<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bl results for formatcode:"BK" AND audience:"adult" AND ge:("Historical Fiction" NOT "Love Stories")]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for formatcode:"BK" AND audience:"adult" AND ge:("Historical Fiction" NOT "Love Stories")]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/kcls/rss/search?query=formatcode%3A%22BK%22%20AND%20audience%3A%22adult%22%20AND%20ge%3A%28%22Historical%20Fiction%22%20NOT%20%22Love%20Stories%22%29&amp;searchType=bl&amp;sort=NEWLY_ACQUIRED&amp;suppress=true&amp;title=Historical%20Fiction&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:00:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Death Times Seven]]></title><description><![CDATA["1913: Junior attorney Daniel Pitt must step in for his friend, fellow attorney Toby Kitteridge, whose parents have been brutally attacked. Toby's mother is dead and his father, a village vicar, is barely alive. With Toby returning to the family home in rural Ipswich, struggling with grief and disbelief, Daniel remains in London to substitute for Toby and defend Peter Ward, on trial for the sexual assault and murder of a young woman. Daniel is convinced that Ward is innocent, yet the evidence seems to prove otherwise. Eager to assist, his pathologist wife, Miriam fford Croft, offers her forensics expertise and exposes a community of fellow pathologists who may have purposefully omitted information from their autopsy reports. Despite Miriam's involvement in the case, Daniel finds himself distracted by his desire to help Toby, who is too distraught to investigate the attack on his parents. And when the evidence points to Toby's father as the killer of Toby's mother, Daniel faces two of the greatest challenges of his young career: proving the innocence of both Peter Ward and Reverend Kitteridge. One mistake in London and a blameless man will hang. One mistake in Ipswich and Toby's father will go to prison for life." -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2605217</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2605217</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Perry, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2605217082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Daniel Pitt Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593982518/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lost Girl of Craven County]]></title><description><![CDATA["Brought together by chance, bound together by secrets. A decade into the Depression, Millicent Green is a 25-year-old "old maid" living with her marriage-obsessed mother and domineering older brother in the stiflingly small Jewish community of New Bern, North Carolina. Smart and prickly, she's struggling to find her place in the world following the loss of her beloved younger brother, and with him, her dreams for the future. One humid August day, Millie is sent to run an errand and discovers a young woman unconscious on the ground. This mystery woman, mute and without identification, will upend Millie's life. Together, they set out on a quest that will lay bare some of the 20th century's most shameful episodes. From a historic river town to the hinterlands of rural North Carolina, The Lost Girl of Craven County delves into the impossibility of burying secrets forever"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2624394</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2624394</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matchar, Emily]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2624394082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217048007/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold on to Tomorrow / by M.B. Henry]]></title><description><![CDATA[A young woman fights to follow her dreams at the start of the 1960s in this gripping, moving, and empowering read. November 22, 1963. As Jolene Johnson prepares to watch President John F. Kennedy's parade drive by the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, she remembers the start of the decade, when the future seemed full of promise and hope. America was on the brink of change when JFK entered the White House, and Jolene was in college with ambitions of her own. But she had no idea of the struggles that were to come . . . As Jolene witnesses the country's deep political divisions take the darkest of turns on that tragic day, can she somehow find the courage to keep her own dreams alive and follow her heart? This enthralling, hopeful novel about a young woman's determination to fight for a brighter future against a backdrop of political turmoil and tragedy is a great read for fans of The Women by Kristin Hannah.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2624412</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2624412</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry, M. B.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2624412082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781448321094/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOME TO ME]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten years have passed since Finbarr O'Connor's life was changed forever by the horrific fire that still haunts Hope Springs. He's learned to navigate the world without his sight. He has even regained much of his independence. But he's exhausted, worn down, lost. So, when an opportunity arises that would make his life far easier, he's tempted. But accepting it would mean leaving Hope Springs and all his family. Emma Archer has been away from Hope Springs for nearly half a decade. Distance has helped her escape the ghosts that haunt her there. But the pain she has not entirely outrun catches up with her when a telegram arrives from an unknown sender, urging her to return home for the sake of her sister. She loves her family too much to ignore the plea, yet returning will be painful. Seeing Finbarr O'Connor again, she fears, will shatter her completely. Her unexpected return thrusts them together again. Both struggling with their pasts and unsure of their futures, they begin to find in each other some of the trust they once lost. Is there hope for something more in the pull they feel to each other, a new chance to find home, healing, and love before life pulls them apart once more?]