The Madonna of the Mountains
By: Elise Valmorbida
3.59
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An epic and inspiring novel about one woman's survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside, opp…
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1. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
By: Roger Deakin
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more
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- travel
2. Miller's Valley
By: Anna Quindlen
3.89
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
For generations the Millers have lived in Miller’s Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with in… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with someone else that just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's like making Christmas co…"-Anna Quindlen, Miller's Valley
3. Earthly Joys (Tradescant, #1)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.17
Format: 251 pages,
Whether he is nurturing a single rare seedling into a blossoming tree or planning acres of exquisit… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. The End We Start From
By: Megan Hunter
4.12
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a wom… read more
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- fiction
5. The Dressmaker's War
By: Mary Chamberlain
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, powerful, compulsively readable work of historical fiction: the story of a brilliant En… read more
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- unfinished
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Such a Long Journey
By: Rohinton Mistry
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.' 'Good, good. But one question. Will you be able to draw enough to cover 300 feet? I mean, do you know enough differ…"-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
"But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pavement project he had yet undertaken, it made him restless. Over the years, a precise cycle had ent…"-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
7. A Question of Belief (Commissario Brunetti, #19)
By: Donna Leon
4.15
Format: None pages,
Donna Leon's best-selling series featuring the principled, warmhearted Venetian Commissario Guido B… read more
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8. When We Meet Again
By: Kristin Harmel
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Emily thinks she's lost everything...until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most i… read more
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9. Auschwitz Lullaby
By: Mario Escobar
4.23
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1943 Germany, Helene is just about to wake up her children to go to school when a group of polic… read more
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Sometimes we have to lose everything to find what is most important. When life robs us of what we thought we could not live without and leaves us standing naked before reality, the essential things t…"-Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby
10. The Book of Fire
By: Christy Lefteri
3.83
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches ch… read more
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- cultural
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. De onzichtbaren
By: Frank Nellen
3.88
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
Kiev, eind jaren tachtig. Het eens zo machtige Sovjetimperium wankelt. Tijdens een roerige debatavo… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
12. Return to Valetto
By: Dominic Smith
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting o… read more
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- italy
- historical
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Susan is the opposite,"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"The bell ringer’s green walnut liqueur was famous in Valetto for its ability to strip paint and dignity."-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"I read aloud from my phone. “‘A cappuccino with low-quality milk … the only good things is the kindness of the bartenders…’"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"Was this where my fascination for documented history came from? From a family so afraid of earthly erasure that they couldn’t discard the transcript of ordering two pounds of prosciutto on June 15, 1…"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
13. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The Gardener
By: Salley Vickers
3.57
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmother… read more
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- fiction
15. A Traitor in Whitehall (Parisian Orphan, #1)
By: Julia Kelly
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Julia Kelly, internationally bestselling author of The Last Dance of the Debutante, comes the … read more
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- world war ii
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. Canary Girls
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more
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- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. Everything Under
By: Daisy Johnson
3.51
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than… read more
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- fiction
"Death has worn you smooth as a stone."-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
"The understanding pity of others is a hole."-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
"Anything can be lost if you try hard enough."-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
"Forgetting is, I think, a form of protection."-Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
19. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
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- fiction
20. The Teacher
By: Gemma Rogers
3.92
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
It was supposed to be a fresh start. A move to a new town for me and my family. I’d been offered… read more
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- fiction
21. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
By: Helen Simonson
3.96
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
22. The Stolen Child
By: Ann Hood
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more
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- italy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
23. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
By: Rebecca Frankel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Best History Books of 202… read more
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- world war ii
- historical
- war
24. The House on Biscayne Bay
By: Chanel Cleeton
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and presen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I think it did. He was quite staggered by the place. Then again, Vizcaya tends to have that effect. Is the home that grand? It Is. Vizcaya has brought the Mediterranean to Florida."-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
"I like to think of the houses I build as having their own personalities. Oh, there's the people who are their custodians to consider, of course, a symbiosis in the relationship between the house and …"-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
25. Seven Steeples
By: Sara Baume
3.53
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more
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- cultural
- fiction
"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples
26. Every Time We Say Goodbye (Jane Austen Society, #3)
By: Natalie Jenner
3.58
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant nov… read more
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- italy
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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- italy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
28. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. The Madonna of the Mountains
By: Elise Valmorbida
3.59
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An epic and inspiring novel about one woman's survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside, opp… read more
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- italy
- cultural
- unfinished
- travel
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- italian literature
- historical fiction
30. The Valley at the Centre of the World
By: Malachy Tallack
3.79
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
Set against the rugged west coast of Shetland, in a community faced with extinction, The Valley at … read more
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31. Ankomst
By: Gøhril Gabrielsen
3.39
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Seabirds in northern Norway share the parenting of chicks equally. Even in the twenty-four-hour dar… read more
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