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  Let Us Begin - A tale of family...

  Julia Amante

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  Salvador arrives in the United States from Argentina with one big, unfocused goal: to become successful at something. He knows that America is the land of opportunity, and if he works hard, he will triumph. 
  Together with his childhood sweetheart, he settles in the Big Apple, where dreams come true. 
  But this ambitious young immigrant soon learns that it takes more than hard work and charisma to succeed and is changed by the harsh realities of living in New York. 
  Everyone has advice for Salvador as he moves from one dead-end job to another, attempting to reinvent himself. But the best advice comes from the loving letters he gets from his father. They keep him grounded and remind him of the man he wants to be until he loses this moral compass the day his father succumbs to diabetes. 
  As the 1960s roll into the 1970s and America and Salvador become less innocent, he finds himself in California, where he starts his own business, and it finally looks like the American Dream is within his grasp. 
  But things get complicated when Argentina is involved in a war in the early 1980s, and Salvador must decide where his allegiances lie. One wrong decision and bold act can bring his dreams crumbling down, and Salvador soon realizes that there are consequences for being impulsive and disloyal. 
  In the end, Salvador learns that there are boundaries men should not cross and that the love of family is the only worthwhile dream Americans should pursue. 
  Spanning decades, Let Us Begin is a moving story filled with joy and despair about a family searching for a home and a place to belong.

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  The Blood of Others

  Graham Hurley

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  The blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley, The Blood of Others is part of the SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspenseful, and action-packed events of World War II. 
   
  A catastrophe no headline dared admit. 
   
  Summer 1942. Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths. 
   
  George Hogan is a devout young Canadian journalist who has caught the eye of press baron Lord Beaverbrook. Now he faces an assignment that will test his faith to breaking point. 
   
  Jackie Wrenne, meanwhile, is working in Lord Louis Mountbatten's cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters and is privy to the boldest cross-Channel raid yet conceived. 
   
  Three lives interlinked by a name and a date that no Canadian will ever forget: Dieppe, 19 August 1942. At dawn, over six thousand men storm ashore on heavily defended French beaches. Barely hours later, less than half will make it back alive... 
   
  From highly acclaimed thriller author GRAHAM HURLEY, the blockbuster SPOILS OF WAR non-chronological collection features compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe. For fans of Philip Kerr and Robert Harris. 
   
  Praise for the author: 'A penetrating, compelling, and skilfully vivid slice of historical fiction' LOVEREADING 
   
  'Historical fiction of a high order' THE TIMES 
   
  'Tense, absorbing and faultlessly plotted' SUNDAY TIMES 
   
  'Beautifully constructed... This is one of Hurley's finest' DAILY MAIL 
   
  'Capable and understated characterization' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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  Before the Mango Ripens

  Afabwaje Kurian

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  In Rabata, everyone has secrets—especially since the arrival of the white American missionaries. 
   
   
   
  Twenty-year-old Jummai is a beautiful and unassuming house girl whose dreams of escaping her home life are disrupted when an unexpected pregnancy forces her to hide her lover's identity. Tebeya, an ambitious Dublin-educated doctor, has left prestigious opportunities abroad to return to the small town of her birth, and discovers a painful betrayal when she strives to take control of the mission clinic. Zanya is a young translator, enticed by promises of progress, who comes to Rabata to escape a bitter past and finds himself embroiled in a fight against the American reverend for the heart of the church and town. 
   
   
   
  United by their yearning for change, all three must make difficult decisions that threaten the fragile relationships of the Rabata they know. As tensions mount and hypocrisies are unveiled, the people of Rabata are faced with a question that will transform their town forever: Let the Americans stay, or make them go?

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  Cimarron

  Edna Ferber

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  Cimarron is Edna Ferber's sweeping novel of the American frontier and the making of modern society. Set during the Oklahoma land rush and its aftermath, the novel follows the Cravat family as they navigate ambition, displacement, and moral compromise in a rapidly changing territory where law, ownership, and identity are still being defined.
  
  At the center of the novel is the tension between idealism and reality. Public progress—new towns, newspapers, courts, and businesses—emerges alongside private failures, broken relationships, and unacknowledged injustice. Ferber presents the frontier not as myth, but as a social experiment shaped by power, exclusion, and endurance.
  
  Broad in scope yet attentive to personal cost, Cimarron examines how nations are formed through both vision and violence. Clear-eyed and unsentimental, the novel remains a foundational work of American historical fiction, capturing the construction of order out of expansion and uncertainty.

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  Love and War in the Jewish Quarter

  Dora Levy Mossanen

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  A breathtaking journey across Iran where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter. 
   
   
   
  Against the tumultuous background of World War II, Dr. Yaran will find himself caught in the thrall of the anti-Semitic Governor General, the most powerful man in the country. Dr. Yaran falls in love with the Governor General's defiant wife, Velvet, upending not only the life of the doctor's beloved daughter, but the entire community. In his quest to save everything and everyone he loves, Dr. Yaran will navigate the intersections of magic, science, lust, and treachery. His sole ally is the Governor General's servant, an exotic eunuch, who will do anything to aid his mistress in her dangerous quest to attain forbidden love.

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  Tuscan Warlord - Sir John...

  Griff Hosker

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  Sir John Hawkwood has almost all that he needs. He is the most respected and feared mercenary leader in Italy but he is surrounded by those who would do him and his family harm. He faces betrayal from friend and foe alike. His constants are his company and the leaders who fight for him. Treading a tightrope between warring factions that include the Pope and the Lord of Milan, Sir John Hawkwood decides to make the White Company into a warband and he becomes a warlord.

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