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  • A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean

    A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller. From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a spellbinding novel about one woman’s love, loss, and courage during wartime...
  • Survive by K.E. Osborn

    Survive by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We started a war.One we thought we could win.The moment the club tried to outsmart the Militia, the battle lines had been drawn.As the brotherhood of the Houston Defiance MC, our job is to be loyal. To show respect when it’s due. There are ranks in place for a reason.Prospects will fight the system.Those we love will fall.Chaos will rule the streets of Houston...
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  • True Valor by Dee Henderson

    True Valor by Dee Henderson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    Heroes get a new meaning when you see inside their lives. Gracie is a Navy Pilot; Bruce works Air Force Pararescue. With dangerous jobs--often away from home--they write love letters. When Gracie is shot down behind enemy lines, Bruce has one mission: get her out alive...
  • Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi

    Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the spectre of Nazi Germany is growing... Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways - but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed...
  • The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

    The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    A new novel inspired by historical events: a story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its connection to her own students' lives...
  • Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams

    Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives comes another riveting novel of the Schuyler sisters—where the epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s...In the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own...
  • These Tangled Vines by Julianne MacLean

    These Tangled Vines by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale of one woman’s journey to the lush vineyards of Tuscany—and into the mysteries of a tragic family secret.If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret—even from the father who raised her...
  • Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann

    Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    In a remote, frozen corner of New Hampshire, a Navy SEAL team and the elite security experts of Troubleshooters, Incorporated are going head-to-head as fierce but friendly rivals in a raid-and-rescue training exercise...
  • The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

    The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    1959 England. Laurel Nicholson is sixteen years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London...
  • The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

    The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Love and secrets collide in Venice during WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and lasting romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and Above the Bay of Angels.Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice...
  • The Last Night in London by Karen White

    The Last Night in London by Karen White

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a story of friendship past and present, love, and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day. A captivating story of friendship, love and betrayal – and finding hope in the darkness of war.London, 1939...
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    mystery  war  historical  contemporary
  • Out of Control by Suzanne Brockmann

    Out of Control by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Savannah von Hopf has no choice. To save her uncle's life, she goes in search of Ken "WildCard" Karmody, a guy she barely knew in college who is now a military operative. She must convince him to help her deliver a cache of ransom money into the hands of terrorists halfway around the world. What she doesn't expect is to end up in WildCard's arms before she can even ask for his help...
  • Noble by Annabella Stone

    Noble by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Red Squadron is the tip of the spear in the war against global terrorism. Navy SEAL Commander, Noble Bauer, leads the JASOC Taskforce and knows his team won’t be complete until he finds a Communications Specialist. He knows just the man for the job. The only problem is can he get him to listen...
  • Across the Winding River by Aimie K. Runyan

    Across the Winding River by Aimie K. Runyan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A woman unlocks the mystery of her father’s wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Night Sky.Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max...
  • Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

    Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past. Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be...
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    mystery  war  contemporary  tearjerkers
  • Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson

    Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and eleven-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival...
  • Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson

    Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the award-winning author of Catching the Wind, which Publishers Weekly called “unforgettable” and a “must-read,” comes another gripping time-slip novel about hidden treasure, a castle, and ordinary people who resisted evil in their own extraordinary way...
  • Into the Fire by Suzanne Brockmann

    Into the Fire by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Suspense doesn't burn any brighter and desire doesn't run any deeper than when Suzanne Brockmann takes the helm, opens the throttle, and takes readers along for a breathless ride as she breaks the thrill barrier -- again and again. With Into the Fire, Brockmann lights the fuse on her most explosive story yet...
  • Breaking Point by Suzanne Brockmann

    Breaking Point by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Uncommon valor in the line of duty and unconditional devotion in the name of love are the salient qualities of the daring men and women who risk it all in the heart-pounding thrillers of New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann. Crafted with precision and power, her characters come alive with a depth of emotion few writers have achieved...
  • One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming

    One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 18 ratings
    On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.The Rev...
  • Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey

    Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go.I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks like forever is finally running out...
  • Sophie's Choice by William Styron

    Sophie's Choice by William Styron

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  war  contemporary
  • The Lake House by Kate Morton

    The Lake House by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    An abandoned house...June 1933, and sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane is preparing for her family's Midsummer Eve party at their country home, Loeanneth. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.A missing child..
  • No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

    No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    No Angel is an irresistibly sweeping saga of power, family politics, and passion-a riveting drama and a fervent love story. Celia Lytton is the beautiful and strong-willed daughter of wealthy aristocrats and she is used to getting her way...
  • The Curator's Daughter by Melanie Dobson

    The Curator's Daughter by Melanie Dobson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and--decades later--a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma.1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race...
  • The Codebreaker's Secret by Sara Ackerman

    The Codebreaker's Secret by Sara Ackerman

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker's Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America’s darkest hour.1943...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  war  historical  contemporary  suspense  military
  • The Italian Ballerina: A World War II Novel by Kristy Cambron

    The Italian Ballerina: A World War II Novel by Kristy Cambron

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A prima ballerina. Two American medics. And a young Jewish girl with no name . . . At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save Italian Jews in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events.Rome, 1943...
  • All Through the Night: A Troubleshooter Christmas by Suzanne Brockmann

