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The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
by Michelle Young
Based on troves of previously undiscovered documents, The Art Spy chronicles the brave actions of the key Resistance spy in the heart of the Nazi's art looting headquarters in the French capital. A veritable female Monuments Man, Rose Valland has, until now, been written out of the annals, despite bearing witness to history's largest art theft. While Hitler was amassing stolen art for his future Führermuseum, Valland, his undercover adversary, secretly worked to stop him.
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Life Hacks for a Little Alien
by Alice Franklin
Before she thinks of herself as Little Alien, our protagonist is a lonely girl in southeast England who doesn’t understand the world the way other children seem to. So when she learns about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, an ancient tome written in an indecipherable language, Little Alien experiences something she hasn’t before: hope. Could there be others like her, who also feel like they’re from another planet? Convinced the Voynich Manuscript holds the answers she needs, Little Alien and her best (and only) friend Bobby decide they must find this strange book. Where that decision leads them will change everything.
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Park Avenue
by Renâee Ahdieh
As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, Jia promised herself that she would have every luxury when she grew up, and it is all finally within reach. So when her boss asks her to sit in on the hush-hush family implosion of a high-level client, she accepts without hesitation, only to find out that it is one of the most wealthy and famous Korean families in the world. With both the family fortune and legacy under threat from the worst kind of scandal, it's up to Jia to set things right, and she only has a month to do it. Can she find the truth in time to protect the Parks' fortune and secure her success at the firm? And can she hold on to what's most important, even if it means admitting that what she's always wanted isn't what she actually needs?
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The First Gentleman
by James Patterson
The President of the United States is up for reelection and her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.
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The Phoenix Pencil Company
by Allison King
Yun and her cousin, Meng, learn of a special power the women in their family possess: the ability to Reforge a pencil's words. But when the government uncovers their secret, they are forced into a life of espionage, betraying other people's stories to survive. Combining cross-generational family saga and epistolary form with uplifting, emotional magic, Allison King's stunning debut novel asks: who owns and inherits our stories?
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Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
by Gerri Willis
An historical account of wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew. She had it all, money, charm, wit, and the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become a Union spy? The answer was simple: freedom. Right in the heart of the Confederate capital, Elizabeth played the society lady while building a secret espionage network of slaves, Unionists, and prisoners of war. It would cost her almost everything, but it paid off. She had agents in both the Confederate War Department and the Richmond White House, and her couriers provided General Ulysses S. Grant with crucial, daily intelligence for his final assault.
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Snap
by Susin Nielsen
Frances Partridge, fifty-five, is a beloved children's author. Geraint Blevins, forty-one, is an auto mechanic and devoted family man. Parker Poplawski, twenty-three, is just starting her career as a wardrobe assistant on a hit TV show. What do these people have in common? Nothing, that's what. Until each of them reaches a breaking point and snaps in spectacular fashion. They meet in a court-mandated anger management class: three very different people, forced to spend a lot of time together, who slowly end up bonding and helping one another in unexpected ways.
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King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby
When eldest son Roman is summoned home to Jefferson Run, Virginia after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother Dante in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister exhausted from holding the family business together. Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, begins working for the criminals to buy his brother out of trouble while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother
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Flashlight
by Susan Choi
One night, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight and cannot swim. Later Louisa is found alone and barely alive, washed up by the tide. In chapters that shift from one member to the next, turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Susan Choi's Flashlight chases the shockwaves of one family's catastrophe.
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The Lost Masterpiece
by Barbara A. Shapiro
The Lost Masterpiece is a gripping story of love, adultery, betrayal, family secrets, and the grueling birth of Impressionism. Taking readers on a whirlwind adventure from the streets of Paris in the late 1800s and the studio Berthe Morisot shared with Manet, Degas, and Renoir to the present day. Shapiro brings Berthe’s world to life, tracing her work through generations of descendants and introducing us to a painter as brilliant and original as her male counterparts across 150 years of triumphs, struggles, passions, animosities, and malevolence.
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How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle
by Ray Dalio
In this groundbreaking book, Ray Dalio, one of the greatest investors of our time who anticipated the 2008 global financial crisis and the 2010-12 European debt crisis, shares for the first time his detailed explanation of what he calls the 'Big Debt Cycle.' Understanding this cycle is critical for helping policymakers, investors, and the general public grasp where we are and where we are headed with the debt issue. Dalio's model points toward surprisingly straightforward solutions for dealing with the debt problems that the US, Europe, Japan, and China face today.
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