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Women's Literature JUNE 2024
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Shelterwood
by Lisa Wingate
Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an unlikely band with others like themselves, struggling to stay one step ahead of those who seek to exploit them... or worse.
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For the Love of Summerby Susan MalleryFearing she's losing her teen daughter to her “other family,” a Seattle salon owner is shocked when her ex-husband is arrested and her daughter convinces her to take in her stepmother, desperate for a friend.
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Husbands & Lovers
by Beatriz Williams
Two women, separated by decades and continents, but sharing an exotic family heirloom, search for their lost loves and reclaim secrets, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Summer Wives.
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Enlightenment by Sarah PerryTwo unlikely best friends in Aldleigh, England investigate the mystery of a vanished 19th century explorer uncovering a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit, in the new novel from the author of The Essex Serpent.
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The Neighbor Favor
by Kristina Forest
Enlisting the help of her new neighbor to find a date for her sister's wedding, not realizing he is her favorite fantasy author—the very same one who ghosted her months ago—aspiring children's book author Lily Greene finds this simple favor between them becoming anything but.
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What You Leave Behind
by Wanda M. Morris
Returning to her childhood home in Georgia, Deena Wood, when a landowner fighting to keep his family's land, dating back to the Civil War, disappears, and his property is quickly put up for sale, exposes a deadly scheme of illegal land grabs and property redevelopment that threatens her community and family.
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Tangled Up In You
by Christina Lauren
Raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her 22 years, Ren, who has never held an iPhone or engaged in social media, attends Corona College where she's partnered with Fitz, a handsome, rich player, for a simple assignment, which unexpectedly throws both their lives off course.
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If the Shoe Fits
by Julie Murphy
In this modern-retelling of Cinderella, plus-size Cindy dreams of becoming a shoe designer. But when a spot opens up on her stepmother's famous reality dating TV competition, Cindy is thrust into the spotlight in ways she never thought possible.
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One Of Our Kind by Nicola YoonMoving their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, hoping to find a community of like-minded people, Jasmyn, perplexed and frustrated by most residents' outlook, discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders and must save her loved ones from embracing the Liberty way of life.
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Same Time Next Summer
by Annabel Monaghan
While touring a wedding venue near her family's Long Island beach house, Sam runs into Wyatt, the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen, and finds her memories flooding back, remembering who she used to be and the undeniable connection between them, forcing her to make a choice.
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