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2643819</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2643819</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[EDEN, SARAH M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2643819082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781968090173/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebel English Academy]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the brilliant Booker-longlisted Mohammed Hanif comes a lively, rich novel about the power of language, friendship, and protest in the face of political turmoil. When Pakistan's first elected Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is hanged, the people of OK Town refuse to believe he is dead and fight to bring him back. In the heart of the city, Sir Baghi is surprised by a knock at the door of the Rebel English Academy, his tuition center that offers affordable English lessons. An unexpected visitor, Sabiha, seeks refuge at the Academy, her husband has just died in a house fire, and she is suspected of killing him, although she insists she only ran away from a burning building. Baghi encourages Sabiha to write, and a lifetime of secrets begin to unspool on the page. Meanwhile Captain Gul, who botched his hanging duty, has been banished to OK Town, where he aims to squash the protestors wanting to bring Bhutto back from the dead. But his duties and romantic desires begin to overlap, and his already-dubious power is threatened. In Rebel English Academy, Pakistan is struggling under martial law after the execution of its former leader. Mohammed Hanif has constructed a vibrant cast of interconnected characters that face this changing landscape with violence, passion, and sharp humor. Wry, searing, and deeply relevant, Rebel English Academy is a triumphant new novel about political power, religion, education, sexuality, and perpetual dissent"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2641054</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2641054</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hanif, Mohammed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2641054082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802165985/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edenglassie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny. Together they care for obstinate centenarian Granny Eddie, and sparks fly, but not always in the right direction. What nobody knows is how far the legacies of the past will reach into their modern lives. In this brilliant epic novel, Melissa Lucashenko torches Queensland's colonial myths, while reimagining an Australian future.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2641048</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2641048</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lucashenko, Melissa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2641048082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781836431060/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yi yu]]></title><description><![CDATA[880-06 "Ben shu ji zai 1949 nian di cong Yunnan wang Miandian che tui de gu jun zhi fen zhan ji qi jian nan xian zu,gu jun fu bei shou di(gong jun, mian jun),you de bu zhao zheng fu zhi zhi yuan,zai fu za qing shi zhong de zhan lüe ni ding ji zhan shu yun yong,yi ji pao ze, qin zi de guan xi deng qing jie,jiao zhi cheng yi bu gan ren fei fu de zhan zheng wen xue zuo pin." -- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2643931</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2643931</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[chi]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Boyang]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2643931082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>chi</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9789573299608/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton]]></title><description><![CDATA["A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery--she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun, Elizabeth Barton. Barton's prophecy condemning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn led to her execution and the destruction of all copies of her prophecies--or so the world believed. With Alison's discovery, she is catapulted to academic superstardom and scores an invitation to the exclusive Codex Consortium, a week of research among a select handful of fellow historians at a crumbling manor in England, located next to the ruins of the priory where Elizabeth herself once lived. What begins as a promising conference turns into a nightmare as the eerie house becomes the site of a murder. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect, and it seems that answers lie at the root of a local legend about centuries-old hidden treasure. Alison's research makes her best-suited to solve the mystery--but when old feelings resurface for a former colleague, and the stakes of the search skyrocket, everyone's motives become murky. Alison's cutthroat world of academia is almost as dangerous as Elizabeth Barton's sixteenth-century England, where heretics are beheaded, visions can kill, and knowing who to trust is a deadly art"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623156</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623156</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown, Jennifer N.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623156082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250383594/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effingers]]></title><description><![CDATA["Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time. Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is a novel both epic and intimate as it chronicles the lives and fates of three generations of a German Jewish family. Beginning from 1878-the year after the narrative of Buddenbrooks ends-and ending in 1948, we follow the Effingers, a family of modest craftsmen from southern Germany, who are joined through marriage to two families of high-society financiers in Berlin, the Goldschmidts and the Oppners. The Effingers soon rise to prominence as one of the most important German industrialist families in Berlin, but with the outbreak of World War I, they fall on hard times, and must then navigate the tumultuous changes of the Weimar Republic. Full of parties and drama and the most delicious gossip, and featuring a kaleidoscopic cast of unforgettable characters, Effingers is a vibrant and keenly observed account of German Jewish life in all its richness and complexity. Tergit's journalistic precision and limpid prose dazzle in Sophie Duvernoy's elegant, fluid translation. Criminally underrated when it first came out in 1951, and only in recent years undergoing rediscovery, Effingers is a searching meditation on identity and nationality that establishes Tergit as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2625772</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2625772</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tergit, Gabriele]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2625772082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781681379791/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Model Patient]]></title><description><![CDATA[Evelyn Westbrook has given up her career as a model and wants to find fulfilment in married life. But when her husband suggests they start trying for a baby, everything begins to unravel. Struggling to cope with crippling nightmares, Evelyn takes the advice of a friend and goes to see a psychotherapist. She is apprehensive about exposing her intimate issues: what she absolutely does not want to do is unearth the secrets of her past. The enigmatic Dr. Daley, however, is determined to take her back there, and she soon finds herself drawn to him. Evelyn's interest in her therapist turns to obsession, and she becomes locked in a powerful relationship where the question of whether he is caring for her or manipulating her becomes impossible to untangle.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2637390</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2637390</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashe, Lucy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2637390082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781454960775/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Midnight Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 1980s, women were not supposed to be funny. But when a group of college improv comedians gets the chance to join a new late-night show, it's Lillian Martin who stands out. The new show was called The Midnight Show and it would air every Friday night, live from New York, and change the landscape of TV and comedy forever. But first it would change Lillian's and her friends' lives. The show is a runaway hit and the cast is thrown into the spotlight. Suddenly, they're skipping the line at the city's hottest clubs and posing on the cover of Rolling Stone. Lillian, in particular, seems destined for big things--until one winter night in Lower Manhattan, she vanishes, leaving nothing behind but questions. Was Lillian a victim of her own excesses? Was it a mugging gone wrong? Or could she have been killed by someone in her own inner circle? Forty years later, Lillian's disappearance has never been solved. But when a budding journalist looking to examine Lillian's story from a modern lens begins asking questions, she stirs up decades-old drama--as well as tightly-held secrets some comedy legends would much rather stay buried.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623157</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623157</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly, Lee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623157082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217086672/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gunner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspired by the true story of a secret mission taken during World War II, Gunner is the atmospheric, exciting start of a suspenseful new thriller series. March 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the streets of Glasgow after being wounded on the front lines in France. Keeping the pain in his leg at bay with the help of morphine, Gunner, a former detective, is hoping to lie low as the Luftwaffe begins bombing Glasgow. But when he runs into his old boss Drummond, he is persuaded to help examine a body found in the wreckage. When it turns out to be that of a German, mutilated to disguise his identity, Gunner reluctantly agrees to investigate. As he begins to hunt for the truth Gunner runs into old flames and bitter enemies, before finding himself embroiled in a high-level conspiracy that reaches far beyond his hometown of Glasgow. Inspired by the true story of Rudolf Hess's secret mission to broker appeasement with Britain during World War II, Gunner is a critically acclaimed new thriller from one of Britain's most admired authors.