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  • The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

    The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream. Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake...
  • The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King

    The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are caught up in a case that turns intensely personal, shining light on a past that even Holmes himself did not suspectAfter their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending some time getting to know Holmes' son, the artist Damian Adler, and his family...
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  • Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

    Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    From award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman’s bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn’t belong. Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised alongside her white half sister―until her father suddenly dies...
  • Chasing Moonlight by Raven St. Pierre

    Chasing Moonlight by Raven St. Pierre

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bestselling author, Raven St. Pierre, returns with the third standalone in a breathtaking family saga filled with love, acceptance, and adversity. Jesse Peterson lives by the sweat of his brow and doesn’t hold back from defending his beliefs—even if that means getting dirty and breaking a few noses in the process...
  • A Royal Visit to Victory Street by Pam Howes

    A Royal Visit to Victory Street by Pam Howes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From Amazon charts bestseller Pam Howes comes an emotional and uplifting saga about the power of family and a community trying to rebuild their lives after the terrible war that nearly destroyed everything…1956, Liverpool. With the shadow of the war looming over them and bomb craters littering the surrounding streets, hope feels far away for the residents of Victory Street...
  • All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

    All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping).In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Birdpaints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfillment. But it's a lie...
  • When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel

    When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel, a beautifully repackaged and updated edition of “one of her best” (RT Book Reviews) historical novels.Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad walked out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when she was eighteen, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away as well...
  • Island in the East by Jenny Ashcroft

    Island in the East by Jenny Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Set in 1890s and 1940s Singapore, the stunning Island in the East is a story of love, sisterly rivalry and the true cost of betrayal. Vivid, authentic and utterly beautiful, it's the perfect read for fans of Victoria Hislop, Fiona McIntosh and Kate Morton. 1897: twenty-year-old identical twins, Harriet and Mae, born from a scandalous affair, have spent their lives slighted by gossips...
  • Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas

    Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A spellbinding story of forbidden love, spanning three continents and three decades. Set against the Independence struggles of two British colonies, Of Marriageable Age is ultimately a story of personal triumph against a brutal fate, brought to life by a multicultural cast of characters:Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in the Raj...
  • The Musician by Tess Thompson

    The Musician by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fiona Barnes has a secret. One so big she's afraid it will destroy everything she holds dear. Not even her beloved music can save her.Li Wu has fought prejudice his entire life. But he's always felt safe and protected within the fierce love of the Barnes family. If only the object of his desire were free to be his, all would be well...
  • Catching Moondrops by Jennifer Erin Valent

    Catching Moondrops by Jennifer Erin Valent

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jessilyn Lassiter no longer has to convince people she's not a child. Having just turned 19 in the summer of 1938, her love for Luke Talley has never been more real. And Luke is finally beginning to care for her in the way she's always dreamed of...
  • At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by Alli Parker

    At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by Alli Parker

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese war bride and a love that changed a nation forever. Gordon Parker is just an eager eighteen-year-old Australian boy desperate to fight for his country, and Nobuko 'Cherry' Sakuramoto is a sixteen-year-old girl struggling to survive in Japan in the aftermath of World War II...
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    multicultural  historical  war  australia  japan  oceania
  • Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss

    Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can just as easily take it away.Wagadhaany is one of the lucky ones. She survives...
  • Wedding Bells on Victory Street: Gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 saga fiction (The Bryant Sisters) by Pam Howes

    Wedding Bells on Victory Street: Gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 saga fiction (The Bryant Sisters) by Pam Howes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From Amazon bestseller Pam Howes comes a heartbreaking World War Two novel about a young woman trying to make the best of history’s darkest hour. Is a happy ever after impossible?Liverpool, 1943. For Bella Rogers, life is looking up...
  • The Hour Before Dawn: A sweeping, emotional tale of love, loss and secrets across time by Sara MacDonald

    The Hour Before Dawn: A sweeping, emotional tale of love, loss and secrets across time by Sara MacDonald

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A rich, multi-generational saga, sweeping from Singapore to New Zealand. Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Rosanna Ley. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with the young daughter of his captain. Although she is determined to become a ballerina, Fleur falls deeply for David and abandons her aspirations to become an army wife and mother...
  • In His Father's Footsteps by Danielle Steel

    In His Father's Footsteps by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this powerful novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells the story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success. When U.S...
  • Too Deep for Tears by Kathryn Lynn Davis

    Too Deep for Tears by Kathryn Lynn Davis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A rare, exquisite novel of courage and passion, betrayal and love. Dashing English diplomat Charles Kittridge relished the abundant pleasures of the world...and in his far-flung wanderings, he left behind three remarkable daughters: Ailsa Rose, a beauty of the Scottish highlands, endowed with her father's lust for adventure. She betrays her heart to follow the one man who promises her the world...
  • Child Bride by Jennifer Smith Turner

