GoodReads Rating: 4.29/5
Red Sniper is the story of a rescue mission for American POWs held captive by the Russians at the end of World War II.
For these American POWs, the war is not over. Abandoned by their
country, used as political pawns by Stalin, their last hope for getting
home again is backwoods sniper Caje Cole and a team of combat veterans
who undertake a daring rescue mission prompted by a U.S. Senator whose
grandson is among the captives. After a lovely Russian-American spy
helps plot an escape from a Gulag prison, they must face the ruthless
Red Sniper, starving wolves, and the snowy Russian taiga in a race for
freedom.
In a final encounter that tests Cole’s skills to the limit, he will
discover that forces within the U.S. government want the very existence
of these prisoners kept secret at any price.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.39/5
Two families, generations
apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant
novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale.
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger
siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River
shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital
one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in
force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee
Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that
they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize
that the truth is much darker. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel
director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together—in a
world of danger and uncertainty.
Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege,
Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal
prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But
when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a
chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions—and compels her
to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path
that will ultimately lead either to devastation or redemption.
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which
Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization,
kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the
country—Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale
reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places,
the heart never forgets where we belong.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.29/5
Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away...but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke... Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten...and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.43/5
From a Turkish writer who has
been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel
that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous
treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and
West.
In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to
Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople. There he falls
into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja–“master”–a man who is his
exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master
in Western science and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics. But
Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are
and whether, given knowledge of each other’s most intimate secrets,
they could actually exchange identities.
Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colorful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.83/5
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is
a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of
sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary
Turkish writers.
The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in
the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm.
Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because
figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a
dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know
the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of
the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or
crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy
and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.07/5
A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on
for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom
he wrote three years’ worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul.
In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of
different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and
cooked rice, to guarding a car park. He observes many different kinds of
people thronging the streets, he watches most of the city get
demolished and re-built, and he sees migrants from Anatolia making a
fortune; at the same time, he witnesses all of the transformative
moments, political clashes, and military coups that shape the country.
He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else – the
source of that strangeness in his mind. But he never stops selling boza
during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really
is.
What matters more in love: what we wish for, or what our fate has in
store? Do our choices dictate whether we will be happy or not, or are
these things determined by forces beyond our control?
A Strangeness In My Mind tries to answer these questions while
portraying the tensions between urban life and family life, and the
fury and helplessness of women inside their homes.
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Part of The Daevabad Trilogy Series – #1
GoodReads Rating: 4.27/5
Nahri
has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets
of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she
knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm
readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned
skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious
djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to
accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood
stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot,
windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the
mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises,
and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies
Daevabad, the legendary city of brass?a city to which Nahri is
irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments,
behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are
simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that
true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the
dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can
have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for .
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GoodReads Rating: 4.12/5
Told in alternating tales at once haunting and redemptive, A Tangled Mercy
is a quintessentially American epic rooted in heartbreaking true events
examining the harrowing depths of human brutality and betrayal, and our
enduring hope for freedom and forgiveness.
After the sudden death of her troubled mother, struggling Harvard
grad student Kate Drayton walks out on her lecture—and her entire New
England life. Haunted by unanswered questions and her own uncertain
future, she flees to Charleston, South Carolina, the place where her
parents met, convinced it holds the key to understanding her fractured
family and saving her career in academia. Kate is determined to unearth
groundbreaking information on a failed 1822 slave revolt—the subject of
her mother’s own research.
Nearly two centuries earlier, Tom Russell, a gifted blacksmith and
slave, grappled with a terrible choice: arm the uprising spearheaded by
members of the fiercely independent African Methodist Episcopal Church
or keep his own neck out of the noose and protect the woman he loves.
Kate’s attempts to discover what drove her mother’s dangerous
obsession with Charleston’s tumultuous history are derailed by a
horrific massacre in the very same landmark church. In the unimaginable
aftermath, Kate discovers a family she never knew existed as the city
unites with a powerful message of hope and forgiveness for the world.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.14/5
The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be
delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating
story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a
91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the
teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to
questions no one has ever thought to ask.
Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just
months from “aging out” of the child welfare system, and close to being
kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an
elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of
juvie and worse.
Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her
attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps
Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that
she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish
immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the
Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be
determined by luck and chance.
