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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz

This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican...

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Master and Commander
Master and Commander
Aubrey / Maturin Series, Book 1
Patrick O'Brian

Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R. N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent,...

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Number the Stars
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi...

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The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher
Janice Y. K. Lee

In the epic tradition of The English Patient, this gripping tale of love and betrayal is set in war-torn Hong Kong. It is 1942, and Will Trusdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong,...

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Post Captain
Post Captain
Aubrey / Maturin Series, Book 2
Patrick O'Brian

"We've beat them before and we'll beat them again."

In 1803, Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from...

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Resolution
Resolution
Robert B. Parker

The New York Times–bestselling author's richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction.

"I had an eight-gauge...

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Roots
Roots
The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley

It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life,...

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Stone's Fall
Stone's Fall
Iain Pears
A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity.

In his most...
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Suite Française
Suite Française
Irène Némirovsky

A lost masterpiece of French literature, this epic novel of life under Nazi occupation was discovered 62 years after the author’s tragic death at Auschwitz. Originally intended to be in five...

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World Without End
World Without End
Ken Follett

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The PILLARS OF THE EARTH, Ken Follett has...

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