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by James Patterson and David Ellis - Crime, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

A suspenseful thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson, that spans a century --- set in motion by the murder of Adolf Hitler's young lover by his own hand. A determined detective, Thomas Bauer, obsessively pursues Hitler --- putting Bauer’s Jewish wife and children in grave danger. A courageous journalist, Fritz Gerlich, writes story after story detailing the murder --- making Gerlich a target for Hitler’s Gestapo. An American professor, Eleanor Robbins, picks up the trail of evidence from present-day Neo-Nazis guarding the Führer’s long-held secrets to the death.

by Charlie N. Holmberg - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Owein arrives in England to marry Lady Cora of Leiningen, his dearest friend and confidante he’s known mostly through letters. However, Queen Victoria has other plans in store for the centuries-old wizard. The queen is obsessed with preserving magic, and she believes Owein is the key to pursuing her lofty ambitions. Torn from his family, his home, and his betrothed, Owein is pushed into the Queen’s League of Magicians, where he learns the Crown’s upheaval of his life is only the beginning of his problems. Meanwhile Cora must push aside her broken heart and use her own spells and resources to uncover truths the queen wants hidden. As new threats, former loves, untapped spells and even older souls than Owein collide, his next choice could be his last: forfeit his heart, body and magic to the insidious machinations of the Crown, or commit treason against it.

by Nghi Vo - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Judith Ban is on the lookout for her next identity. She’s no stranger to risk, but she’s unprepared for the secrets of New York’s Four Hundred, or for the women who build their power at the city’s heart through rituals of demonic marriage. In exchange for wealth, Judith will stand in for the missing Howard granddaughter, who was poised to make her debut when she disappeared. With Miss Iphigenia Marshall’s face stitched over her own, Judith is white, rich, and about to risk body and soul in the deadly games that determine which girls will find a match or be devoured. If she can keep her wits and her life, her reward will be a husband with undreamt-of power who will be hers to command, But to survive the season, Judith will have to seduce a storm in the shape of a man, before the Scarlet Ball.

by Annalee Newitz - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

Gardenpath is a graduate student who also happens to be an amoeba from an ancient civilization in the space between the stars. And when they turn their many eyes to researching a remote spot on one spiral arm of the galaxy, they stumble upon a mysterious planet teeming with unexpected life, language, and culture.One of these alien animals is a creature named Murtis. Unfazed when her strange visitor says she’s from the stars, Murtis takes Gardenpath into her care. Before they met Murtis, Gardenpath expected to finish their research, present their discovery, and return home to become an acclaimed scientist. But as they look into their new friend’s bizarre sensor bulbs from within the suit, they are beginning to wonder if there’s more to life than academic achievement.

by Sarah L. Hawthorn - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction

A year ago, Elle made a deal with the devil to save her sister. Now, they live on a desolate spit of land beyond Halifax harbor. Elle, as lighthouse keeper, steers unsuspecting sailors to their destruction. Those are the terms of her bargain. Liney need never know the cost. Her safety is worth every drop of blood. But a sinner's pact is not so simple. When the devil returns, demanding more --- more shipwrecks, no survivors --- Elle knows what she must do to keep Liney safe. Then a woman washes ashore. Is she a soul to be sacrificed, or part of a darker design? As Liney and the stranger grow closer, Elle faces an impossible choice: kill, and break Liney's heart, or forfeit her own soul.

by Carson Markland - Fiction, Historical Fiction

The seventh of nine children, Bobby Kennedy has long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with the same firm hand that earned him a fortune, an ambassadorship, and enough clout to plant the seeds of an American political dynasty. But when Bobby’s eldest brother, the anointed heir, dies in a wartime mission, the burden to become the first Kennedy in Congress shifts to Jack, the next in line. Bobby is forced to step up, especially as debilitating chronic pain threatens Jack’s Senate seat and aspirations to higher office. With their sights eventually set on the White House, Bobby evolves into the ruthless operative behind the scenes. But at what personal cost?

by Terrence Holt - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Pursued by a past he cannot bring himself to remember, Hal returns to his Midwestern birthplace, where he takes a job as staff physician at a veteran’s home. There, Hal finds himself the unwilling audience of his patients’ horrific stories, and descends with them into a Dantesque vision of the hell of war. Fleeing one hell for another, Hal searches the ruins of his ancestral home for clues to his own family’s descent into murder and madness. Between these two worlds, Hal finds a guide in Nell, who harbors her own secrets about both worlds. The ancient veterans compel Hal to hear what they did and what they suffered. As the veterans’ war stories grow stranger and more terrible, they lead Hal to a terrifying discovery: about his patients, his family, and his collapsing world.

by Sebastian Barry - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Born into bondage in Union-leaning northwest Tennessee, Tennyson Bouguereau spends his days working the tobacco fields of a small farm, avoiding any action that might drive his pro-Confederate neighbors to the kind of unprovoked violence that killed his mother. But in the wake of emancipation, when a gang of defeated rebels descend on the farm, his choice to defend it and the people within makes Tennyson a wanted man. He will not now have the chance to till the 10 acres he and his sister, Rosalee, have been given as their own. Instead, he must leave the relative safety of the only home he’s known, and venture into the newer world.

by Kerri Maher - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

It’s the summer of 1967, and the counterculture revolution is in full swing in San Francisco. Winnie Hartley is determined to use poetry to capture the ever-shifting world around her. Meanwhile, Winnie’s sister, Miranda, throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard. But change is in the air, and each sister will make choices that set their lives hurtling down paths neither would have imagined. Fifty years later, Dawn Hartley stays as far as possible from her family’s famous vineyard, until a work assignment requires her to research the bestselling Vineland novels penned by a famously anonymous author. Determined to discover the identity of this mysterious writer, Dawn embarks on a soul-searching journey to uncover her family’s secrets, even as she’s keeping a big one of her own.

by Chanel Cleeton - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Romance

It’s 1968, and the country waits with anticipation and excitement as America sets its sights on the Moon. And then comes the knock at the door. Joe Mitchell’s spacecraft has lost contact. He and his fellow astronauts onboard are feared to be dead. In her quiet moments, Joe’s wife, Vivian, relives their memorable story. As the investigation surrounding the lost spacecraft intensifies and the mishap is written off as an operator error, Vivian is determined to clear her husband’s name and uncover the mystery of what happened in space. When someone starts sending Vivian messages --- messages she believes only Joe could send --- she begins to wonder if their love is stronger than space and time, and she’ll do whatever it takes to bring her husband back to her.