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Born in splendor difficult to imagine today, she endured a lifetime of relentless tragedy with courage and exceptional powers of adjustment. The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov as seen through the eyes of its last surviving member. Through Olga, we meet Queen Victoria, George V of England, Rasputin, Mrs. Anderson - on whose story the movie Anastasia was made - and other impostors who plagued the exiled duchess with false hope. 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As the war gives way to the February and October Revolutions of 1917 and then to civil war, the four are separated, endangered, and repeatedly thrown back together across a Russia being remade.\n\nTolstoy, who lived through the events himself and wrote the first volume in emigration in Paris, follows his characters through the collapse of the old imperial order and the violent birth of the new one, weaving their personal choices — in love, loyalty, and survival — into the larger historical current.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kx6p07q718k0jcvgw8qc5kqe.jpg?v=2c66ab8cb8","LUK^~ZRkD*xu?w%2%Lof?GW=ofs:",1953,465,[321],{"id":322,"slug":323,"name":324},"01kx6p07qmpq1dg2zweamnetps","alexei-tolstoy-dwtt","Alexei Tolstoy",[326,327,328,332,333,337],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":304,"name":305,"slug":306,"is_fiction":18},{"id":329,"name":330,"slug":331,"is_fiction":19},8,"Historical Fiction","historical-fiction",{"id":37,"name":38,"slug":39,"is_fiction":19},{"id":334,"name":335,"slug":336,"is_fiction":19},58,"Classics","classics",{"id":338,"name":339,"slug":340,"is_fiction":19},9,"Literary Fiction","literary-fiction",[342],{"id":343,"slug":344,"name":345,"position":168,"is_main_entry":19,"parent_id":10,"parent_slug":10,"parent_name":10},"01kx6p43errrpatydyhs5rspzx","the-ordeal-a-trilogy-ajam","The Ordeal: A Trilogy",{"pace":108,"complexity":10,"audience":111,"mood":347,"themes":349,"setting_period":10,"summary":350,"content_warnings":10},[171,348,238],"atmospheric",[],"A trilogy following two sisters, Katya and Dasha, and the men they love as Russia moves from the last calm years before World War I through the war, the 1917 revolutions, and the civil war that follows. Alexei Tolstoy traces how ordinary lives among the Russian intelligentsia are pulled apart and reshaped by a decade of national upheaval.",{"id":352,"slug":353,"title":354,"description":355,"primary_cover_url":356,"cover_blurhash":357,"first_publish_year":358,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":359,"authors":360,"genres":365,"series":373,"enrichment":374},"01kx7dnbc8t9nd67p8e5xj4vfc","the-last-summer-21nr","The last summer","A sweepingly epic and gloriously intimate commercial debut - a beautiful and haunting story of lost innocence and a powerful, enduring love. 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But beneath the surface, she is suffocating. When she receives an invitation to a school reunion, it triggers memories of a past she has spent years trying to forget. As she is drawn back into the world of her childhood, Louise is forced to confront the dark secrets that have shaped her life, and the devastating truth about the perfect world she has built for herself.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kvqtbdjzp4m1tgp56t56ncd8.jpg?v=b87da51fc5","LiMGt[r@Iotk~pXPV@nQMfs;R%NG",2011,288,[392],{"id":393,"slug":394,"name":395},"01kvqtbdk7eh8mf2f31t49xpbz","suzanne-bugler-m9jk","Suzanne Bugler",[397,398,402],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":399,"name":400,"slug":401,"is_fiction":19},41,"Psychological Thriller","psychological-thriller",{"id":403,"name":404,"slug":405,"is_fiction":19},43,"Domestic Thriller","domestic-thriller",[],{"pace":408,"complexity":10,"audience":111,"mood":409,"themes":411,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},"fast",[238,410,150],"mysterious",[],{"id":413,"slug":414,"title":415,"description":416,"primary_cover_url":417,"cover_blurhash":418,"first_publish_year":419,"community_rating_avg":420,"community_rating_count":421,"page_count":422,"authors":423,"genres":428,"series":439,"enrichment":440},"01kkc5ed0vp8f0em6gs5n756m9","my-grandmother-asked-me-to-tell-you-shes-sorry-biti","My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry","Seven-year-old Elsa is precocious, \"different,\" and often in trouble at school — but she has her granny, a seventy-seven-year-old force of nature who fires paintball guns from balconies, breaks every rule, and is Elsa's best and only real friend. Best of all, Granny is the teller of fairy tales set in the Land of Almost-Awake and the kingdom of Miamas, stories that have shielded Elsa from a lonely world.\n\nWhen Granny dies of cancer, she leaves Elsa one last, greatest adventure: a treasure hunt of letters, each an apology to someone Granny wronged, to be delivered by Elsa herself. As Elsa carries the letters to the eccentric neighbors in her apartment building — a wurse, a monster, a woman with a fear of everything — she discovers that Granny's fantastical tales were built from the very real, often painful lives of the people all around her, and that the fairy tales were true in ways she never understood.