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May 2018
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Country dark
by Chris Offutt
A long-awaited new novel by the award-winning author of The Good Brother is set in rural Kentucky between the Korean War and 1970 and follows the efforts of a young veteran and bootlegger who is pushed into a life-altering act of violence by threats against his family.
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My Dear Hamilton : A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
by Stephanie Dray
The best-selling authors of America's First Daughter draws on thousands of letters and original sources in an epic retelling of the life of Eliza Hamilton that describes her passionate dedication to a fledgling America's independence, her unlikely marriage to penniless but brilliant officer Alexander Hamilton and the turmoil and tragedies that challenged her legacy.
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Varina
by Charles Frazier
Forced by limited prospects to marry much-older widower Jefferson Davis, teenaged Varina Howell finds her expectations as the wife of a Mississippi landowner upended by his appointment as the leader of the Confederacy, a situation that renders her and her children fugitives in a divided and increasingly hostile nation.
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Orphan Monster Spy
by Matt Killeen
When her mother is shot at a checkpoint in 1939 Germany, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jewish teen agrees to help a mysterious man who asks her to help the resistance against the Third Reich by posing as the daughter of a wealthy Nazi to gain access to a scientist's weapon designs.
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I was Anastasia : a novel
by Ariel Lawhon
An evocative retelling of the Anastasia survival myth follows the appearance of a traumatized, badly scarred young woman who claims to be the youngest Romanov daughter, launching a half-century of questions, accusations and changing perspectives on identity as conveyed by her supporters and detractors. By the author of Flight of Dreams.
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Beneath a prairie moon : a novel
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Banned from high society in the wake of her father's illegal activities, Abigail takes an unlikely job tutoring rough Kansas ranchers on the subjects of morals and manners to make them better candidates for mail-order brides before falling for a man who disdains city elitism. By the award-winning author of Bringing Maggie Home.
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Circe
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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