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All the Ways We Said Goodbye
by Beatriz Williams
An heiress, a Resistance fighter and a widow find their lives intertwined by their wartime experiences and the turbulent 1960s when they seek refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel.
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The Animals at Lockwood Manor
by Jane Healey
Safeguarding a natural history museum collection that has been relocated to a country manor during World War II, Hetty finds herself stalked by an unknown thief who tests the limits of her sanity. A first novel.
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Cuyahoga
by Pete Beatty
A proto-superhero’s efforts to secure a marriage-worthy fortune in 1837 Ohio place him at the center of a madcap city rivalry involving elderly terrorists, steamboat races, wild pigs and ruined weddings.
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The Hooligans
by Peter T. Deutermann
After his first deployment in 1942 at Guadalcanal, a young surgical resident finds himself transferred aboard a PT (patrol torpedo) boat where he confronts submarines and surface ships, and attacks from both the air and sea.
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The Immortals of Tehran
by Ali Araghi
Learning the story of a centuries-old family curse upon his father’s death, young Ahmad struggles to protect his loved ones through decades of famine, loss and political turmoil before unexpected life changes converge at the height of the Iranian Revolution.
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The Lost Diary of M
by Paul Wolfe
A reimagining of the life of Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer traces her marriage to a CIA chief, presidential affair and LSD experiments before her baffling murder a year after JFK’s assassination.
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Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook
by Celia Rees
Recruited as a spy for the OSS for her educational background and brother’s Oxford connections to help find a war criminal in occupied post-World War II Germany, a young British schoolteacher finds herself surrounded by civilians hiding dubious agendas.
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The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
A historical novel based on the life of the National Book Award-winning author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.
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Run Me to Earth
by Paul Yoon
Three children orphaned in 1960s Laos meet a dedicated doctor who enlists them as motorcycle couriers in his effort to rescue civilians and find medical supplies in a novel from the award-winning author of Snow Hunters.
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Simon the Fiddler
by Paulette Jiles
Conscripted into the Confederate Army after nearly escaping the American Civil War, an itinerant fiddle player joins a ragtag regimental band playing for both sides of the conflict before falling in love with an indentured Irish governess.
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