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2624392</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2624392</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Parks, Alan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2624392082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798897101092/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scoundrel and the Siren]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the next installment of the swoon-worthy Princes of London series, Christy Carlyle takes readers on a heart-pounding hunt through Norfolk where a legendary treasure hunter and a fierce local woman battle over a Viking hoard, each determined to claim it for their own--and neither willing to lose their heart in the process... Dominic Prince is passionate, tenacious, and determined to carve out a legendary name for himself--just like his famous treasure-hunting father. When an American tycoon funds his expedition to uncover a Viking hoard in Norfolk and ship it across the Atlantic, Dominic sees his chance to claim glory. If he can unearth a treasure trove so magnificent it lands him on the front pages of newspapers in both England and America, his success will finally be undeniable. Tess Hawthorne doesn't quite know what to make of the entirely too handsome scoundrel who shows up in her village seeking the very treasure she's been hoping to find all her life. When he asks to employ her knowledge and familiarity with the locals to assist on the dig, she accepts.  But she doesn't want whatever treasure they find to leave England, and she certainly doesn't want to lose her heart to the man determined to claim it..."-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623163</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623163</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carlyle, Christy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623163082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063347380/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never After]]></title><description><![CDATA["On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael 'Micha' Dashwood uses sex to pay the bills and opium to numb the pain. When a sudden illness strikes, all seems lost. But hope finds Micha in the shape of the Reverend Thomas Mandeville. Haunted by grief of his own, Thomas cannot bear to ignore another man's plight. He brings the ailing Micha home to heal in his parish at Nettlefield. As Micha recovers under Thomas's care, he begins to realize that some people in this world are worthy of trust. Thomas, in turn, learns the truth of his own needs and desires. Between the secrets of the past and the burdens of the present, their future together seems impossible. Questions of faith and the shadow of opium continue to haunt them both. Yet possibilities, like miracles, can be found wherever you look for them"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623939</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623939</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hall, Alexis J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623939082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781662509414/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honey in the Wound]]></title><description><![CDATA["A sister disappears and returns as a tiger. A mother's voice compels the truth from any tongue. A granddaughter divines secrets in others' dreams. These woman are all of one lineage--a Korean family split across decades and borders by Japanese imperialism. At this saga's heart is Young-Ja, a girl who infuses food with her emotions. She revels in her gift for cooking, nourishing the people she loves with her cheerfulness. But her sunny childhood comes to an end in 1931when Japanese soldiers crush her family's defiance against the Empire. Young-Ja is cast adrift, her food turning increasingly bitter with grief. When a Korean rebel fighter notices her talents, however,she is whisked off to Manchuria to join a secretive sisterhood withbeautiful teahouse spies. There, Young-Ja finds a new sense of belonging and starts using her abilities for the resistance. But the Imperial Army is not finished with her... Decades later, Young-Ja livesalone in Seoul, withdrawn from the world until her Tokyo-born granddaughter Rinako bursts into her life with the ability to see into dreams. In cultivating a tentative bond, they confront the long-buriedpast in a stunning emotional climax."--Publisher description.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2629962</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2629962</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Han, Jiyoung]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2629962082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668202166/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Counting Game]]></title><description><![CDATA["Southwest Ireland, 1995 : Two children go into the woods. Only one comes out. When thirteen-year-old Saoirse Kellough goes missing, panic grips a rural Irish community. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in the forest, rumored by locals to be haunted, and the only witness--her troubled younger brother, Jack--refuses to speak. Saoirse went missing when they were playing the Counting Game, a ritual believed to ward off evil, and Jack has sworn to protect the forest's secrets. Freya Hemmings, a psychotherapist still healing from a loss of her own, is brought in to help investigators break Jack's silence. As the race to find Saoirse alive accelerates, the search threatens to unravel a family facing the unthinkable. Everyone is a suspect, and the closer Freya and Jack become, the more danger they find themselves in."--from dust jacket.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623982</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623982</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nolan, Sinéad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623982082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668099407/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Deal With A Debutante]]></title><description><![CDATA[She's running from London's marriage mart. He's running out of time to save his estate. Neither intends to fall in love--but their hearts have other plans. American heiress Calliope Hart is thrust into London's high society against her will, all because her mother is determined to marry her off to an aristocrat. Despite being named "the debutante of the season" back in New York, Calliope wants nothing more than to avoid becoming another pawn in the social game. Edward Chase, the Earl of Hayward, is on the brink of financial ruin. To save his estate, he must marry, and Calliope Hart is his last hope. When he boldly declares his intentions, she swiftly rejects him, making it clear she has no interest in marrying for convenience. Undeterred, Edward offers a deal: He will escort Calliope to all the best sights of London that she's been dying to see if she agrees to visit his estate and consider what they could accomplish together. What begins as a business arrangement soon sparks something much more complicated--an undeniable chemistry neither can ignore. But as their hearts begin to soften, both must confront their fears: Can Calliope trust Edward with her heart, and can Edward truly win her love when she's convinced he only wants her fortune?]