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items Escape into a secret garden in your mind and enjoy incredible stories of people, the paths they take and how those paths shaped history.
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History is a story and a story is history
My auto-buy romance author Devney Perry
Chloe Walsh Books I Can’t Stop Thinking About
Romance books with spice that’s scalding
World War 2 Historical Fiction
Lady Whistledown has tea to spill
History is a story and a story is history
Top historical fiction books I’ll always recommend
Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate and alternating versions of Cora's and her young son's lives, shaped by her choice of name.
The Names (A Read with Jenna Pick)|Hardcover
It is the year 1710, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses.
The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J. West
First-century Rome: One young woman will hold the fate of an empire in her hands.
Mistress of Rome (Empress of Rome Series #1)|Paperback
Based on the true story of Professor William Jackson Crawford and famed medium Kathleen Goligher, and with a cast of characters including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, The Spirit Engineer conjures a haunted, twisted tale of power, paranoi...
The Spirit Engineer
My auto-buy romance author Devney Perry
Montana-based romances where the weather might be cold, but the tension is hot
This series starts out with a bang. It has romance and murder mystery.
Indigo Ridge (The Edens #1)|Paperback
Knox Eden is smoking hot and a great continuation of this series
Juniper Hill (The Edens #2)|Paperback
Talia Eden is a spitfire and she doesn’t take crap from anyone especially her ex, Foster
Garnet Flats|Paperback
Lyla’s story starts out in a terrifying way, but will it end spectacularly?
Crimson River (The Edens #5)|Paperback
Eloise Eden is so responsible. We love her for it, but we love it even more when she meets Jasper.
Jasper Vale (The Edens #4)|Paperback
Sometimes your greatest love is right in front of your face.
Sable Peak (The Edens #6)|Paperback
Can the love you had as a kid follow you into adulthood
Crossroads|Paperback
Sometimes the biggest surprises turn into the greatest stories and the happiest of happily ever after
Sunlight|Paperback
Devney Perry dove head first into romantasy and thrived
Shield of Sparrows|Hardcover
Love isn’t always easy and it’s never easy when you have to work with your ex
Coach (Treasure State Wildcats Series #1)|Paperback
Age is just a number right? Until it’s a coach at you college.
Blitz (Treasure State Wildcats Series #2)|Paperback
His senior year is not going to plan, but it can only go up when it comes to her
Rally (Treasure State Wildcats Series #3)|Paperback
They are childhood friends, they hate each other, but have decided to fake date
Merit (Treasure State Wildcats Series #4)|Paperback
Chloe Walsh Books I Can’t Stop Thinking About
The most incredible series I’ve ever read that will leave you smiling, laughing and crying.
Shannon’s strength is something that should be studied
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen #1)|Paperback
Johnny is the epitome of a strong protector, golden retriever boyfriend
Keeping 13 (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Boys of Tommen #2)|BN Exclusive
Aiofe and Joey are so strong and even stronger together
Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen #3)|Paperback
Without Aoife, Joey would be lost and vice versa.
Redeeming 6 (Boys of Tommen #4)|Paperback
Gibsie is everyone’s favorite best friend and I wish he was mine
Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen #5)|Paperback
I’m still not sure I like her, but I sure do understand her now.
Releasing 10 (Standard Edition) (Boys of Tommen #6)|Paperback
Romance books with spice that’s scalding
These books are great to read one handed
Dante Russo is on another level of male main character
King of Wrath (Kings of Sin #1)|Paperback
I mean the best sex is make up sex right
King of Greed (Kings of Sin #3)|Paperback
Kai Young’s British accent makes everything better
King of Pride (Kings of Sin #2)|Paperback
I didn’t think a male main character could get any better and then I met Vuk
King of Envy (Kings of Sin #5)|BN Exclusive
Xavier is funny, cheeky and really good at a lot of things to say the least
King of Sloth (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Kings of Sin #4)|BN Exclusive
We love a enemies sister romance and Asher Donovan is not just good at soccer
The Striker (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
World War 2 Historical Fiction
We learn about history so we aren’t doomed to repeat it
In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. France, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade Franc...
