July 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford
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America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
A year ago Pival Sengupta's beloved son, Rahi, devastated his very traditional parents when he told them he was gay. Then, Pival’s husband, Ram, told her that their son had died suddenly—news Pival has never been able to accept. Now the newly widowed Pival is going to America to find Rahi, alive and whole or dead and gone, and come to terms with her own life.
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The Book of Hidden Things
by Francesco Dimitri
Four old school friends have a pact: to meet up every year in the small town they grew up in. Art, the charismatic leader of the group and creator of the pact, insists that the agreement must remain unshakable and enduring. But this year, he never shows up.
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Cat Flap
by Alan S. Cowell
"When she awoke as a cat, Dolores Tremayne saw no immediate advantage in having four paws instead of two arms and two legs…" But then she witnesses the shocking behavior of her errant husband. When the cat’s away, the mice will play – but who will oversee the cat?
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Caught in Time
by Julie McElwain
Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer, a stone-cold killer―one who has a shocking secret that he will do anything to protect. Kendra Donovan series.
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Chariot on the Mountain
by Jack Ford
Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family’s slaves—and Samuel’s biological daughter.
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European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
by Theodora Goss
In the sequel to The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature’s mad scientists embark on a madcap and adventurous romp across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop the Alchemical Society’s nefarious plans once and for all. The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series.
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Every Time You Go Away
by Beth Harbison
Willa has never fully recovered from the sudden death of her husband, Ben. Now, years after Ben’s death, Willa finally decides to return to the beach house where he passed. It’s time to move on. Willa enlists her son, Jamie, and her best friend to join her for one last summer at the beach. As buried feelings come to the surface, Willa searches for the chance to say goodbye to her husband and to reconnect with her son.
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The Garden Party
by Grace Dane Mazur
The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals—academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal–reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. Tonight these two families, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner in the garden.
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Heart Land
by Kimberly Stuart
A story of reconnection, lost love, and the power of faith. Grace Klaren, a struggling fashion designer, is back in her small Iowa hometown, trying to follow her dreams of success and finding true love. Soon Grace must decide where home really is—will she chase her long-held New York dream, or find a new dream here in the heartland?
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The Late Bloomers' Club
by Louise Miller
Nora, the owner of the Miss Guthrie Diner, is perfectly happy serving up apple cider donuts, coffee, and eggs-any-way-you-like'em to her regulars. But her life is soon shaken when she discovers she and her free-spirited, younger sister Kit stand to inherit the town's largest estate. Nora is beginning to discover that doing the right thing doesn't always mean giving up your dreams.
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The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly
by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Martha and her friends are Determined to do more for their fellow pensioners—and jazz things up for themselves—they’re up to their usual antics: bank robberies, money laundering, and figuring out how to disappear in a garbage-truck-cum-getaway-car. This wily group of walker-equipped conspirators are hell-bent on accomplishing their dangerous mission—no matter the consequences… The League of Pensioners series.
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Mary B
by Katherine J. Chen
"I will tell you the story of how I knew myself to be plain and therefore devoid of the one virtue which it behooves every woman to have." What is to be done with Mary Bennet? As her sisters wed, Mary pictures herself growing old, a spinster with no estate to run or children to mind. At least she has the silent rebellion and secret pleasures of reading and writing to keep her company.
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Matchmaking for Beginners
by Maddie Dawson
Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary life—a husband, kids, and a minivan in the suburbs. Now that she’s marrying the man of her dreams, she’s sure this is the life she’ll get. Then Marnie meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé’s irascible matchmaking great-aunt, and everything changes—just as Blix told her it would.
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An Ocean of Minutes
by Thea Lim
In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.
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A Terrible Country
by Keith Gessen
Andrei moves back to Russia to care for his ailing grandmother, into the apartment that Stalin himself gave her. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can’t always remember who he is. Slowly, Andrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow, looking after his elderly—but surprisingly sharp!—grandmother. But now Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate.
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The Way of Beauty
by Camille Di Maio
Vera Keller finds her life upended when the man she loves becomes engaged to another woman. But Angelo Bellavia has also inadvertently opened up Vera’s life to unexpected possibilities. Now devoting herself to the suffrage movement, Vera finds her choices will define not only her future but also that of her daughter, Alice.
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