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623927</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623927</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bobulski, Chelsea]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623927082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780764245251/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In My Tudor Era]]></title><description><![CDATA["Love can make you lose your head... Surprise! Not only is Lily now stranded in Tudor England, but she's also juggling a whole host of problems like, say, dodging royal executioners; dealing with the seriously touchy and smoldering courtier Francis Dereham (who may or may not be her actual husband); and falling head over heels for Henry's flirtatious, incredibly sexy, and devilishly handsome court groom. Oh, and did we mention the whole "she's the queen now" thing? Because she is. So what's a girl to do when she's stuck between two hot guys, an entire court full of rumors, and a dangerously short timeline before her head ends up on a chopping block? Modern-day Lily can barely get a guy to show up for a date, let alone keep track of two (possibly murderous) suitors. As the stakes get higher and the bedchamber dramas more...explosive, Lily's got to figure out how to navigate a world that wants to kill her-and try to rewrite history before it's too late"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2617751</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2617751</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bromley, Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2617751082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063444041/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Kiss for Hope]]></title><description><![CDATA["Joshua Penrose has come home from years abroad a sadder, wiser man. He doggedly makes his way to his former abode through a roaring Yuletide snowstorm only to find the house occupied by a lady who claims she owns the place. ... Hope Burdette has been widowed long enough to have seen every confidence trick and swindle aimed at unsuspecting women. She nevertheless did not expect to have the very ownership of her home challenged, much less by such a grouchy, taciturn, un-charming man. ... When the new year arrives, will they be sworn foes or a match made under the mistletoe?"--Page 4 of cover.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2640486</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2640486</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burrowes, Grace]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2640486082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Rogues to Riches Holiday Novella</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781962291644/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Post]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the dark clouds of war finally begin to break, Grace Fitzgerald and Richard Lewis glimpse the possibility of a future together after years of turmoil. Their hard-won love has withstood so much already. Now, as the Allies launch their final assault on the European continent—determined to rid the world of Nazi terror at whatever cost—Grace must say goodbye once again. Richard has a dual mission: to witness and report on the invasion that will decide the world’s fate, and to fulfil a promise to find someone who vanished without a trace.But in Richard's absence, Grace faces her own reckoning. Drawn back to an old adversary, she must fight one final battle. Will their love survive not just the war, but the ghosts of their past?]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2640487</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2640487</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grainger, Jean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2640487082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781917732307/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghost Broker]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the glittering world of the ton, wealth is as important as rank, rank nearly as important as connections. But nothing is as vital to one's success in Society as having the right ghost. What is fashionable in specters changes almost as often as preferred fabrics and necklines, favored Diamonds of Society and admired Town bucks. Trading an unstylish ghost can mean the difference between social success and utter failure. And no one is more adept at facilitating those trades than England's most sought-after ghost broker ... Mercury Raine. Born a penniless orphan, he has made both a name for himself and an enviable fortune. But when the intriguing Miss Huddleston and her overbearing mother arrive at his estate, intent on making an advantageous specter swap, the carefully crafted facade he presents to the world begins to crack. Miss Huddleston has brought a secret, one that could destroy everything he has built.