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Reid’s lush tale follows film legend Evelyn Hugo as she unveils the truth of her glamorous, scandal‑ridden life to an unlikely biographer, revealing the intersecting fates of Hollywood’s biggest star and a struggling reporter.

Agatha Christie’s 1939 mystery, first titled Ten Little Niggers, revolves around a deadly puzzle on an isolated island, where a group of millionaires is killed one by one. It was later published as And Then There Were None.

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks follows the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were taken in 1951 without her consent and later became the first immortal human cell line, HeLa, driving major scientific breakthroughs while raising questions of ethics, race, and medical exploitation.

William E. Dodd, America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, arrives in Berlin in 1933 to chronicle the early rise of Hitler—and the diplomatic tightrope his nation must navigate.

Emma Donoghue’s debut novel follows a French burlesque dancer who, after a murder in 1876 San Francisco, seeks justice for her friend amid heat, smallpox and fierce class tensions.

An American college girl in 1947 discovers her belated quest to uncover the fate of her vanished French cousin during WWI, leading her to the shadowy Alice Network where a former spy haunted by betrayal seeks vengeance.

Nicholas Meyer’s Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The Seven‑Per‑Cent Solution, imagines a collaboration between Holmes and Sigmund Freud while exploring Holmes’s cocaine addiction, Moriarty’s identity, and a diabolic conspiracy that threatens millions.

A concise historical exploration of Mary Boleyn, the lesser-known sister of Anne, set within the Tudor court of 1508–1543.

Gothic retelling of Jane Eyre set in early 19th-century London, where a woman traumatized by her aunt and a cruel schoolmaster turns to vengeance and becomes a governess amid dark secrets and a possible serial killer.

Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl Markham is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships. Beryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it's the safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl's truest self and her fate: to fly.

Lizzie Borden faces murder accusations in 1892 after her father and stepmother vanish, yet she is acquitted—leaving the family’s dark secrets untold.

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A Stone for Danny Fisher follows a Brooklyn teenager turned boxer as he battles poverty, anti‑Semitic prejudice, and the seedy underworld of Depression‑era Manhattan while seeking hope, redemption, and a place to belong.

In a supernatural reimagining of the infamous 1892 Borden murders, the novel explores not just who killed Andrew and Abby Borden, but the chilling forces behind the act.

With a hit show on the Disney Channel and a movie that topped the box office charts, Lizzie McGuire is the girl adored by millions across the country. She's full of personality, she's got fabulous style, and she somehow manages to survive every embarrassing situation that a girl in junior high could possibly face. Read what others have to say about Lizzie and how they really feel about the crazy world of friends, parents, popularity contests, and crushes that comes along with junior high. Inside you'll also find fashion, hair, and make-up tips, a biography of Hilary Duff, and advice on everything from knowing who your true friends are to putting up with the fam!

In the 1920s, 28‑year‑old Hadley Richardson meets Ernest Hemingway in Chicago, marries him, and together they become Hollywood’s golden couple in Paris, navigating self‑doubt, jealousy, and literary ambition amid the expatriate scene.

Priest‑detective Sidney Chambers tackles a grim discovery in Cambridgeshire woods while delving into the 1970s psychedelic counterculture, as his friend Inspector Geordie Keating hunts a missing historic religious text.