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Lucille Ball, Hollywood’s first true media mogul, stars in this “bold” (The Boston Globe), “boisterous novel” (The New Yorker) with a thrilling love story at its heart—from the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...

From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen...

Running from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of...

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a...

"An eye-opening tale of all the money, sex and drugs washing through the tech world, from someone who has lived it." - Jim Edwards, Editor-in-Chief, Business Insider UK Think of the greatest tech company in the world. Imagine getting a job there. Picture the perks: free gourmet food, free...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible “Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman—already a...

The first novel in a dazzling new trilogy about the women of the Old Testament by internationally bestselling author Marek Halter. The story of Sarah--and of history itself--begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense...

Anna und Armand haben den Zweiten Weltkrieg überlebt und ziehen gemeinsam nach Südfrankreich - doch fünf Jahre später packt Anna ihre Sachen und verlässt Armand. Nie wieder sprechen sie miteinander, nie offenbaren sie jemandem, was sie so unwiederbringlich entzweit hat.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From Kathryn Harrison, one of America’s most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire. St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River...

“Beautiful and haunting . . . one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston Globe SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco...

Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother's photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman's pursuit of her dreams. She took exquisite photographs, but her heart was the true...

In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . . There are...

In the tradition of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone comes a sweeping historical love story and a portrait of an age. Vienna Nocturne is a deeply moving debut novel that brings to life two extraordinary figures—a thirty-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a...

Right on the heels of his New York Times bestselling and National Award-nominated novel, Drop City, T.C. Boyle has crafted an even more captivating tale with memorable characters and a rollicking plot that will delight both his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. The Inner Circle is a...

Noah Klieger war 13, als er sich während der deutschen Besatzung Belgiens einer jüdischen Untergrundorganisation anschloss und half, jüdische Kinder in die Schweiz zu schmuggeln. Noah Klieger war 16, als er im Morgengrauen als Häftling in Auschwitz ankam, bei Minusgraden. Noah Klieger hatte noch nie geboxt, als am Tag seiner Ankunft im Konzentrationslager gefragt wurde, ob sich Boxer unter den Häftlingen befänden und seine Hand nach oben ging.

This stunning novel plunges into the tumultuous life of screen icon Katharine Hepburn, a star whose fierce independence, passionate spirit, and fluid sexuality shattered Hollywood’s rules and redefined what it meant to be a woman in film. “A riveting and unputdownable journey through fame...

A sweeping, sensational novel of America’s first “It Girl,” whose dramatic journey to center stage echoes through the decades—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York’s streets teem with change...

Runau, 1905: Die junge Helene wird gezwungen, den gewalttätigen Großbauern Otto zu heiraten. Ihre Ehe ist vom Patriarchat geprägt. Auch ihre Söhne müssen für den Vater schuften wie Arbeitssklaven. Als Otto im Ersten Weltkrieg fällt, versorgt die sechsfache Mutter den Bauernhof allein. Mit ihrer großen Liebe, dem Grenzsoldaten Ewald, bekommt sie sechs weitere Kinder. Bald aber stellt der erstarkende Nationalsozialismus die Familie vor eine Zerreißprobe. Helene verliert durch Unfälle, den Zweiten Weltkrieg und ein grausames Kriegsverbrechen sechs ihrer zwölf Kinder.

Runau, 1905: Die junge Helene wird gezwungen, den gewalttätigen Großbauern Otto zu heiraten. Ihre Ehe ist vom Patriarchat geprägt. Auch ihre Söhne müssen für den Vater schuften wie Arbeitssklaven. Als Otto im Ersten Weltkrieg fällt, versorgt die sechsfache Mutter den Bauernhof allein. Mit ihrer großen Liebe, dem Grenzsoldaten Ewald, bekommt sie sechs weitere Kinder. Bald aber stellt der erstarkende Nationalsozialismus die Familie vor eine Zerreißprobe. Helene verliert durch Unfälle, den Zweiten Weltkrieg und ein grausames Kriegsverbrechen sechs ihrer zwölf Kinder.