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2640462</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2640462</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eden, Sarah M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2640462082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781968090012/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A False and Fatal Claim]]></title><description><![CDATA["Lane Winslow is known in her idyllic British Columbia laketown of King's Cove for a bad habit of finding dead bodies. This time, all she's found is a suspiciously well-made hat abandoned in the brush, but she's certain there's a mystery afoot. While Lane is overtaken by the urge to snoop around for clues, her husband, Inspector Darling, and his team at the Nelson Police Station find their straightforward case of a stolen boat suddenly complicated when a fourteen-year-old boy is reported missing from the local school. When the search for the boy, the hat's mysterious owner, and the boat lead them to the sudden disappearances of the local café cook, a visiting wealthy investor, and seventy thousand dollars in cash, the case quickly turns into a snarled tangle of missing people and scant, circumstantial evidence. Desperate to keep a vulnerable and possibly violent young boy safe, Lane recruits the neighbours as Darling, Ames, Terrell, and April scour the local towns and wildernesses for answers--all while Ames struggles to focus through wedding jitters, and April and Terrell chafe under the questionable advice of meddlesome old "friends." At first, the daily dramas of King's Cove unfold uninterrupted around the simmering questions at the heart of this far-reaching mystery, but as the case reveals its roots in both the glitzy high society and criminal underground of 1920s Toronto, it soon becomes clear all hands will be needed on deck to get everyone to the coming wedding alive in one piece."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623931</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623931</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Whishaw, Iona]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623931082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771514668/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn the Sea]]></title><description><![CDATA["Abbakka Chowta never expected to be queen. The youngest of Ullal's two rajkumaris, Abbakka has spent years in rigorous combat training to become her sister's blade. But when the monstrous Porcugi attempt to lay claim to Ullal, Abbakka's world--and fate--are upended.  The Porcugi--giant half-men, half-snakes who attack from the sea--haven't been seen in Ullal since their failed invasion more than fifty years ago. But now, they're back with vengeance and a choice: pay their tithes or suffer total devastation. Soon, Abbakka's definitions of strength, subterfuge, and statecraft are put to the test. Will marriage to a neighboring king give her the resources she needs to protect her people . . . or will she watch her homeland be crushed beneath the waves of would-be colonizers?"--Amazon.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623980</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2623980</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tewari, Mona]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623980082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781967967063/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Centroeuropa]]></title><description><![CDATA["Revelations - and frozen corpses - multiply in a small, European village 'Male, Prussian, hussar soldier, frozen. That was the first body I found while digging in the frozen earth to bury my wife.' At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European feudalism is starting to crumble. Newly widowed, Redo Hauptshammer arrives in a small town far from home to claim a plot of arable land and the simple life of a farmer. But when Redo begins to dig up the field, the perfectly preserved, frozen corpse of a soldier emerges. The next day, Redo uncovers two more soldiers, dressed in uniforms of an earlier age. And then there are more. As bodies from past and future wars proliferate exponentially, Redo enlists the aid of eccentric villagers, but risks exposing a precious personal secret and the great love at the heart of it. What will be excavated and what will remain buried? Subtle, subversive, and full of surprises, this ingeniously structured novel heralds a talented writer whose experimentations in style are as dazzling as his humane, spirited story of oppression, erasure, and endurance"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2638242</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2638242</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mora, Vicente Luis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2638242082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781954276529/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tailbone]]></title><description><![CDATA["It's summer 2008, and Seoul is no place for a teenage girl. While the city gets devoured by new wealth and shimmering high-rises, our unnamed narrator is trapped and suffocating in her meager home. After years of enduring her alcoholic father's abuse and her mother's cowardice, she decides to leave. ... Her escape lands her at a cheap boarding-house for single women. There, she is pulled into the orbit of an older girl named Juju. Once a teen runaway hardened by years of getting by on her own, Juju's beauty and grit are irresistible. But when a global financial crisis reaches Korea, fears of a wider economic collapse bring the city to a standstill. ... As businesses close and winter sets in, our narrator must confront her deepening fear for Juju's future and her own uncertain path. Will she stay on the run or go back home to her heartbroken mother?"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.]]></description><link>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2624895</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C2624895</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yeun, Che]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2624895082</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781639737406/MC.GIF&amp;client=kclsp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>