The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to
her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised
by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As
her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has
the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her
for her entire life – answers that will ultimately free them both.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful
novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected
friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out
who we are.
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The first part of the Century Trilogy which follows five
interrelated families throughout the course of the 20th century. The
first book covers notable events such as World War I, the Russian
Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. The sequel Winter of the World covers World War II and was published on September 18, 2012. The third book, Edge of Eternity, covers the Cold War and was published in 2014.
#1. Fall of Giants
#2. Winter of the World
#3. Edge of Eternity
GoodReads Rating: 4.05/5
Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.
Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes
of five intertwined families – American, German, Russian, English, and
Welsh – as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they
come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social,
political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from
civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to
the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment,
revolution – and rock and roll.
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she’s been spied on by
the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her
family for the rest of their lives.…George Jakes, the child of a
mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F.
Kennedy’s Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only
of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more
personal battle of his own.…Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator,
jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a
cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more
dangerous place than he’d imagined.…Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to
Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as
the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war,
while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from
Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw – and into history.
As always with Follett, the historical background is brilliantly
researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in
nuance and emotion. With the hand of a master, he brings us into a world
we thought we knew but now will never seem the same again.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.3/5
Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as
its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English,
Welsh—enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil,
beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil
War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the
American and Soviet atomic bombs.
Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life
engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and
heartbreak. . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a
secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the
other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific. . . . English student Lloyd
Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must
fight Communism just as hard as Fascism. . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven
American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set,
until the war transforms her life, not just once but twice, while her
cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will
affect not only this war—but the war to come.
These characters and many others find their lives inextricably
entangled as their experiences illuminate the cataclysms that marked the
century. From the drawing rooms of the rich to the blood and smoke of
battle, their lives intertwine, propelling the reader into dramas of
ever-increasing complexity.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.26/5
This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This
is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking
dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle
for votes for women.
It
is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh
coal-mining family is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts,
aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with
Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny
is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to
emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a
plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, “Fall Of Giants”
moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and
danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from
the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.
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The Outlander series focuses on 20th-century British nurse
Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds
adventure and romance with the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser.
#7.5 – The Space Between
GoodReads Rating: 4.24/5
Available for the first time
as an exclusive eBook in this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon
reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents.
Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during
the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in
combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be
the whole story. Now, in “A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows,” readers
finally learn the truth.
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Goodreads Choice 2014 Winner
GoodReads Rating: 4.5/5
It is June 1778, and the
world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing
from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first
time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire
Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that
have to be accommodated.Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the
dead, demanding to know why in his absence she married his best friend,
Lord John Grey. Lord John’s son, the ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is no
less shocked to discover that his real father is actually the newly
resurrected Jamie Fraser, and Jamie’s nephew Ian Murray discovers that
his new-found cousin has an eye for the woman who has just agreed to
marry him.
And while Claire is terrified that one of her husbands may be about to
murder the other, in the 20th century her descendants face even more
desperate turns of events. Her daughter Brianna is trying to protect her
son from a vicious criminal with murder on his mind, while her husband
Roger has disappeared into the past . . .
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GoodReads Rating: 4.43/5
The Seventh Outlander novel from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.
Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three
things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as
that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of
survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young
lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s
time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the
Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery.
What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or
happiness — not if she has anything to say.
Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the
unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history — a past that may be sneaking up
behind their own family.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.43/5
A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.
The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long
fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of
Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in
the forest.
With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the
backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his
wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world
will be fired, and the result will be independence — with those loyal to
the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a
tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports
Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his
time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.26/5
The year is 1771, and war is
coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he
must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a
time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Claire’s unique view of the future
has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge
of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way
through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will
leave their lives in ashes.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.34/5
n this breathtaking novel—rich in history and adventure—The New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Diana Gabaldon has created a work of sheer passion and brilliance….
It began at an ancient Scottish stone circle. There, a doorway, open
to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Dr. Claire Randall
survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice.
Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an
eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became a legend—a tale of
tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his
child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together
again in the American colonies. But Claire had left someone behind in
the twentieth century—their daughter, Brianna….
Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the
circle of stones and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of
her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own
future to try to change history … and to save their lives. But as
Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter
may strand her forever in the past … or root her in the place she should
be, where her heart and soul belong….
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