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  The Empire of the Senses - A Novel

  Alexis Landau

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  A sweeping, gorgeously written debut novel of duty to family and country, passion, and blood ties unraveling in the charged political climate of Berlin between the wars. 
  "Empire of the Senses is lush, smart, sexy, affecting, interesting, beautifully researched and well made. Spending time in the world of this novel is an absolute pleasure." -Aimee Bender 
  Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his gentile wife Josephine and their children, Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev's and Josephine's viewpoints, Part I of the novel focuses on Lev's experiences on the Eastern Front-both in war and in love-which render his life at home a pale aftermath by comparison. Part II picks up in Berlin in 1927-1928: the Perlmutter children, now young adults, grapple with their own questions-Franz, drawn into the brown shirt movement, struggling with his unexpressed homosexuality; Vicki, seduced by jazz, bobbed hair, and falling in love with a young man who wants to take her to Palestine. 
  Unlike most historical novels of this kind, The Empire of the Senses is not about the Holocaust but rather about the brew that led to it, and about why it was unimaginable to ordinary people like Lev and his wife. Plotted with meticulous precision and populated by characters who feel and dream to the fullest, it holds us rapt as the tides of cultural loss and ethnic hatred come to coexist with those of love, passion, and the power of the human spirit.

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  Anne and Louis - Passion and...

  Rozsa Gaston

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  "A historically sharp and dramatically stirring love story." (Kirkus Reviews) 
   
  "Gaston's blend of royalty, young love, and the French Renaissance is enchanting." (Publishers Weekly) 
   
  When Anne of Brittany's father dies in 1488, she becomes Duchess of Brittany, her country's ruler at age 11. For the next three years, the unmarried, orphaned duchess is pursued by suitors while Brittany is invaded by its larger, more powerful neighbor of France. With no other way out, at age 14 she agrees to marry Charles VIII, King of France, to save her country. Better to be a queen than a prisoner.... 
   
  Unexpectedly, a passionate relationship ensues. Yet Charles cannot shake off bad habits he has brought into their marriage, and Anne cannot help him in his darkest area of struggle. 
   
  Together, they introduce the wonders of the Italian Renaissance to France, building one of Europe's most glorious 15th century courts at their royal residence in Amboise, in the heart of the Loire Valley. 
   
  But year after year they fail to achieve the one most important aim they must accomplish to secure the future of their kingdom. As they desperately attempt to make their shared dream come true, an unexpected twist of fate irrevocably changes the fortunes of both Anne and Charles. 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  A Dance with Her Forbidden Officer

  Lauri Robinson

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  A forbidden romance set during WWIIHe danced her off her feet…now she can’t stop fallingNurse Wendy Smith promised her mother she’d see the world, starting with beautiful Hawaii. Her promise to herself—to never depend on a man—is harder to keep when navy officer K.T. McAllister jitterbugs into her life. Then Pearl Harbor is attacked and, as Wendy nurses an injured K.T., she learns he too has promises to people back home. Yet as K.T. grows stronger, so do her feelings, and her longing for the forbidden… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

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  Drawn and Quartered

  Peter Brandvold

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  In Drawn and Quartered, the explosive new book in Peter Brandvold's Bloody Joe western series, a young man rides back into Mannion's territory with mysterious intent.Matt Severance was accused of stealing a mine payroll with his older brother, Roy. Bloody Joe killed Roy, but the other rider got away. Folks believe Roy hid the money before he died, and they think Matt has returned to retrieve it though Matt insists he's only back to clear his name and to take over his dead father's ranch.Matt faces harassment from all sides, and its Mannion's job to keep the young man, whom he comes to like, alive and to retrieve the hidden loot. As a savage war erupts in the mountains, in Del Norte, Mannion's deputy, Rio Waite, confronts his own growing lack of bravery in the face of many threats in town, and Mannion's wife, the former Jane Ford, confronts her own growing mortality after having been shot in the chest by the savage bounty hunter, Xavier Lodge.Don't miss this new potboiler western from the pen of "Mean" Pete Brandvold!

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  Now's the Time - A Novel

  Larry Strauss

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  Part mystery, part adventure, completely heart-felt, “Now’s the Time” follows jazz trumpeter Didi Heron as she searches for the lost tape of her father’s last gig before his tragic death. A celebration of family ties and musical legacies, “Now’s the Time” is a meditation on jazz and jazz players. Drawing inspiration from the lives of musical giants, Strauss has created a fictional work rooted in historical fact, jazz rhythms and harmonies and emotional reality.

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  The Story Thief

  Kyra Geddes

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  Her family's story made Henry Lawson famous. But was it his story to tell?Fact and fiction meld into one in this stirring family saga set against shifting landscapes and pivotal moments in Australian history. Lillian was born in 1892, the same year Henry Lawson wrote 'The Drover's Wife' and cemented his place in Australia's literary canon. When Lillian reads the short story as a teenager, she is convinced that it is based upon her own family and becomes determined to prove it. But as the years pass, the truth becomes more problematic, and Lillian must decide what is more important: holding onto the past or embracing the future. The Story Thief is about mothers and daughters, love, loss and the power of words. Ultimately it is about how each of us must find our own way to live.‘Brimming with evocative, authentic detail, The Story Thief brings a fresh, feminist perspective to Australian literature and art. Australian historical fiction at its finest.' LIANE MORIARTY‘A richly textured and immersive novel filled with defining moments, minute detail and compelling insights into the meaning of loss, love and family.' NICOLE ALEXANDER‘Vividly drawn – a delightful book.' WENDY SHARPE, multi-award winning Australian artist‘The Story Thief is a finely wrought historical novel about those who have been seen, but not seen, in Australian literature and in life. RYAN O'NEILL, author of The Drover's Wives

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