Erika Robuck

March 1944. Virginia Hall wasn't like the other young society women back home in Baltimore - she traded a safe life for adventure in Europe, and when her beloved second home is thrust into the dark days of war, she leaps in headfirst. Once she's recruited as an Allied spy, subverting the Nazis becomes her calling. But even the most cunning agent can be bested, and in wartime trusting the wrong person can prove fatal. While her future is anything but certain, this time more than ever Virginia knows that failure is not an option. Especially when she discovers what - and whom - she's truly protecting.

The Invisible Woman

"Powerful...heart-pounding."--Pam Jenoff A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes, Virginia decides to stay in occupied France with her French husband. She's sure that if they keep their heads down they'll make it through. But as the call to resist the enemy grows around her, Virginia must decide if she's willing to risk everything to help those in need. Nineteen-year-old Violette is a crack shot with an unquenchable spirit of adventure, and she's desperate to fight the Nazis however she can. When her mother sends her to find an exiled soldier, Violette meets the man who will change her life. Then tragedy strikes, and Britain's clandestine war organization--the Special Operations Executive--learns of Violette's dual citizenship and adept firearm handling and starts to recruit her. But Violette is no stranger to loss and must decide whether the cost of defiance is too great a price to pay. Set across the European theater of WWII, Sisters of Night and Fog tells the story of two women whose clandestine deeds come to a staggering halt when they are brought together at Ravensbrück concentration camp. A striking reminder of how deeply we are all connected, which forces us to ask, "Could I have done what they did?"

Sisters of Night and Fog

Fighting to forge an identity independent of her famous husband, Zelda Fitzgerald, committed to a Baltimore psychiatric hospital in 1932, finds a friend in nurse Anne Howard, who, drawn into the Fitzgeralds' tumultuous lives, questions who the true genius is.

Call Me Zelda

Mariella Bennet, struggling to support her family in Depression-era Key West, takes a job as a maid for Ernest Hemingway's second wife, and becomes caught up in a tempting, dangerous world of lavish parties, celebrities and the attentions of Papa himself. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) Original.

Hemingway's Girl

An unwed mother forges a complex friendship with Bohemian poet Edna St. Vincent Millay against a backdrop of critical 1930s cultural values, which force them to weight the cost of happiness. By the author of Hemingway's Girl. Original. 75,000 first printing.

Fallen Beauty

From the bestselling author of Hemingway's Girl comes a brilliant new novel about the unlikely marriage between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. When handsome, brooding Nathaniel Hawthorne first enters their parlor, it is Sophia's eldest sister Elizabeth, who is smitten with him. As the youngest daughter, beset by crippling headaches and endowed with a talent for drawing, Sophia is discouraged by her parents from pursuing a woman's traditional roles. But from their first electrifying meeting several weeks later, Nathaniel and Sophia begin an intense romantic relationship that despite many setbacks leads purposefully to their marriage. Together, they will cross continents, raise children, and experience all the beauty and tragedy of an exceptional partnership. Sophia's vivid journals and her masterful paintings kindle a fire in Nathaniel, inspiring his writing. But their children's needs and the deaths of loved ones steal Sophia's energy and time for her art, fueling in her a perennial tug-of-war between fulfilling her domestic duties and pursuing her own desires. Spanning the years from the 1830s to the Civil War, and moving from Massachusetts to England, Portugal, and Italy, The House of Hawthorne explores the tension within a famous marriage of two soulful, strong-willed people, each devoted to the other but also driven by a powerful need to explore the far reaches of their creative impulses. It is the story of how a forgotten woman in history lived her life and inspired one of the greatest writers of American literature.?

The House of Hawthorne

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Last Twelve Miles

The haunting words of an historian and former cane worker on the Caribbean island of Nevis launch Meghan Owen on her quest to unlock the secrets of an abandoned sugar plantation and its ghosts--Cover..

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