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Foregone
by Russell Banks
A septuagenarian leftist documentary filmmaker gives a last interview from his mythologized life to a former star student to whom he discloses his experiences as a draft dodger who fled to a new life in Montreal.
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In Love's Time
by Kate Breslin
In the summer of 1918, Captain Marcus Weatherford arrives in Russia on a secret mission, with a beautiful ballerina posing as his fiancée. Marcus searches for the Romanov tsarina and her son – who both allegedly survived the murdering Bolsheviks – and the information behind an allied plot to assassinate Lenin. But Marcus's sense of duty battles his desire to return home to Clare – his actual love. Hospital orderly Clare Danner still suffers from Marcus's betrayal and now fears losing her daughter to the heartless family who took Daisy away from Clare once before, but only Marcus can provide the critical proof needed to save her daughter. Faced with danger and unexpected circumstances, can Clare trust Marcus, or will he shatter her world yet again?
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Resistance Women
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Resisting the power grabs of an increasingly formidable Nazi Party in 1930s Berlin, the courageous American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends engage in a clandestine battle to sabotage Hitler's regime.
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The Night Travelers
by Armando Lucas Correa
Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
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Trust
by Hernán Díaz
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920's-1930's New York City.
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Set the Stars Alight
by Amanda Dykes
Reeling from her parents' deaths, Lucy Claremont discovers an artifact in their London flat, leading her to a seaside estate. Aided by her childhood friend Dashel, a forensic astronomer, they start to unravel a history of heartbreak, sacrifice, and love begun 200 years prior-one that may heal them both.
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The Lindbergh Nanny
by Mariah Fredericks
In 1932 New Jersey, Lindbergh nanny Betty Gow, after toddler Charles Lindbergh Jr. is kidnapped, becomes a suspect in the eyes of both the media and public, and must find the truth in order to clear her name and find justice for the child she loves.
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People of the Canyons
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
A healer allies himself with a witch hunter to prevent a tyrant from claiming an artifact of power, while his adopted granddaughter uncovers terrifying truths about her parents.
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Tidelands
by Philippa Gregory
In a tale set during England's mid-17th-century civil war, an herbalist seeking to escape an abusive relationship is targeted by witchcraft mania in her tidelands community.
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The Falcon of Sparta
by Conn Iggulden
In an ancient Persian empire torn by civil war, the young soldier Xenophon leads his decimated Spartan army in a confrontation against the legendary warriors of Artaxerxes II.
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Bloomsbury Girls
by Natalie Jenner
A compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world. Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans. Vivien Lowry, Grace Perkins, and Evie Stone and their complex web of relationships, goals and dreams are all working to plot out a future that is richer and more rewarding than anything society will allow.
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Marmee
by Sarah Miller
In 1861, Margaret March, with her husband serving as an army chaplain, finds the comfort and security of her four daughters resting on her shoulders alone as she faces financial hardships, secrets, and tragedy, in this revealing retelling of Little Women from the perspective of the beloved matriarch known as Marmee.
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Destined for You
by Tracie Peterson
After smallpox kills her mother and siblings, Gloriana Womack is dedicated to holding together what's left of her fractured family. Luke Carson arrives in Duluth to shepherd the arrival of the railroad and reunite with his brother. When tragedy strikes, Gloriana and Luke must help each other through their grief and soon find their lives inextricably linked.
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