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From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas comes the story of a Confederate widow looking to start her life over and the Yankee captain on a mission to uncover dark secrets still lurking in the South after the war. Maggie, born and bred in Texas, has inherited a sprawling house that sits atop untold secrets. Grayson, hell-bent on hunting down traitors, is the last thing she expected to find. Can their passion and love overcome the many deceptions and deceits as they both try to rebuild in the aftermath of a war that tore a country apart?

Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son. The third book in Achebe's "African Trilogy", following Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God is the story of Ezeulu, the chief priest of several villages who wrestles with colonial powers as he butts heads with Christian missionaries dispatched to the area.

When Graham Woodard is hired to restore part of a previously lost silent horror film—Angel of the Abyss—the last thing he expects is the first in a series of murders clearly meant to keep it lost. With one-time friend Jake Maitland in tow, the two must now navigate the treacherous enigma that is the lost film, while piecing together the story of the film's ill-fated starlet, Grace Baron, who vanished in 1926.

A sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić about power, identity, and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul. Omer Pasha Latas is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a common resentment of faraway Ottoman rule. Omer is the seraskier, commander in chief of the Sultan's armies, and as the book begins he arrives from Istanbul, dispatched to bring Sarajevo's landowners to heel, a task that he accomplishes with his usual ferocity and efficiency.

*Moving On* anticipates McMurtry's *Terms of Endearment* and explores the emotional journey of a young woman against a sprawling metropolis in 1970s Texas. Larry McMurtry's *Moving On*, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long been considered a defining tale of "monumental honesty" worthy of great attention (*New York Times*). Preceding *Terms of Endearment* by five years, it is essential reading for anyone who appreciates the inherent genius of McMurtry's late twentieth-century fiction.

Printemps 1945. La guerre touche à sa fin. Michel Lestienne, ancien pilote héroïque de l'escadrille Normandie-Niemen, revient d'Alger où il était en mission pour le compte du Gouvernement Provisoire. Il retrouve un pays dans lequel les Communistes tirent de nombreuses ficelles et où la surveillance américaine est permanente. Reçu par De Gaulle qui s'inquiète des intentions hégémoniques des USA, Lestienne reçoit l'ordre d'infiltrer l'entourage du très américanophile Jean Monnet, conseiller du Président Roosevelt et futur commissaire au plan.

Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like navigating a monkey bridge—a bridge built of spindly bamboo, used by peasants for centuries—the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present, East and West, in telling two interlocking stories: one, the Vietnamese version of the classic immigrant experience in America, told by a young girl; and the second, a dark tale of betrayal, political intrigue, family secrets, and revenge—her mother's tale.

Février 1973. Santiago du Chili. Les élections approchent et les tensions politiques sont de plus en plus fortes, tandis que le président Allende tente désespérément de repousser les manœuvres de la CIA pour le renverser. Dans une ville où l'atmosphère est devenue étouffante, où les grèves et les violences se succèdent, un homme part, seul, à la recherche d'une femme qu'il a aimée. Cet homme, c'est Sébastien Desboz, le propriétaire du Bar du Suisse, situé près du palais présidentiel de la Moneda, un bar fréquenté par des employés et des fonctionnaires du quartier.

This is the third of Genet's prose works to be published in the United States, following Our Lady of the Flowers (1963) and The Thief's Journal (1964). It is, however, Genet's second novel, having been written in La Santé and Tourelles prisons in 1943, directly after Our Lady of the Flowers. Like that first work, Miracle of the Rose was written in the solitude of a prison cell, on the pieces of white paper the penal authorities furnish the convicts for making paper bags. The work is set in the State prison of Fontevrault.

Beloved author Wayne Johnston returns to the territory of his #1 national bestseller The Colony of Unrequited Dreams with this sweeping tale of ambition, remorse and hope. A World Elsewhere has all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's most beloved and acclaimed novels: outsiders yearning for acceptance, dreams that threaten to overpower their makers, and unlikely romance. It is an astounding work of literature that questions the loyalties of friends, family and the heart. At the centre of this story is a mystery: the suspected murder of a child. This sweeping tale immerses us in St.