March 2020 list by Katherine N.
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The Body Outside the Kremlin
by James L. May
At Solovetsky, a remote island prison in the White Sea, a skeleton crew of secret-policemen oversee prisoners, some who are forced laborers, and others who sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence, hopes his aquaintance with Gennady Antonov will improve Tolya’s odds of reassignment. But when Antonov's body is discovered floating frozen in the bay, their connection turns dangerou.
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Cartier's Hope
by M. J. Rose
Determined to make her mark in Gilded Age New York, a woman journalist investigates rumors and curses swirling around Pierre Cartier’s recently acquired Hope Diamond, before attracting the attention of the blackmailer behind her father’s death.
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The Girls With No Names
by Serena Burdick
In 1910s New York City, a girl goes missing and her younger sister hatches an audacious plan to be admitted to the House of Mercy, a home for wayward girls, risking everything to bring her older sister home.
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The Hollows
by Jess Montgomery
In 1926 Appalachian Ohio, Newly-elected sheriff Lily Ross investigates the death of a mysterious woman who was killed while walking along a railroad shortcut called Moonvale Tunnel. Her investigation uncovers dark secrets about the WKKK and the Underground Railroad.
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Lady Clementine
by Marie Benedict
A historical tale inspired by the life of Clementine Churchill that traces her unflinching role in protecting the life and wartime agendas of her husband, Winston Churchill.
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Light Changes Everything
by Nancy E. Turner
It’s the summer of 1907 in Arizona Territory, Mary Pearl and her sister Esther take their minds off the heat by sneaking banned Jane Austen novels from Aunt Sarah Elliot’s lively bookshelf. But things are about to change now that Mary Pearl been accepted to Wheaton College. At the northern school, unsophisticated Mary Pearl not only learns how to write and draw, but also how to act, dress, and be a woman.
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Little Gods
by Meng Jin
After Liya's mother, Su Lan, dies unexpectedly, Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known.
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The Moonshiner's Daughter
by Donna Everhart
Set in North Carolina in 1960, and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner’s Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family’s past .
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The Orphan Sisters
by Shirley Dickson
Abandoned in early childhood to an English orphanage by their financially struggling mother, sisters Etty and Dorothy are finally released from Blakely Hall only to find their bond and prospects complicated by the realities of World War II.
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Remembrance
by Rita Woods
Looks at present-day Ohio, 1791 Haiti, and 1857 New Orleans, in which house girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday -- and her promised freedom. Desperate, she escapes and tries to find Remembrance, a rumored stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Stay
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Walking in the woods in 1969 to escape the pain of his brother’s Vietnam tour and complicated family troubles, 14-year-old Lucas bonds with a tragic woman who has given up on life. Lucas tries to bring some happiness back to her life.
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An Uncommon Woman
by Laura Frantz
In the borderlands of 1770 West Virginia there is no place for finer feelings. Charged with keeping the peace with local tribes, a hero of the French and Indian War is determined to stay free of romantic entanglement--until he meets a frontier woman who just might be able to change his mind.
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Westering Women
by Sandra Dallas
Joining other mail-order brides on a dangerous wagon journey to the gold mines of 1852 Chicago, a seamstress with painful secrets discovers strengths she did not know she possessed among a growing sisterhood of fellow women pioneers.
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The Whispers of War
by Julia Kelly
Three friends struggle between their loyalties to England and each other when one of them is threatened with internment by the British government for her German heritage during World War II.
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The Words I Never Wrote
by Jane Thynne
Impulsively purchasing an antique typewriter that once belonged to a celebrated journalist, a photographer in present-day New York discovers an unpublished novel in the case, igniting a transatlantic journey to uncover the writer’s family secrets.
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