    Child Bride by Jennifer Smith Turner

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. She is fascinated with the prospect of being an independent person—but when she turns sixteen, she is married off and brought to the city of Boston as a bride. Nell is a shy girl who must quickly learn how to be a wife and mother...
  • No Honour by Awais Khan

    No Honour by Awais Khan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A young woman defies convention in a small Pakistani village, with devastating results for her and her family. A stunning, immense beautiful novel about courage, family and the meaning of love, when everything seems lost… In sixteen-year-old Abida’s small Pakistani village, there are age-old rules to live by, and her family’s honour to protect...
  • Women in War by Erica Brown, Lizzie Lane

    Women in War by Erica Brown, Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Previously published as 'East of India' by Erica Brown1939 - IndiaWhen headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her father in a flamboyant display of disrespect and dares to dance with her two local best friends at a public party.Her father, local official, Roland Frederick Burton is furious...
  • Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King

    Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL •  NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMESLaurie R. King’s novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are critically acclaimed and beloved by readers for the author’s adept interplay of history and adventure...
  • The Fancy by Mercedes Keyes

    The Fancy by Mercedes Keyes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The slave trader, "fancy" dealer was saving the best for last, for a special auction. However, at hearing how close he'd come to losing his mother - his priorities, his plan shifted. Dr. Quinton Thaddeus Caine had saved his mother's life - for this deed, the young surgeon deserved the best that he could give in compensation. A gift - the best - a Fancy...
  • A River Too Deep by Sydney Tooman Betts

    A River Too Deep by Sydney Tooman Betts

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the Spring of 1817, Alcy Callen and her father visit a step-uncle they have long presumed dead; but instead of enjoying a loving reunion, they are plunged into treachery and deceit. Nothing is as they expected and little is what it seems. Even the man who helps her escape is not the reliable suitor he appears...
  • The Lost Pearl by Emily Madden

    The Lost Pearl by Emily Madden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sweeping family saga of long lost love, for readers of Fiona McIntosh and Mary-Anne O'Connor. From Pearl Harbor to the shores of Sydney, a family secret that spans generations could unite a family – or destroy it...
  • The Lost Pearl by Emily Madden

    The Lost Pearl by Emily Madden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sweeping family saga of long lost love, for readers of Fiona McIntosh and Mary-Anne O'Connor.From Pearl Harbor to the shores of Sydney, a secret that spans generations could unite a family - or destroy it...
  • A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf

    A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    A breathtaking, romantic debut novel by Tammye Huf. Based on the true story of the author’s great-great grand-parents, A More Perfect Union is an epic love story between an Irish immigrant and a black slave, set in the pre-Civil War Southern state of Virginia in 1849 when inter-racial marriage was illegal...
  • A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf

    A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Inspired by true events, A More Perfect Union is an epic story of love and courage, desperation and determination, and three people whose lives are inescapably entwined…Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape the famine in Ireland, only to face anti-immigrant prejudice...
  • By Way of the Wilderness by Gilbert Morris

    By Way of the Wilderness by Gilbert Morris

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The always-compelling story of Moses, told as only master storyteller Gilbert Morris can deliver it. Readers will feel the sand beneath their feet as they follow Moses through his days in Pharaoh's court, his exile in the desert in Midian, his return to Egypt and confrontation with Pharaoh, to leading his people into the desert on their quest to reach the Promised Land. Lions of Judah Book 5...
  • Heartbreak Hotel by Kenya Wright

    Heartbreak Hotel by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is a steamy childhood friends to lovers romance set in the small beach town of Key West.___________“I would be your death wish. You should guard your heart when I’m around.”___________Yasmine’s world breaks apart when she finds her fiancé in bed with another...
  • The Duke’s Untamed Desire by Amy Jarecki

    The Duke’s Untamed Desire by Amy Jarecki

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He's the most notorious rake in London...Though he uses the reputation to his advantage, the exotic Duke of Evesham is misunderstood and mysterious. He sidles around societal rules, especially when it comes to pursuing a wife. Though when he sets his sights on Lady Georgiana, the rules find a way of bending on their own accord...
  • Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

    Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be — she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco — until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children.The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter's life by giving her away...
  • Silent Honor by Danielle Steel

    Silent Honor by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The doyenne of bestseller lists weaves another romantic story in her 38th novel, a tale of separated families and shattered lives set against one of the most morally reprehensible events in U.S. history: the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II...
  • Don't Wake a Sleeping Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Sara Adrien

    Don't Wake a Sleeping Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Sara Adrien

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    The Widow of Whitehall will get them in the game, but what are they willing to put on the line for a match?Ada must marry soon or else she’ll lose access to the trust money her father left her. Can she gamble as Mrs...
  • Chasing the Butterfly by Jayme H. Mansfield

    Chasing the Butterfly by Jayme H. Mansfield

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From a vineyard in the south of France to the sophisticated city of Paris, Ella Moreau searches for the hope and love she lost as a young girl when her mother abandoned the family. Ella's journey is portrayed through a heartbroken child, a young woman's struggles during the tumultuous times surrounding World War II, and as a reflective adult...
  • Blink by Rick R. Reed

