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The Blue Maiden: A Novel
by Anna Noyes
In 1825 Sweden, sisters Beata and Ulrika, obsessed by their absent mother and Berggrund Island's dark past, find the arrival of a mysterious outsider leading them to The Blue Maiden island, the storied home of the Witches' Sabbath and Satan's realm, where they find the answers they've been searching for.
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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
by Philippa Gregory
The New York Times best-selling historical novelist draws on an enormous archive of primary and secondary sources to rewrite history. Focusing on the agency, persistence and effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and cultural transition, Gregory redefines "normal" female behavior to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making and sainthood.
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The Briar Club
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. But when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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The Phoenix Bride: A Novel
by Natasha Siegel
After a plague devastates England in 1666, young widow Cecilia Thorowgood, isolated in her older sister's London townhouse, falls in love with a new physician. But to be together, they must endure prejudice, heartbreak and calamity.
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The Lost Coast: A Novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye. Clay is brought a fraud case that begins with a man surprised to learn that he's been named the executor of his grandmother's estate. Her accounts are a mess, and not everything is adding up. As Clay dives deeper into a decades-old scheme targeting the vulnerable, his investigation leads him to a bizarre town buried in the remote California wilderness. The residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions, and they'll do just about anything to shut him up.
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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia
An award-winning Indian-British journalist and commentator shows how artificial intelligence systems are shaping people's lives around the globe and explores the perils and inequities of the growing reliance on automated decision-making.
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The Wishing Game: A Novel
by Meg Shaffer
The Clock Island books were Lucy's passion and refuge as a child, and now she shares them with her orphaned student Christopher. Lucy would love to adopt Christopher, but the idea seems out of reach without proper funds and stability. Then, Lucy and three other diehard Clock Island fans are invited by the reclusive author to compete for the unpublished manuscript of the final novel. For Lucy, a chance to read the last-ever Clock Island book is a prize worth playing for, but the possibility of winning and securing a better future for herself and Christopher means everything. But first, she must contend with opportunists, cheaters, and the author’s companion.
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Slow Dance
by Rainbow Rowell
Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, 33-year-old Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up in, attends a high school friend's wedding in hopes of seeing Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.
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Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
by Amorina Kingdon
Synthesizing historical discoveries with the latest scientific research, an award-winning science journalist takes us beneath the surface of the ocean to show the repercussions of human-made sound on the marine world's delicate acoustic ecosystems, issuing a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes.
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Goddess of the River
by Vaishnavi Patel
From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Kaikevi comes a powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, Prince Devavrata. The two are drawn together again and again, each confluence another step on a path that has been written in the stars, in this deeply moving and masterful tale of duty, destiny, and the unwavering bond between mother and son.
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan Friss
Drawing on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers, this ode to bookstores discusses its central place in American cultural life and offers a captivating look at this institution beloved by so many.
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The Lost Story: A Novel
by Meg Shaffer
Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes—just in case. Forced to return to the enchanted world they called home for six months 15 years ago to confront their shared past no matter how traumatic the memories, reclusive artist Rafe and famed missing persons' investigator Jeremy search for their friend Emilie's sister?—?and for everything they've lost.
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Eruption
by Michael Crichton
Two of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades.
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