\n\nWarm, funny, and quietly devastating, Fredrik Backman's second novel (first published in Swedish in 2013) is a story about grief, imagination, and the way stories help us survive one another. Several of its characters, including Britt-Marie, go on to appear in Backman's later books.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kte87n7qdha7nhazb8f1rfm3.jpg?v=3e9cbe9d41","LFL4$hWB~px]KSt79HRkvfxaV?t6",2013,"4.38",4,392,[424],{"id":425,"slug":426,"name":427},"01kjtgby1qrj6385je666ystkh","fredrik-backman-4bnm","Fredrik Backman",[429,433,434,438],{"id":430,"name":431,"slug":432,"is_fiction":19},12,"Fairy Tales","fairy-tales",{"id":338,"name":339,"slug":340,"is_fiction":19},{"id":435,"name":436,"slug":437,"is_fiction":19},59,"Contemporary Literature","contemporary-literature",{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":108,"complexity":10,"audience":111,"mood":441,"themes":443,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[442,171],"heartwarming",[],{"id":445,"slug":446,"title":447,"description":448,"primary_cover_url":449,"cover_blurhash":450,"first_publish_year":389,"community_rating_avg":159,"community_rating_count":110,"page_count":451,"authors":452,"genres":457,"series":460,"enrichment":461},"01kx2m96xnxv06gat8fcca66fr","salvage-the-bones-arhe","Salvage the Bones","They heard it on the radio. A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she's pregnant. The children of this family have always been short of nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. It is together that they will face building storm- and the day that will dawn after.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2m96ybfssctj668mqw5paj.jpg?v=e838ff796d","LGHxK2%KwH=_1BpIEMS$;KO@xDR,",275,[453],{"id":454,"slug":455,"name":456},"01knqcf36dp8v5vragf5y9xpgm","jesmyn-ward-lg7g","Jesmyn Ward",[458,459],{"id":435,"name":436,"slug":437,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":408,"complexity":10,"audience":111,"mood":462,"themes":464,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[150,463,238],"gritty",[],{"id":466,"slug":467,"title":468,"description":469,"primary_cover_url":470,"cover_blurhash":471,"first_publish_year":9,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":472,"authors":473,"genres":478,"series":481,"enrichment":482},"01kx2jzpjshzs4nnc4jnbkms07","untitled-cmrf","흰","A woman who has spent her life trying to erase the violence of a past she cannot name begins to feel something strange and uncontrollable: a desire for light. 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Told through dense, stream-of-consciousness prose that mirrors the paranoia of wartime Belfast, the story builds toward a violent confrontation between the two men in her life.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2bqt5dfbkyncbysz8ppcrk.jpg?v=7f8160af5e","LAF#~+xC00EKD%?H%J%M~pD%%MD*",2018,"4.00",394,[496],{"id":497,"slug":498,"name":499},"01kx2bqt57bhbjv30w9t08r26e","anna-burns-wjqd","Anna Burns",[501,502],{"id":435,"name":436,"slug":437,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":148,"complexity":10,"audience":111,"mood":505,"themes":506,"setting_period":10,"summary":489,"content_warnings":10},[150,238,463],[],{"id":508,"slug":509,"title":510,"description":10,"primary_cover_url":511,"cover_blurhash":512,"first_publish_year":513,"community_rating_avg":159,"community_rating_count":110,"page_count":514,"authors":515,"genres":520,"series":523,"enrichment":524},"01kx2n3abfc9ebfhc8v7rnbnwe","the-guncle-tcn1","The Guncle","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2n3abyb0ygntp9n69bkmtz.jpg?v=9edf949962","LuOWv3t7ocbb{tj[aya{J;bGWXju",2021,336,[516],{"id":517,"slug":518,"name":519},"01kx2n3absy2wbwb7qnnvye5h3","steven-rowley-w91b","Steven Rowley",[521,522],{"id":435,"name":436,"slug":437,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":148,"complexity":10,"audience":111,"mood":525,"themes":526,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[115,171],[],{"key":528,"params":529,"works":530},"genre_mood",{"genre":34,"mood":113},[531,551,570,595,605,627],{"id":532,"slug":533,"title":534,"description":535,"primary_cover_url":536,"cover_blurhash":537,"first_publish_year":538,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":10,"authors":539,"genres":544,"series":547,"enrichment":548},"01kx7gyanp6q03e5zatmawvz74","the-taming-of-the-queen-4bbn","The Taming of The Queen","Kateryn Parr, a devout widow with a sharp mind for theology and politics, becomes the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. As his health declines from gout and an infected leg wound, she navigates the dangerous court while championing the English Reformation and advocating for her daughters' legitimacy.