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by Pearl S. Buck
A Chinese dissident is torn between love and country in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Good Earth. The Patriot is an engrossing story of revolution, love, and reluctantly divided loyalties by the Nobel Prize–winning author renowned for her novels set in Asia and informed by the sweep of history, including the New York Times bestsellers The Living Reed and The Hidden Flower. -
by Noah Gordon
An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this “rich” and “vivid” historical novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (The New York Times).
The Physician is the first book in New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy. -
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by Pearl S. Buck
A novel set in WWII Burma about a tragic Chinese–English alliance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dragon Seed and The Good Earth. A trenchant critique of colonialism and wartime betrayal, The Promise is Buck at her evocative best. -
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by Andrea Stuart
“A comprehensive and truly empathetic biography. Andrea Stuart, who was raised in the Caribbean, combines scholarly distance with a genuine attempt to understand her heroine.” —The Washington Post
The acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte, the Caribbean-born Creole who became the first wife of Napoleon and Empress of France. Using diaries and letters, Andrea Stuart brings her so utterly to life that we finally understand why Napoleon’s last word before dying was the name he had given her: Josephine. -
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