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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves"--
Author
Series
Josephine Tey mystery volume 10
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During the mass evacuation from London in September 1939, a little girl vanishes without a trace and Josephine struggles with the chaos and uncertainty of war"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about dead bodies found in the snow, a mother seeking revenge, and old folk tales that may very well be true. New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection"--
Author
Series
A Veronica Speedwell mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
6) Fools crow
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xv, 393 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1870, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Pikuni (or Blackfeet) Indians, are living in the Two Medicine Territory of Montana. The extinction of the Pikuni way of life is ominously in sight. Only the form of that end is in question.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 185 pages, 18 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustration (map) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An Eton graduate is conscripted as a servant of the British Empire to oversea local policemen in Burma, forcing him to navigate social , racial and class politics"--
9) Kennedy 35
Author
Series
The Box 88 volume 3
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Mysterious Press edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an old friend relays shocking information about a failed mission in Senegal years earlier, veteran agent Lachlan Kite must use all his resources to protect his former partner from a criminal network with links to international terror.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A popular author in 1932 is commissioned to write a history of food in England to lift the spirits of the country during the Great Depression and finds herself interviewing housewives for hidden culinary gems.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago"--
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back with In Sunshine or in Shadow, the next book in this beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. New York, 1908: The days are getting longer-and warmer-in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn't want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she's expecting. So she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
Author
Series
A gaslight mystery volume 27
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into investigative articles on pressing social issues. Louisa explains...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two 1990s Ugandan teens are kidnapped and forced into the Lord's Resistance Army where they dream of surviving their captivity and their intent to remain good people.
Author
Series
Kyiv mysteries volume 1
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the instability, young Samson Kolechko places his engineering career on hold. But in the city of Kyiv where competing patrols, black-market enterprise, and mayhem prevail everything remains up for grabs and new opportunity lurks just around the corner . . . When two Red Army soldiers commandeer his home, Samson plays the reluctant...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 408 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
