March 2019 list by Nanette Alderman
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American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
by Karen Harper
The best-selling author of Dark Angel reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
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As Is
by Rachel Michael Arends
Gwendolyn Golden and Armand Leopold are America's go-to couple for home decorating tips, letting the cameras into their "So Perfect" house, "So Perfect" marriage, and "So Perfect" life. But when a picture of Armand kissing another man hits the newsstands, their "So Perfect" empire crumbles.
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California Girls
by Susan Mallery
The California sunshine's not quite so bright for three sisters who get dumped in the same week... Finola, a popular LA morning-show host, is famously upbeat until she's blindsided on live TV by the news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation.
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
by Anissa Gray
When their formidably strong-willed eldest sister is arrested, abruptly transitioning their family from respectability to disgrace, two younger sisters confront complicated dynamics in their family and identities to uncover what really happened.
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Early Riser
by Jasper Fforde
The best-selling author of the Nursery Crimes series imagines the reader as a first-winter employee with the misfit Winter Consuls, who protect the world's hibernating masses until an outbreak of viral nightmares starts triggering mysterious deaths.
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Finding Dorothy
by Elizabeth Letts
Reimagines the story behind the creation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, whose hardscrabble life on the Dakota prairie inspires her husband's masterpiece and her advocacy of an exploited Judy Garland.
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Firespill
by Ian Slater
In the early dawn fog off the coast of Southern Alaska, two million-ton tankers collide. Both are fully loaded: the American Kodiak with crude oil; the Russian Sakhalin with high octane. It's a nightmare scenario that becomes an international disaster of epic proportions when a single match ignites nearly two thousand square miles of ocean.
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The Hunting Party
by Lucy Foley
A group of thirty-something Oxford friends celebrate New Year's Eve in the Scottish Highlands as a historic blizzard hits, trapping and isolating them, only to discover one of them is a murderer.
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Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
The award-winning author of Tell Me How It Ends traces a profoundly human family summer road trip across America that is shaped by historical and modern displacement tragedies as well as a growing rift between the two parents.
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The New Colossus
by Marshall Goldberg
Tasked with solving a murder that has confounded the police, Nellie Bly investigates the death of Emma Lazarus, a controversial poet and activist, uncovering layers of corruption within the local government.
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The Night Tiger
by Yangsze Choo
A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy who would protect his late master's soul.
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Open Carry
by Marc Cameron
Skilled tracker U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter must leave his comfort zone in the Florida swamplands to investigate the murder of a Tlingit Indian girl in the wilds of southeast Alaska. By the best-selling author of Tom Clancy Power and Empire.
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Out of the Blue
by Sally Mandel
Once a dedicated athlete, Anna Bolles saw her life change radically after a multiple sclerosis diagnosis five years ago. Now she fills her days with the vibrancy of life in New York City, teaching at a private school, but shutting the door on any possible romance.
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The Raven Tower
by Ann Leckie
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ancillary series presents a debut work of fantasy involving gods that speak to mortals, usurped thrones and world-changing stakes.
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Same Same
by Peter Mendelsund
A minor accident in the simulated environment of a Middle Eastern institute introduces a new employee to a mysterious shop where replicas of original items can be instantly reproduced, transforming his understandings of creation and existence.
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Say You're Sorry
by Karen Rose
A special agent receives a vital piece of evidence on a cold case from a woman whose fighting skills helped her escape a serial killer still on the loose. By the award-winning author of Death Is Not Enough.
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The Sisters Hemingway
by Annie England Noblin
From the author of Sit! Stay! Speak! comes the story of three sisters who reunite after their beloved aunt’s death to repair their fractured relationships.
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Vacuum in the Dark
by Jen Beagin
A young house cleaner in New Mexico balances a bad, junkie boyfriend with a bad, unstable boyfriend who happens to be married to one of her clients as she embarks on an eccentric journey of self-discovery and redemption.
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Virgins
by Caryl Rivers
For the seniors at Immaculate Heart High, hormones triumphed over the State of Grace—and everyone's vocation was to DO IT. The Map of Forbidden Sexual Delights extended its boundaries nightly in the back seats of tail-finned cars. And nothing—not even the Anti-Smut League—could keep the boys and the girls from a rowdy, raunchy romp through those heart-stopping, heart-wrenching days of growing up!
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We Must Be Brave
by Frances Liardet
Caring for a lost child during the chaotic 1940 evacuation of her once-quiet Southampton village, a woman who never believed she wanted children finds herself unexpectedly at a loss when the child is taken away.
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When You Read This
by Mary Adkins
After his friend, Iris, dies from a terminal illness at age 33, PR genius Smith Simonyi teams up with Iris’ sister, Jade, to make Iris’ final request—to get her blog posts published as a book—a reality.
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The Winter Sister
by Megan Collins
Haunted by her sister's unsolved death 16 years earlier, Sylvie returns home to care for her ailing mother and navigates complicated feelings of suspicion and guilt when she encounters her late sister's former boyfriend.
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