May 2019 list by Katherine N.
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American Princess : A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
by Stephanie Thornton
Theodore Roosevelt's irrepressible daughter Alice makes waves all over Washington D.C., and despite falling for a smooth-talking congressman, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker playing First Daughter intends to emerge triumphant.
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The Beautiful Strangers
by Camille Di Maio
In 1958, Kate Morgan, honors her grandfather's cryptic plea to 'find the beautiful stranger'. The search takes her to Hotel del Coronado, the beachfront landmark on the Southern California coast, where filming is under way on the movie Some Like It Hot. For a movie lover like Kate, it’s a fantasy come true. So, too, is the offer of a position at the glamorous hotel. But Kate soon discovers the hotel is haunted by a woman who did tragically sixty years ago.
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Between Two Shores
by Jocelyn Green
In 1759 Montreal, Catherine Duval has a Mohawk mother and French father, yet is remaining neutral among warring sides, but when her British ex-fiancé is captured by her father she must choose whom to fight for.
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Bowlaway
by Elizabeth McCracken
An unconventional New England family faces scandal, inheritance battles and questions of paternities as viewed through three generations of their owning and operating a candlepin bowling alley in Salford, Massachusetts.
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
by Louis Bayard
When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one’s short list to be president. A country lawyer living above a dry goods shop, he is lacking both money and manners, and his gift for oratory surprises those who meet him. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with an interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. “I can only hope,” she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, “that his waters being so very still, they also run deep.”
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In Another Time
by Jillian Cantor
A bookshop owner in pre-World War II Germany launches a secret effort to save his wife, a Jewish concert violinist who awakens in 1946 Berlin with no memory of the past decade or her husband's fate.
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The Irishman's Daughter
by V. S. Alexander
Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining scraps of land. But when the potato crop falls prey to a devastating blight, families Briana has known all her life are left with no food, no resources, and no mercy from the English landowner.
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Make Me a City
by Jonathan Carr
A fanciful reinterpretation of 19th-century Chicago traces its rise from a frontier settlement to an industrial colossus through the stories of a bombastic speculator, a pioneering woman reporter and the city's unheralded founder.
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Outside Looking In
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
This novel, based on the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary, traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960's Harvard graduate student and his wife.
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The Seamstress
by Allison Pittman
1788: In a tiny French village, during the waning days of peace, cousins Renee and Laurette live a peaceful, relatively contented life as the shepherdesses under the guardianship of the respectable Emile Gagnon. When Renee is given the chance to work as a seamstress at the Palace at Versailles, their lives take two very different paths straight into the heart of the Revolution. Based on a character who appears in the classic, A Tale of Two Cities.
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To Keep The Sun Alive
by Rabeah Ghaffari
Tells the story of an Iranian family and their fruit orchard caught up in the Revolution of 1979.
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When We Left Cuba
by Chanel Cleeton
Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle, Beatriz Perez, who is consumed with revenge and the desire to reclaim the life she lost in the Cuban Revolution, will risk everything--including the man who has stolen her heart.
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Woman 99
by Greer Macallister
Going undercover to rescue her wrongly committed sister from a notorious asylum, Charlotte uncovers a dangerous secret about the institution and why their fellow inmates were put away.
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