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The Age of Light
by Whitney Scharer
A debut novel inspired by the life of the Vogue model-turned-renowned photographer finds Lee Miller relocating to 1929 Paris, where she becomes the muse and colleague of the mercurial Surrealist, Man Ray.
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American Spy
by Lauren Wilkinson
A Cold War FBI intelligence officer joins an undercover task force to seduce a revolutionary African Communist president she secretly admires and comes to love, in a story inspired by true events.
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The Border
by Don Winslow
Promoted by the DEA after a crucial victory, Art Keller is targeted by the power-hungry traffickers behind an American heroin epidemic. By the best-selling author of The Force.
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The Cassandra
by Sharma Shields
A woman takes a job at a top-secret research facility during World War II, only to become tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. By the award-winning author of The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac.
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The Cornwalls Are Gone
by James Patterson
An intelligence officer must use lethal tactics in open defiance of Army Command when a mysterious adversary kidnaps her family and gives her 48 hours to commit an unspeakable crime.
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Daisy Jones & the Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.
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Goodbye, Paris
by Anstey Harris
After her long-term partner breaks up with her, Grace Atherton, who owns a violin shop, is faced with feelings of intense loneliness, but when she becomes friends with an elderly musician and a young teenager they give her the strength to rebuild her life.
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The Hiding Place
by C. J. Tudor
A teacher with a hidden agenda returns to a school he once attended to settle old scores, only to uncover a secret with dark, unimaginable consequences.
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The Huntress
by Kate Quinn
Stranded behind enemy lines, brave bomber pilot Nina Markova becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress and joins forces with a Nazi hunter and British war correspondent to find her before she finds them.
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I Owe You One
by Sophie Kinsella
Struggling to hold her late father's business together in spite of her less-motivated siblings, Fixie Farr cashes in an IOU from a handsome stranger to find employment for her childhood crush.
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The Irishman's Daughter
by V. S. Alexander
Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. But when the potato crop falls prey to a devastating blight, families Briana has known all her life are left with no food, no resources, and no mercy from the English landowner, who seems indifferent to everything except profit. Rory Caulfield, the hard-working young farmer Briana hopes to marry, shares the locals’ despair — and their anger. But even as hunger and disease settle over the country, killing and displacing millions, Briana knows she must find a way to guide her family through one of Ireland’s darkest hours—toward hope, love, and a new beginning
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The Last Romantics
by Tara Conklin
When she is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, renowned poet Fiona Skinner recounts the summer her family spent in a middle-class Connecticut town.
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
The ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires.
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The Light Over London
by Julia Kelly
Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques-dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man named Paul.
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The Martin Chronicles
by John Fried
A young boy matures from the ages of 11 to 17 in 1980s Manhattan, a coming-of-age marked by the throes of adolescence, increasing neighborhood violence and incremental difficulties with knowing right from wrong.
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Me for You
by Lolly Winston
A widower pianist finds his efforts to move on after the murder of his beloved wife complicated by police suspicion, an ex's reappearance and an adult child with marital problems.
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Miraculum
by Steph Post
The year is 1922. The carnival is Pontilliar’s Spectacular Star Light Miraculum, staked out on the Texas-Louisiana border. One blazing summer night, a mysterious stranger steps onto the midway, lights a cigarette and forever changes the world around him.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Realizing that her beautiful, beloved younger sister has murdered yet another boyfriend, an embittered Nigerian woman works to direct suspicion away from the family, until a handsome doctor she fancies asks for her sister's number
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The Object of Your Affections
by Falguni Kothari
Paris asks her recently widowed best friend, Naira, to be her and her husband's surrogate as they try to conceive a child, but the two best friends cannot anticipate the pushback from society, their families, and even their own biology.
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The Perfect Alibi
by Phillip Margolin
Two rape cases at the same bar are complicated by a prominent athlete's threats, baffling DNA evidence, suspicious attacks on case lawyers and a D.A.'s resolve to prosecute a killing in self-defense.
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Praise Song for the Butterflies
by Bernice L McFadden
Sacrificed into ritual servitude at a brutal religious shrine where she endures unspeakable acts, a once-privileged daughter is rescued after 15 years and navigates trauma and scrutiny in order to heal.
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The Ragged Edge of Night
by Olivia Hawker
Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage — in name only — to a man who can help raise her three children.
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Revolution Sunday
by Wendy Guerra
After traveling to Spain to accept a prestigious award, Cleo, a promising young writer, returns home to Cuba where she finds herself under constant surveillance by the government until she meets and falls in love with a Hollywood filmmaker who shows her the truth through his lens.
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A Spy in Exile
by Jonathan De Shalit
Recruited into an elite classified unit answerable only to the Israeli prime minister, a former Mossad agent becomes targeted by the militant Red Army Faction and a radical Islam splinter group.
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This Shall be a House of Peace
by Phil Halton
When a student is badly beaten at a checkpoint in warlord-ruled south Afghanistan, his teacher leads the rest of the students back to the checkpoint to force the bandits out, unknowingly setting into motion a chain of events that alters the balance of power.
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The Victory Garden
by Rhys Bowen
Marrying an Australian pilot during World War I, Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate where she finds inspiration and support in an herbalist's long-forgotten journals. By the award-winning author of The Tuscan Child
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The Wall
by John Lanchester
When the island nation of an Earth-like world builds a concrete barrier around its entire coastline, a Defender charged with protecting his section of the Wall from the desperate Others trapped outside begins questioning the political divides of his insular existence.
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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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