New York Times bestselling author Paige Shelton returns with the next installment of The Scottish Bookshop Mystery series, The Stolen Letter Delaney Nichols is confident she's doing what she loves - case in point, just one day...
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Author:Stegner, WallaceSummary:A retired literary agent revisits his journals from a trip he took to his mother's birthplace some years before. His memories reveal that he has been less of a mere spectator through life than he had thought.
- Author:Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
The Solitary Envoy begins the glorious Heirs of Acadia series of historical novels set in the early days of the American Republic. Erica Langston's comfortable life in Georgetown is threatened when the British invade. Soon she must...
- Author:Vérant, SamanthaSummary:
French-born American chef Sophie Valroux had one dream: To be part of the 1% of female chefs running a Michelin-starred restaurant. From spending summers with her grandmother, who taught her the power of cooking and food, to attending...
- Author:Morgan, Jessica, Cocks, HeatherSummary:
American Bex Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it's adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall,...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Isabel Dalhousie's life is thrown for a few loops when her cousin Mimi arrives from Dallas with her husband Joe. Through Mimi and Joe, Isabel meets Texas hotshot Tom Bruce, who is about to marry someone Isabel suspects of gold-digging....
- Author:Jenkins, Charles RobertSummary:
In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most...
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Author:James, HenrySummary:Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts's proud...
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Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:An American missionary family lands in the village of Kilanga in the Congo in 1959, and the cultural confrontation begins immediately. The mother and four daughters react to their new environment, the villagers respond to their new...
- Author:Berry, SteveSummary:
When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. In his...
- Author:Lester, NatashaSummary:
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress comes a World War II novel that spans continents and crosses generations as an American soldier and an enterprising Vogue photographer brave war-torn France to help a lost...
- Author:Jay, GeraldSummary:
When ruthless assassin Klaus Reiner is hired to kill an American industrialist vacationing in France, he doesn't count on three tourists getting caught in the crossfire. And he certainly doesn't count on any trouble from an aging yet...
- Author:Meier, AndrewSummary:
A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country--but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders.
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Bookseller Delaney Nichols befriends a Loch Ness monster enthusiast; when he stands accused of murder she'll do whatever it takes to learn who the killer is - and whether Nessie herself is really lurking in the Scottish waters....
- Author:Thor, BradSummary:
A novel of political intrigue and international terrorism with an ex-Navy SEAL as the hero who risks his life to find the culprits in a sinister plot.
- Author:Bohjalian, ChrisSummary:
A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant. "The best possible combination of Hemingway and...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Mma Ramotswe's attention is focused on a pesky disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school--while Grace Makutsi adjusts to wedded bliss and the famed Clovis Andersen arrives in Botswana looking for more than bush tea.
- Author:St. George, HarperSummary:
Tall, dark, and brooding-to say that American Maxwell Crenshaw stood out in the glittering ballrooms of London is an understatement. He vowed never to set foot in England again, but when a summons from his father along with an ultimatum...
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Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:An American youth in 1930s Mexico City, Harrison Shepherd works for artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and their houseguest, Russian exile Lev Trotsky. Returning to the United States, Shepherd becomes a bestselling author, but his...
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Author:Snyder, CarrieSummary:Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book Juliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua's post-revolutionary...
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