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A Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick. A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal – casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone.

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. - Longlisted 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize - 'Transcends the boundaries of historical fiction' Books+Publishing. December 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign.

A story of loss, hope and redemption against impossible odds. – 'If you've read The Women by Kristin Hannah I recommend you read this one!!!!' – The Canadian Globe & Mail Bestseller – 'Extremely compelling' – Historical Novel Society – 'Alward tells this story of the wounded survivors and the people who cared for them with affecting grace' – Toronto Star. 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nora Crowell wants more than her sister's life as a wife and mother. As WWI rages across the Atlantic, she becomes a lieutenant in the Canadian Army Nursing Corps.

National Bestseller – A Woman's World Best Book of the Year. The author of the American Royals series invites you to visit 19th-century Europe amid the glamour and intrigue of the Victorian era. In this historical romance inspired by true events, three princesses struggle to find love – and end up vying for the hearts of two future kings. In the last glittering decade of European empires, courts, and kings, three young women are on a collision course with history – and with each other.

« Je viens sauver quelqu’un, se répétait-il, et maintenant qu’il se trouvait à deux heures de Prague, il sentait monter en lui une vive anxiété. » Une échappée belle de Paris à Prague, d’un studio de radio à des ruelles hostiles, d’un cachot glacé à une académie de billard, d’une école de bonnes sœurs aux bureaux obscurs de la République. Chacun des Pelletier, à son heure, devra choisir entre son intérêt et son devoir, et pour certains entre la raison du cœur et la raison d’État. Un dilemme parfois déchirant, sauf pour le chat Joseph, qui lui a choisi depuis longtemps.

By the celebrated author of Canada Reads Finalist Indian Horse, a stunning new novel that has all the timeless qualities of a classic, as it tells the universal story of a father/son struggle in a fresh, utterly memorable way, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. For male and female readers equally, for readers of Joseph Boyden, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas King, Russell Banks and general literary. Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man.

Sir Durwin must overcome a cloak-and-dagger plot to usurp the king in the final novel of the Enchanter General, a historical fantasy trilogy set in twelfth century England. King Henry is dead; Richard the Lionheart now rules England. The new king does not believe in magic, and is interested only in a crusade to recapture Jerusalem. But his crusade soon stalls, and while he is away, his brother, John, and his supposed ally, Philip of France, are conspiring to steal his kingdom.

Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions but, after suffering heartbreak, he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any thoughts of marriage. Having obtained an ambassadorial post in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sleep and wakes up suddenly transformed into a woman. Also blessed with the gift of never ageing, she embarks on adventurous travels throughout Europe and the following centuries, observing what it is like to be female.

From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy—comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure. Called "brilliant" by USA Today—Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense.

Now a Netflix Mandarin original drama. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger, a Reese's Book Club pick. Yangsze Choo's stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors.