Serena
By: Ron Rash
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash…
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1. Girl in Hyacinth Blue
By: Susan Vreeland
3.74
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to view a painting he has kept … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Work is love made plain, whether man’s work or woman’s work."-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue
"I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is."-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue
"No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work."-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue
"The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we bee…"-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue
2. Mary, Bloody Mary (Young Royals, #1)
By: Carolyn Meyer
3.81
Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The story of Mary Tudor's childhood is a classic fairy tale: A princess who is to inherit the thron… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Under the Wide and Starry Sky
By: Nancy Horan
3.61
Format: 474 pages, Hardcover
The passionate and turbulent story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fan… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"Your life doesn't belong to just you."-Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
"But the stories had made him different, too. They had shaped his appetite, his moral prejudices, who he was."-Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
"It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out."-Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
"Writers should find out where joy resides and give it a voice. Every bright word or picture is a piece of pleasure set afloat. The reader catches it, and he goes on his way rejoicing. It's the busine…"-Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
4. The Weight of This World
By: David Joy
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a s… read more
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- southern
- fiction
5. Where All Light Tends to Go
By: David Joy
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bonem… read more
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- southern
- fiction
6. Cataloochee
By: Wayne Caldwell
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
"A brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America." -Charles Frazier… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Cage of Stars
By: Jacquelyn Mitchard
4.48
Format: 356 pages,
12-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
8. Through a Glass Darkly (Tamworth Saga #2)
By: Karleen Koen
3.43
Format: 375 pages,
Karleen Koen's sweeping saga contains unforgettable characters consumed with passion: the extraordi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Last Ballad
By: Wiley Cash
4.67
Format: 121 pages, ebook
The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Homereturns with this eagerly awaited… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
10. Blood Water Paint
By: Joy McCullough
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut novel based on the true story of the iconic painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. Her mo… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. The Fortune Hunter
By: Daisy Goodwin
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. B… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
12. Serena
By: Ron Rash
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
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14. This Dark Road to Mercy
By: Wiley Cash
3.50
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
The critically-acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home returns… read more
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15. The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777
By: Kristiana Gregory
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eleven-year-old Abigail Jane Stewart records the despair and hope of the difficult winter between 1… read more
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16. His Forefathers and Mick
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more
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"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
17. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
By: K. Ritz
4.33
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
18. Isabella Warrior Queen
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward III and t… read more
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- historical
"Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of a…"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
19. Victor's Blessing
By: Barbara Sontheimer
4.34
Format: 582 pages, Paperback
Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
20. When These Mountains Burn
By: David Joy
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail hi… read more
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- literary fiction
- southern
- fiction
"It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over."-David Joy, When These Mountains Burn
21. The Line That Held Us
By: David Joy
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accide… read more
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- literary fiction
- southern
- fiction
"What I'm saying is that it's easy to take the high road so long as there aren't any stakes. But the minute you've got something to lose, a man'll do all sorts of things."-David Joy, The Line That Held Us
"You still can't see it and it's right in front of your eyes. It's the reason we're gathered here. The only reason we're here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us."-David Joy, The Line That Held Us
