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September 2018
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The masterpiece : a novel
by Fiona Davis
A recently divorced information-booth worker stumbles on an abandoned art school within a crumbling Grand Central Terminal before learning the story of a talented woman artist who went missing fifty years earlier
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A tale of two murders
by Heather Redmond
With the help of his boss' attactive, vivacious daughter, young journalist Charles Dickens investigates the death of a young woman that bears unsettling similarities to a murder that occurred a year ago to the day.
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In his father's footsteps : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Two courageous World War II concentration-camp survivors build a life together before their son resolves to be his own person as a first-generation American.
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The last hours
by Minette Walters
Assuming control of her despised late husband's people in the wake of the Black Death, a 14th-century noblewoman struggles to protect formerly oppressed people who have been rendered superstitious and fanatical by the plague.
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Chariot on the mountain
by Jack Ford
Based on little-known true events, a fictional account from an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist recreates a female slave's treacherous journey toward freedom during the days before the Civil War, a time when the traditions of the Old South still existed.
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Caught by surprise
by Jen Turano
When Temperance Flowerdew is abducted on her way to work and put on a train to Chicago, Mr. Gilbert Cavendish rescues the missing woman, but before the two can discover the culprit, they're spotted alone together, risking damage to their reputations
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The prisoner in the castle : a Maggie Hope mystery
by Susan Elia MacNeal
Exiled on a remote Scottish island with other SOE agents, World War II codebreaker Maggie Hope searches for a killer among her fellow spies when they begin to drop off one by one.
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The sapphire widow : a novel
by Dinah Jefferies
Enjoying her life in 1935 Ceylon in spite of heartbreaking miscarriages, the daughter of a successful British gem trader is forced by her husband's sudden death to unravel a mystery involving a local cinnamon plantation and an outdoorsman's checkered past.
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The secret of the Irish castle
by Santa Montefiore
Leaving America for Dublin, Martha falls impossibly in love with a man from her birth mother's community; while Bridie struggles with her new husband's wandering eye, and Kitty reevaluates a past love. Hardcover Library Edition.
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The Hellfire Club
by Jake Tapper
In 1950s Washington, little is as it seems. Charlie Marder, World War II veteran and academic, was thrust into office by his power-broker father's connections. As a congressman, Charlie is determined to use his new position for good, but is confronted by a world in the throes of McCarthyism, where no one trusts anyone. Soon he is questioning his own ethical compass and the morality of men he admires, including his father. Learning about the circumstances of his predecessor's death, Charlie and his wife Margaret are plunged into an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a conspiracy that could change the course of history.
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