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- Location(s): Washington DC, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
The bestselling author of “Birdsong” and “Charlotte Gray” delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks’...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Set in Georgetown in the 1920s, River, Cross My Heart tells the story of a young black swimmer, Johnnie Mae, whose younger sister drowns in the Potomac River in summer — while the white children in Georgetown cool off...
- Location(s): Vietnam, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): 1965-1973
In Rolling Thunder, the time is late 1965 and 1966 in war zone places such as Saigon, Hanoi, Bien Hoa, Da Nang, and Tahkli. Back in Washington, LBJ sits over lunch and personally picks bombing targets in an attempt...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Serena’s life has a lot of positives. She is smart, confident, and just got a kick-ass new job at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C. When her younger sister gets married in a big, traditional wedding, Serena knows...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Humour, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neo-puritanical nineties, it’s a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a littIe when you’re compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick...
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- Location(s): Ethiopia, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Guatemala
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘The year’s best thriller’ The Times, Books of the Year The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Timesbestselling author of The Force The war has come home. For over forty years, Art Keller...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950
Washington, D.C., 1950 Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades. But when the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room, she...
The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 19th Century
(Major Gask & Erroll Rait Mysteries Book 4) Uncover the secrets history tried to bury… The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice thrusts readers into the shadowy aftermath of one of America’s darkest moments—the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865....
- Location(s): Washington DC, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
In equal parts hilarious, poignant, suspenseful and thrilling, The Christmas Train by David Baldacci is a delightful journey filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief . . . Disillusioned journalist Tom...
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