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The Drum Tower is Farnoosh Moshiri's fourth work of fiction concerned with the deleterious effects of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. This novel, told by a mentally ill, 16-year-old girl, depicts the fall of Drum Tower, the house of a family descended...

Boston, 1870. Photographer Edward Moody runs a booming business capturing the images of the spirits of the departed in his portraits. He lures grieving widows and mourning mothers into his studio with promises of catching the ghosts of their deceased...

Deftly blending period detail and modern sensibility, Max Phillips presents here a bold, unapologetic Alma Shindler, who narrates her own provocative story from beyond the grave.Book InformationISBN 9781566492737Author Max PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage...

These eight tales from the Song and Ming Dynasties present readers with a colorful tapestry of adventure and misadventure, erotic romance, crafty intrigue, supernatural fantasy, comedies of errors, and crimes and punishment in sixteenth and seventeenth...

The Girl from Guantanamo is a captivating work of the historical fiction genre that electrifies readers with the harrowing tale of Pilar Ruiz, who as an eighteen- year- old in 1958 Cuba, improbably secured the course of the Castro Revolution. In 1958 the...

Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-all-trades," takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the 1970s. Three are teenaged "Hong Kong boys," one of...

After a ferocious early springtime storm, young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand is shipwrecked in the English Channel near the coastal Kent town of Dengate; he is one of few survivors. Soon after, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job as...

After years of fighting abroad, Ian MacDonald comes home to find his clan in peril. To save his kin, he must right the wrongs from his past . . . and claim the bride he's long resisted.As a young lass, Sileas depended on Ian to play her knight in shining...

This intense yet panoramic novel is based on an actual episode during the battle of Wagram, in Austria, as it appears in the diary of one of Napoleons generals: two cavalry regiments that did their best to annihilate each other before the gates of Vienna...

The small Italian town of Cortenza is home to Beppe Arpino, a boy blessed with poor posture and chronic insomnia. Under the paternal eye of Father Vicenzo, the local priest, Beppe develops a passion for teeth and, after the priest's death, heads to...

Tianyi is a painter and writer whose life coincides with perhaps the most turbulent era in China's vast history. Raised in a world whose ageless traditions were on an irreversible collision course with modernity and the West, Tianyi heads to Paris on a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316382991Author Emily HollemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 318g

Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil-a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertao-Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until...

In this sequel to Peter Scott's first novel, Something in the Water, islanders face another invasion, this one by refugees from the turbulent social upheavals of the late 1960s. In this book, hippies, Vietnam veterans, and back-to-the-landers bring with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998740003Author Luan StarovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Autumn Hill BooksPublisher Autumn Hill BooksWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976231Author Bernardo AtxagaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm...

The captivating new historical novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting Pre-order the most delightful, escapist historical of the year from the Sunday Times bestselling author! ...

What if you had real magic within you . . . ? The utterly spellbinding new novel from the celebrated author of THE GIFTS1896. As a group of illusionists prepare for a grand spectacle, one young woman, Cecily Marsden, harbours a secret. For she possesses...

Taking place during World War II, Somewhere in the Stars is the story of three young men from San Francisco -- Nick Spataro, his cousin Paolo, and friend Nathan Fein -- and their adventures as members of an American tank battalion chasing the Germans up...

AD 60. Britannia. The Boudica Revolt begins . . .Macro and Cato - heroes of the Roman Empire - face a ruthless enemy set on revenge The Roman Empire's hold on the province of Britannia is fragile. The tribes implacably opposed to Rome have grown cunning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312206482Author Bernard CornwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

They will have justice. They will show their power. They will not burn.'Three women's fight for survival in a time of madness' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The MerciesNorway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to...

On the first day of July 1863, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia accidentally crossed swords with George Gordon Meade's federal Army of the Potomac. They clashed at a tiny Pennsylvania crossroads called Gettysburg. Three days later, at least...

In this fictional account of the events and the key players involved in the Wall Street panic of 1907, the famous author of The Jungle depicts the glittering society of New York's fabulously wealthy, for whom money is not the object of existence, just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804679449Author Michael J WormaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 800g

'God save all here.'Summer, 1847. People are getting used to the corpses lying by the road and along the ditches. For John Mitchel - lawyer, journalist, activist, politician - the word 'famine' will forever conjure the hollowed faces of Ireland's dead,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781555975654Author Jessica Francis KaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Graywolf...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434454522Author J H IngrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 604Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 1052g

In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war.'Exquisite, relevant and immersive' ANNA MAZZOLA'Hypnotically readable . . . Stef Penney is a mesmerising storyteller' AMANDA CRAIGAnne is a former patient from a...

It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.Willie Somerset...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418205248Author Mariano Fernandez UrrestiFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 150mm *...

A mother can never be free until she finds her children... The Good Morning America Book Club Pick February 2023 is a soaring novel inspired by true events.'A strong and beautiful novel that stares into the face of brutality and the heart of love'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832366Author Ira S NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend PublishingWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063157149Author Bernard CornwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439172544Author Jayne Anne PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590510797Author Leslie EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

In 1867, an American merchant ship, the Rover, sank off the coast of southern Taiwan. Fourteen sailors reached the shore, where almost all were killed by indigenous people. In retaliation, the United States launched two disastrous military operations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062320445Author Sally Cabot GunningFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 285gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343172Author Clarissa ThomassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501160493Author Laurie NotaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...