    All Through the Night: A Troubleshooter Christmas by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    It's Christmastime in Boston, and this year the silver bells will be wedding bells as FBI agent Jules Cassidy ties the knot with the man of his dreams, Hollywood heartthrob Robin Chadwick. The pair plan a quiet, intimate ceremony, to be witnessed by family and close friends from the FBI, SEAL Team Sixteen, and Troubleshooters, Incorporated, including Sam Starrett and Alyssa Locke...
  • Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell Ciesielski

    Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell Ciesielski

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Ciesielski’s latest sweeping romance, an American heiress finds herself in Scotland amid the fallout of the Great War, and a wounded Scottish laird comes face-to-face with his past and a woman he never could have expected.American socialite Lily Durham is known for enjoying one moment to the next, with little regard for the consequences of her actions...
  • Flashpoint by Suzanne Brockmann

    Flashpoint by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    From unrelenting action to intense emotion, from high-stakes drama to break-neck pacing, ""New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann is a novelist who does it all. Now after her blockbuster hardcover debut, "Gone Too Far," Brockmann delivers an exciting new thriller about men and women operating where agents of the U.S...
  • Force of Nature by Suzanne Brockmann

    Force of Nature by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Hard-driving suspense and intense passion are the hallmarks of bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann's pulse-pounding thrillers. In her tales of daring, danger, courage, and desire, men and women of action fight fiercely, love deeply, and time after time raise the bar for adventure to new heights. Brockmann's latest novel is no exception...
  • The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra

    The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family’s ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer’s apprentice and calligrapher’s apprentice fall in love with their ancient crafts and with each other, dreaming of the life they will one day share...
    Categorized as:
    war  muslim  historical  south asian  contemporary  hindu
  • The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

    The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and watches as her mother speaks to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime...
    Categorized as:
    war  mystery  contemporary  suspense
  • The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

    The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine...
  • On Folly Beach by Karen White

    On Folly Beach by Karen White

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it's the personal battles of Folly Beach's residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own... To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island before reaching the great Atlantic...
    Categorized as:
    war  mystery  contemporary
  • The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley

    The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences...
  • Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell Ciesielski

    Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell Ciesielski

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Ciesielski’s latest sweeping romance, an American heiress finds herself in Scotland amid the fallout of the Great War, and a wounded Scottish laird comes face-to-face with his past and a woman he never could have expected.American socialite Lily Durham is known for enjoying one moment to the next, with little regard for the consequences of her actions...
  • The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

    The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967–68 school year in Long Island, New York. Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs...
  • A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver

    A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit.Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law...
  • Traitor by Sandra Grey

    Traitor by Sandra Grey

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book by Sandra...
    Categorized as:
    war  mystery  contemporary  christian  suspense
  • Poppy Day by Amanda Prowse

    Poppy Day by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction. Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife and What Have I Done? Ever since hairdresser Poppy Day married her childhood sweetheart, Mart, she's been deliriously happy...
    Categorized as:
    war  muslim  contemporary  historical  suspense  military
  • The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

    The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  war  contemporary
  • The Time in Between by María Dueñas

    The Time in Between by María Dueñas

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Time In Between is a word-of-mouth phenomenon that catapulted María Dueñas, a debut author, to the top of Spain’s bestseller lists. This sweeping novel, which combines the storytelling power of The Shadow of the Wind with the irresistible romance of Casablanca, moves at an unstoppable pace. Suddenly left abandoned and penniless in Algiers by her lover, Sira Quiroga forges a new identity...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  war  contemporary  suspense
  • The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore

    The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Internationally-acclaimed author Helen Dunmore follows her bestselling novel, The Siege, with a riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of post-war Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror, where the severest acts of betrayal can come from the most trusted allies...
  • The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley

    The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    An aristocratic French family, a legendary chteau, and buried secrets with the power to destroy two generations torn between duty and desire. La Cte dAzur, 1998: In the sun-dappled south of France, Emilie de la Martinires, the last of her gilded line, inherits her childhood home, a magnificent chteau and vineyard. With the property comes a mountain of debtand almost as many questions . .
    Categorized as:
    war  mystery  contemporary  suspense  military
  • The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel

    The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A baker in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, must travel to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother, and what she learns may change everything. The Sweetness of Forgetting is the book that made Kristin Harmel an international bestseller. At thirty-six , Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  war  contemporary
  • When I See You by Katherine Owen

    When I See You by Katherine Owen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She believes that love can never last, promises are usually broken, and true happiness is extremely elusive in the long run. He believes most risks are worth taking, the promises he makes can be kept, and love doesn't factor in his relationships any longer. They're both wrong. Jordan Holloway has never fully recovered from the unexpected deaths of her famous Hollywood parents...
  • Shining Through by Susan Isaacs

    Shining Through by Susan Isaacs

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    It's 1940 and Linda Voss, legal secretary extraordinaire, has a secret. She's head over heels in love with her boss, John Berringer, the pride of the Ivy League. Not that she even has a chance--he'd never take a second look at a German-Jewish girl from Queens who spends her time taking care of her faded beauty of a mother and following bulletins on the war in Europe...
  • Las huellas imborrables by Camilla Läckberg

    Las huellas imborrables by Camilla Läckberg

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The SandMan Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition"So the spirit of the universe will cease to think, and everything will cease to exist." "That is not something I care about, glory. The stars burn and fall. People live and die. Someday, even "eternity" will come to an end. I am responsible for it all the time. "" Did not you care, the king of dreams? Maybe. It may not be your responsibility...
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