    Blink by Rick R. Reed

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life can change in the blink of an eye. That's a truth Andy Slater learns as a young man in 1982, taking the Chicago 'L' to work every morning. Andy's life is laid out before him: a good job, marriage to his female college sweetheart, and the white picket fence existence he believes in. But when he sees Carlos Castillo for the first time, Carlos’s dark eyes and Latin appeal mesmerize him...
  • Whisper of the Moon Moth by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

    Whisper of the Moon Moth by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From the author of The Color of Secrets and The Woman on the Orient Express comes a poignant novel inspired by the Hollywood legend—and the secrets of—actress Merle Oberon, famous for playing Cathy to Laurence Olivier’s Heathcliff in the film Wuthering Heights. For nineteen-year-old Estelle Thompson, going to the cinema is more than a way to pass the time…it’s a way out...
  • Caught by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Caught by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He wants forever. She just wants his body. Neither of them want to give in. Mitch Harris has it all. As a successful music manager, who isn’t hard to look at, he has women falling at his feet. And that’s just the way he likes it. For years he’s laughed as, one by one, his buddies have found their women and settled down. He vowed it would never happen to him...
  • Forgotten by Jeanne Hardt

    Forgotten by Jeanne Hardt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rumor has it, the war is about to end. But that doesn’t stop Billy Denton from running away to enlist. He’s lived a privileged life on the Wellesley estate, where slavery is seen as a necessary means to operate their textile production. Believing no human should be enslaved by another, he’s willing to fight—and even die—to change the future of the woman who holds his heart...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  historical  length-long
  • Die Without You by Christine Gray

    Die Without You by Christine Gray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “So, he gives me away like a harlot…as your property.”My voice cracks under the verdict dealt me. Hojo searches my face. He can clearly read my emotions upon my depressed face. “You are not my property, Kylenna.”Hope? I lick my dried, salty tears from my lips. “Then, it is as it was with my Mother when Musa sent her to your lands,” I begin...
  • Red Blossom in Snow by Jeannie Lin

    Red Blossom in Snow by Jeannie Lin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    The next installment of the Lotus Palace mystery series. Magistrate Li Chen and celebrated courtesan Song Yi become entangled in a murder investigation when an outsider to the Pingkang li is found strangled in a pleasure house. As they search for the truth, the secrets they uncover turn out to be their own...
  • A Dangerous Game by Victoria Vale

    A Dangerous Game by Victoria Vale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Welcome to The Perdition Club, where games are played for the highest of stakes …Jonas Thacker wouldn’t be caught dead in The Perdition Club, a godforsaken den of iniquity where sinners go to play. However, notorious rakehell and Jonas’ former schoolmate, Derek Dryden, has begun courting his sister...
  • Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

    Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers.Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy...
  • Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories by Damilare Kuku

    Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories by Damilare Kuku

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The anti-rom-com debut collection that took Nigeria by storm, featuring twelve outrageous, bold, and laugh-out-loud stories about the perils and pitfalls of dating men in Lagos, from a rising star of Nollywood. One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off...
  • Death Comes to Bath by Catherine Lloyd

    Death Comes to Bath by Catherine Lloyd

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    On a visit to Bath, Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lady Lucy Kurland discover that the English spa town is not beneficial to everyone's health . . . After Sir Robert's injury from the battle of Waterloo begins troubling him again, his wife Lucy insists they relocate from the village of Kurland St. Mary to Bath, along with her sister Anna, so that Robert can take the waters and recover...
  • Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors

    Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, overwhelmed with grief over the death of his beloved wife, Mumatz Mahal, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love...
  • No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

    No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future…when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son’s birth—from the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street...
  • Tsura by Heather Anastasiu

    Tsura by Heather Anastasiu

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In WWII Romania, Tsura, a young Roma (gypsy) woman, has no choice but to leave her lover, Andrei, behind and marry the grandson of the man whose basement she and Andrei have been hiding in. An epic WWII saga, for fans of The Bronze Horseman and Outlander. “It won’t be a real marriage.” Tsura put her hands to Andrei’s shirt and pulled him in close. “I’ll never share a bed with him. I love you...
  • Room Service by Rochelle Alers

    Room Service by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry heart of New Orleans . . .   New Yorker Jasmine Washington had a successful interior design business, a high-powered marriage, and a chance at motherhood—until her perfect husband betrayed her big-time...
  • Death Brings a Shadow by Rosemary Simpson

    Death Brings a Shadow by Rosemary Simpson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries…Investigators Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter discover all that glitters is not gold in the Gilded Age, whether on the island of Manhattan or an island off the coast of Georgia …   DEATH BRINGS A SHADOW   In spring 1889,...
  • Zoe by T.A. Ford

    Zoe by T.A. Ford

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Cinderella fairytale for all time, Zoé takes the reader beyond color and shares the true nature of humanity and passion in a page-turning tale that will keep you reading-and believing that true love knows no bounds...
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