitive, in-depth character studies to dispel the legends surrounding the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As the consumptive Doc Holliday accompanies Wyatt Earp and his brothers to Tombstone, Arizona to face off against the Clantons and the McLaurys, Epitaph explores the circumstances leading up to the shootout as well as the complicated aftermath of the fateful event. |
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In the land of the long white cloud
by Sarah Lark
Hardworking London governess Helen Davenport longs for a family of her own but knows the prospect of finding a suitable husband grows dimmer each year. Then she spots an advertisement seeking wives for the churchgoing bachelors of colonial New Zealand and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer. Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, society life bores Gwyneira Silkham, beautiful, daring daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder. She finds an unexpected escape when her father loses a blackjack hand to a mysterious New Zealand baron and Gwyn's hand in marriage goes to the baron's son.
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The ice cream queen of Orchard Street: a novel
by Susan Jane Gilman
Russian immigrant Malka arrives in 1913 Manhattan, where she struggles to survive and learns trade secrets from an Italian ices peddler before setting off across America in an ice cream truck with a handsome, illiterate radical to seek their fortunes.
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| The marriage game: a novel of Queen Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThis sequel to The Lady Elizabeth begins in 1558 with the 25-year-old Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, following the newly crowned queen as she navigates affairs of state and affairs of the heart. Given England's political instability and her own turbulent family history - in addition to surviving four stepmothers, she is the daughter of a queen executed for treason and the half-sister of a queen who once had her imprisoned in the Tower of London - Elizabeth is in no hurry to wed. However, she's willing to play the game, pitting foreign suitors against one another while enjoying the attentions of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. If you like The Marriage Game, you may enjoy Margaret George's Elizabeth I, which focuses on a later part of Good Queen Bess' 45-year reign. |
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"Perhaps I would be too late to save them." ~ from Jeremy Page's The Collector of Lost Things
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| Away by Amy BloomLillian Leyb arrives in New York City in 1924, the survivor of a Russian pogrom that killed her family. Barely able to speak English and still mourning the loss of her husband and three-year-old daughter, Sophie, Lillian lucks into a job as a seamstress at the Goldfadn Yiddish Theater and starts to make a new life for herself in America. But then she learns that Sophie may still be alive. Unsure whether to believe the rumor but unable to disregard it, Lillian sets out on an arduous journey to find her child - one that will take her from New York to Chicago to Alaska and finally to Siberia and beyond. Don't miss this unusual immigrant saga, filled with fully realized, sympathetic characters. |
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| The ghost of the Mary Celeste: a novel by Valerie MartinOn December 5, 1872, en route to the Strait of Gibraltar, the merchant brig Mary Celeste appears off the coast of Spain - abandoned but still seaworthy, its cargo intact, and with no trace of its passengers or crew. Long after the event, people continue to speculate about what really happened aboard the doomed ship: a young Arthur Conan Doyle pens a short story about the incident; Philadelphia spiritualist Violet Petra offers her insights (while journalist Phoebe Grant seeks to expose the medium as a fraud); and the surviving relatives of Captain Briggs, members of an old seafaring family that's experienced its share of tragedy, are left wondering where their loved ones went. Based on true events, this well-researched novel employs an intricate, non-linear narrative to shed light on a still-unsolved historical mystery. |
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| The collector of lost things: a novel by Jeremy PageGuided by rumors of the Great Auk, a flightless bird thought to be extinct, naturalist Eliot Saxby sets sail for the North Atlantic in 1845. Aboard the Amethyst, Saxby encounters a captain and crew whose interests are more commercial than scientific, as well as passengers who aren't what they seem. Of particular interest to Saxby is an English gentleman by the name of Bletchley and his companion, Clara, whom Saxby once knew as "Celeste." With its strong sense of place and well-developed characters, The Collector of Lost Things may appeal to fans of Andrea Barrett's Voyage of the Narwhal, which also describes a shipboard journey to the Arctic. |
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| Above all things: a novel by Tanis RideoutWhat do you do when the "other woman" in your husband's life is a mountain? Ruth, wife of British explorer George Mallory, has spent years competing with Mount Everest, which continues to hold George in its thrall despite two previous failed expeditions to the summit. Set in 1924, Above All Things unfolds in parallel narratives that follow George as he undertakes one final attempt to conquer Everest and Ruth as she remains in England, raising their children while waiting for word of her husband's fate. To learn more about George Mallory's mountaineering career, check out Ghosts of Everest, a nonfiction account of the 1999 expedition that retraced Mallory's journey and discovered his final resting place. |
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