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The Secret Wife
by Gill Paul
A Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world's greatest mysteries. Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. 2016: Kitty Fisher escapes to her great-grandfather's remote cabin in America, after a devastating revelation makes her flee London. There, on the shores of Lake Akanabee, she discovers the spectacular jewelled pendant that will lead her to a long-buried family secret.
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The Lost Order
by Steve Berry
When rival factions of a dangerous clandestine organization begin a race to find billions in stolen treasure hidden by their progenitors, Justice Department agent Cotton Malone finds the case complicated by his unsuspected ties to the organization and the political schemes of an unscrupulous politician.
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Compass
by Mathias Énard
Taking to his sickbed with an unspecified illness as night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life, including his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a brilliant French scholar caught in the complex tension between Europe and the Middle East.
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An extraordinary union
by Alyssa Cole
uring the Civil War two undercover agents, Elle Burns, a former slave, and Malcolm McCall, a detective in Pinkerton’s Secret Service, uncover a plot that could lead to a Confederate victory and vow to preserve the Union at any cost.
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What it means when a man falls from the sky : Stories
by Lesley Nneka Arimah
A debut collection by a prize-winning writer explores the ties that bind people to each other and their homes as reflected in stories featuring generations of women haunted by the ghosts of war, a daughter who is outraged by the return of her believed-dead mother and a decimated refugee world where resolutions have unforeseen consequences.
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Swimmer among the stars : stories
by Kanishk Tharoor
A collection of short stories combines elements from ancient history and modern times and includes tales about the United Nations moving to an orbiting space hotel after Manhattan is destroyed, and the marauding army of Genghis Khan.
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Lola : a novel
by Melissa Scrivner Love
Hiding her role as the true leader of a small gang in South Central Los Angeles, Lola pretends to be the submissive girlfriend of the gang's purported boss while her intelligence and leadership are increasingly tested by high-stakes betrayals and escalating violence between rival drug cartels. A first novel.
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The hideaway
by Lauren K. Denton
After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags's ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay, Alabama. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed her The Hideaway and charged her with renovating it--no small task. Then she discovers a box Mags left in the attic with clues to a life Sara never imagined for her grandmother. With help from Mags'sfriends, Sara begins to piece together the mysterious life of bravery, passion, and choices that changed Mags's destiny in both marvelous and devastating ways.
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Spaceman of Bohemia
by Jaroslav Kalfar
Raised by his grandparents on the Czech countryside and rising to be the country's first astronaut, Jakub abandons his wife to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer by accepting a dangerous solo mission to Venus and encounters fantastical, philosophical elements before clashing with Russian rivals. A first novel.
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The stolen child : a novel
by Lisa Carey
Sharing a hardy and resourceful life on a mid-20th-century island off the coast of Ireland, sisters Rose and Emer meet American newcomer Brigid, who has recently inherited a family estate on the island and would find a secret holy well rumored to grant miracles. By the award-winning author of The Mermaids Singing.
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Beartown : a novel
by Fredrik Backman
In a forgotten town fractured by scandal, an amateur hockey team might just be able to change everything. By the New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove.
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The stars are fire
by Anita Shreve
A novel based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history follows the experiences of a pregnant woman who struggles to protect her two young children and watches her home burn while her husband joins the volunteer firefighters. By the best-selling author of The Pilot's Wife.
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American war
by Omar El Akkad
A first novel by an award-winning journalist depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century that forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who would transform her into a living weapon.
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The horse dancer
by Jojo Moyes
A headstrong teen quietly training to become an elite equestrian to fulfill her ailing grandfather's ambitions is taken in by a struggling lawyer and her estranged husband, whose lives are thrown into turmoil by a devastating secret. By the best-selling author of Me Before You.
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