TITLE: The Thirteenth Tale
AUTHOR: Diane Setterfield
PUBLISHER: Atria
PUBLICATION DATE: September 2006
PAGES: 416 pages
GENRE: Fiction
A compelling emotional mystery in the timeless vein of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling.
Margaret Lea works in her father’s antiquarian bookshop where her fascination for the biographies of the long-dead has led her to [...]

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Bitter with thoughts of the darkly handsome stranger [...]

The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony’s revengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. [...]

I have some great news regarding The White Queen by Philippa Gregory since I last posted her giveaway last month. To celebrate the success of its release, LivingSocial and Simon & Schuster are giving away a trip to London and other great prizes. All you have to do is visit http://books.livingsocial.com/the-white-queen sign in/up for LivingSocial [...]

IN THIS RIVETING AMALGAM OF POLITICAL INTRIGUE, POIGNANT ROMANCE, AND BARE-KNUCKLED ACTION, SIX FRIENDS RISK EVERYTHING TO THWART AN INTERNATIONAL NAZI CONSPIRACY.
In the financial devastation of the 1930s, a greedy, power-hungry group of German industrialists plot to usher in the National Socialist Party in order to rearm Germany and reap the financial rewards. Thus rises [...]

Philippa Gregory, “the queen of royal fiction” (USA Today) Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.
Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the [...]

Someplace to Go by Elle Newmark…The Book Faery says reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are, so check this out:
Venice. 1498. The Renaissance. Welcome to the kitchen of the doge’s palace.
In The Book of Unholy Mischief, a young man, actually a dirty little thief, is [...]

A Band of Roses is an alternate history adventure set in modern day Ireland. The "what if" premise of the story supposes that Irish High King Brian Boru survived the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 A.D. and founded a dynasty that rules Ireland to this day.
Crown Princess Talty Boru, the daughter of the current King [...]

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.
Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, [...]

In this stunning novel, C.W. Gortner brings to life Juana of Castile, the third child of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand of Spain, who would become the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country’s throne.  Along the way, Gortner takes the reader from the somber majesty of Spain to the glittering and lethal [...]