The Nightingale|Paperback
In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path.
Given a rifle and sent to ...
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947...
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing ha...
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
All the Light We Cannot See (Pulitzer Prize Winner)|Paperback
Lady Whistledown has tea to spill
The tea is hot and the spice is hotter
Will she accept his offer before the clock strikes midnight? Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball-or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, So...
An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn | Author of Historical Romance Novels
A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable... but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter.
The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships wit...
The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1) by Julia Quinn
Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for...well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks ...
Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4) by Julia Quinn
Sir Phillip knew from his correspondence with his dead wife's distant cousin that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except ...
To Sir Phillip, With Love - Julia Quinn | Author of Historical Romance Novels
Everything was so much simpler... when he was wicked. In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that...
When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6) by Julia Quinn
IF IT'S IN HIS HEART... IT'S IN HIS KISS MEET OUR HERO...Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or ma...
It's In His Kiss - Julia Quinn | Author of Historical Romance Novels
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, this author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consumma...
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2) by Julia Quinn
A funny thing happened... Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened...
On the Way to the Wedding (Bridgertons, #8) by Julia Quinn
Taylor Jenkins Reid Universe
Transport in time to stories of life, love and heartache
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, un...
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is ...
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles.
And if yo...
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . .. until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sl...
Daisy Jones & The Six: Reese's Book Club Novel
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. ...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Novel
LGBTQIA+ stories love is love
Love is love and it knows no bounds
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, un...
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Love the male/male enemies to lovers story of the President’s and a prince.
Red, White & Royal Blue|Paperback
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origin...
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir|Paperback
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their fam...
The Vanishing Half|Paperback
Two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each other-except they're definitely not. Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, ...
The Pairing (Special Edition)|Special
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now,...
This Is How You Lose the Time War|Paperback
Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by Kristin Hannah
You won’t be able to read these without crying
Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive d...
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prid...
The Women: A Novel - Hannah, Kristin: Books
In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. France, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade Franc...
The Nightingale|Paperback
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the...
The Four Winds: A Novel|Paperback
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved f...
Winter Garden: A Novel|Paperback
Kate Quinn for the win
Strong women are the best women
In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path.
Given a rifle and sent to ...
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947...
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted...Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying.
When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment w...
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., 1950.
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
A heart-stopping World War Il story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. 1940.
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
First-century Rome: One young woman will hold the fate of an empire in her hands.
Mistress of Rome (Empress of Rome Series #1)|Paperback
The Maasverse
Sarah J. Maas and her last 100 pages are terrifying
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but o...
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #1)|Paperback
As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different people: one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in t...
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #2)|Paperback
Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could...
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #3)|Paperback
Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly altered world beyond, recovering from the war that changed everything. But Winter Solstice is finally approaching, and with it, the joy of a hard-earned reprie...
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series)|Paperback
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she ...
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #4)|Paperback
Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin's Guild and its scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, she yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. But when Arobynn dispatches her...
The Assassin's Blade: The Throne of Glass Novellas|Paperback
In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle.
She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves...
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass Series #1)|Paperback
Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become the King's Champion. But she is far from loyal to the crown. Though she goes to great lengths to hide her secret, her deadly charade becomes more difficult when she realizes she is not the only one se...
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass Series #2)|Paperback
Celaena Sardothien has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak, but now she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth. That truth could change her life-and her future-forever
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass Series #3)|Paperback
Celaena Sardothien has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass Series #4)|Paperback
The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves increasingly at odds with those w...
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Series #5)|Paperback
Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq have arrived in the shining city of Antica to forge an alliance with the Khagan of the Southern Continent, whose vast armies are Erilea's last hope. But they have also come to Antica for another purpose: to seek healin...
Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass Series #6)|Paperback
Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people, but at a tremendous cost. Locked in an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she...
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass Series #7)|Paperback
Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at t...
House of Earth and Blood (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Crescent City Series #1)|BN Exclusive
Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal—they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.
House of Sky and Breath (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Crescent City Series #2)|BN Exclusive
Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she’s going to need all her wi...
House of Flame and Shadow (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive