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Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Romance
Part love story, part literary mystery, Melanie Benjamin's spellbinding historical novel leads readers on an unforgettable journey down the rabbit hole, to tell the story of a woman whose own life became the stuff of legend. Her name is Alice Liddell Hargreaves, but to the world she'll always be known s ...Show more
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Fiction
Alice I Have Been, the girl who inspired a classic, at last tells her own extraordinary tale of life beyond the looking glass. Looking back at the childhood mystery that took a lifetime to solve and her tumultuous love life, Alice at last discovers - and embraces - the woman she became when she outgre ...Show more
California Golden by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Fiction
Two sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife. "A shimmering rendering . . . pairs the surf culture of th ...Show more
Grand Central - Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion by Melanie Benjamin; Sarah McCoy; Kristin Hannah (Translator); Kristina McMorris; Jenna Blum; Sarah Jio; Alyson Richman; Pam Jenoff; Erika Robuck; Amanda Hodgkinson; Karen White
Category: Fiction
Ten bestselling authors inspired by New York City's iconic Grand Central Terminal have created their own stories, set on the same day, just after the end of World War II, in a time of hope, uncertainty, change, and renewal....A war bride awaits the arrival of her GI husband at the platform...A Holocaust ...Show more
Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Fiction
Nothing bad can happen at the Ritz; inside its gilded walls every woman looks beautiful, every man appears witty. Favored guests like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walk through its famous doors, where they're welcomed and pampered by Blanche Auze ...Show more
Mistress of the Ritz - A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic H tel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and Th ...Show more
The Autobiography of Mrs Tom Thumb: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Fiction
For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America's Gilded Age. She was only two feet, eight inches tall, but more ...Show more
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Fiction
In the spirit of "Loving Frank" and "The Paris Wife, " acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. "The history [is] exhilarating. . . . "The Aviator's Wife" soars."--"USA Today" " ...Show more
The Children's Blizzard - A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren. "A nail-biter. . . poignant, powerful ...Show more
The Children's Blizzard - A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Literature
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren. "Melanie Benjamin never fails to crea ...Show more
The Girls In The Picture: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Fiction
It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is oflickerso-the silent moving pictures enthralling thea ...Show more
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
Category: Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s--and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. People's Book of the Week * USA ...Show more