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7gyap1w3t7e40nrtsvdptn.jpg?v=c61b2cd644","LPEK[iiwEjn$~ARjNeaeK1Nun+R*",2015,[540],{"id":541,"slug":542,"name":543},"01kkc9qj8z88xj59czwczd1gev","philippa-gregory-gg1g","Philippa Gregory",[545,546],{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":304,"name":305,"slug":306,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":108,"complexity":10,"audience":111,"mood":549,"themes":550,"setting_period":10,"summary":535,"content_warnings":10},[113,238],[215],{"id":552,"slug":553,"title":554,"description":10,"primary_cover_url":555,"cover_blurhash":556,"first_publish_year":389,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":557,"authors":558,"genres":563,"series":566,"enrichment":567},"01kx7ervgek8kng6vyjtbqkhn0","pale-rose-of-england-odnq","Pale rose of England","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7ervgy3v6c7hrzcnmpqp6w.jpg?v=173dd8783d","L9IN,HT00L9F^%~BxvEL00s:=|Xm",457,[559],{"id":560,"slug":561,"name":562},"01kx7ervgsvmy6q1gfbwpxe8qj","sandra-worth-6ugx","Sandra Worth",[564,565],{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":304,"name":305,"slug":306,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":108,"complexity":10,"audience":111,"mood":568,"themes":569,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[113,238],[],{"id":571,"slug":572,"title":573,"description":574,"primary_cover_url":575,"cover_blurhash":576,"first_publish_year":577,"community_rating_avg":10,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":578,"authors":579,"genres":584,"series":590,"enrichment":591},"01kx7gzkga5zr2kq2tnhqrwyns","diplomats-daughter-drhd","Diplomat's Daughter","\"For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the \"thought-provoking\" (Library Journal, starred review) and \"must-read\" (PopSugar) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II and their journey back to one another. During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas interment camp, the victim of misfortune and America's new policies of fear. Plagued by fence sickness, her world changes when she meets Christian Lange, whose German-born parents were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities. Together, they live as prisoners with thousands of other German and Japanese families, but discover that young love can triumph over even the most unjust circumstances. When Emi and her mother are abruptly sent back to Japan, Christian enlists in the US Army, with his sights set on the Pacific front--and a reunion with Emi. Sent away for her safety, Emi lives out the war in a Japanese resort town where many in the foreign community have fled, including both Jews and Nazis. When she overhears a German officer boasting of the men he has murdered in Asia, fate brings Emi back to Leo Hartmann, the son of prominent Austrian Jews, now a refugee in Shanghai--her oldest friend and her first love. Fearing for his life, Emi is determined to find Leo. But will Christian's devotion be strong enough to stop her? Hurtled together by war, passion, and extraordinary acts of selflessness, the paths of these three remarkable young people collide as the fighting on the Pacific front crescendos. 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When Margot's wedding devolves into the bloodshed of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, she will be forced to choose between her family and her soul. 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Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh \"butterflies\" awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore Dreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot's earnings and kept a \"whipper\" on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac.Not everyone appreciated the sisters' attempts to elevate the industry. Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs, including an attempt to frame them for the death of department store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters' most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire country into a frenzy with lurid tales of \"white slavery\"--the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America's sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.With a cast of characters that includes Jack Johnson, John Barrymore, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, \"Hinky Dink\" Kenna, and Al Capone, Sin in the Second City is Karen Abbott's colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club, and the perennial clash between our nation's hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, Sin in the Second City offers a vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity.Visit www.sininthesecondcity.com to learn more!Praise for Sin in the Second City:\"Assiduously researched... [Sin in the Second City] describes a popular culture awash in wild tales of sexual abuse, crusading reformers claiming God on their side, and deep suspicion of the threat posed by \"foreigners\" to the nation's Christian values.\" --Janet Maslin, The New York Times \"Lavish in her details, nicely detached in her point of view, [and with] scrupulous concern for historical accuracy, Ms. Abbott has written an immensely readable book. Sin in the Second City offers much in the way of reflection for those interested in the unending puzzle that goes by the name of human nature.\" -- The Wall Street Journal \"Abbott's first book is meticulously researched and entertaining... a colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.\" --The Atlanta Journal Constitution\"With gleaming prose and authoritative knowledge Abbott elucidates one of the most colorful periods in American history, and the result reads like the very best fiction. Sex, opulence, murder -- What's not to love?\" -- Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants\"A detailed and intimate portrait of the Ritz of brothels, the famed Everleigh Club of turn-of-the-century Chicago. 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