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The Curse of Pietro Houdini
by Derek B. Miller
Equal parts heist novel and coming-of-age story, this fast-paced tale of wartime crime follows an Italian teenager named Massimo as the titular artist saves his life, enlists his help hiding priceless art from the Nazis, and entrusts him with smuggling three undiscovered Titian paintings from the abbey at Montecassino to Naples.
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| The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan ChurchSeventeen-year-old Lorraine wants to be first female valedictorian at her high school and the first woman in space, unusual dreams for a girl in 1960s North Carolina. Her dreams only become more distant when she's sent to a "maternity home" after discovering she's pregnant, but the ambitious and driven Lorraine is determined to make the best of a seemingly dwindling list of possibilities for her future. |
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Ours
by Phillip B. Williams
Sweeping through 1830s Arkansas to rescue enslaved people, Saint, a fearsome conjuror, creates a town magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours, but, over time, as the town becomes vulnerable to intruders, some people wonder whether the community's safety might by yet another form of bondage.
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| The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara DonatiResourceful nurse and midwife Carrie Ballentyne (granddaughter of Elizabeth Middleton, who readers first met in Into the Wilderness) leaves her position at a New York charity hospital in 1857 for a job in the New Mexico Territory, embarking on a journey as rife with danger and distress as it is rich with possibility and opportunities to save lives. |
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Goldenseal
by Maria Hummel
After decades of estrangement from each other, former best friends Lacey and Edith examine their relationship, which dates back to the summer camp they met at in the 1930s. Over the course of a tense and revealing dinner, the two women confront the things that drove them apart and what they find left in the ruins of their friendship.
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Diva
by Daisy Goodwin
Diva is a well-researched and richly detailed fictionalized account of the complex, scandalous extramarital affair between shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and legendary opera singer Maria Callas. For fans of: An Unofficial Marriage by Joie Davidow.
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| Double Lives by Mary MonroeIn this atmospheric and compelling 4th entry in Mary Monroe's series of novels set in the status-obsessed, Jim Crow era Black community of Lexington, Alabama, identical twin sisters Fiona and Leona take their childhood trick of occasionally switching places into much more fraught territory as adults, with much higher stakes to match. |
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| I Am Rome by Santiago PosteguilloDramatic and well-researched, this series opener by Spanish crime and historical fiction author Santiago Posteguillo delves into the early life and career of Roman statesman Gaius Julius Caesar, framed around his first big political move -- serving as prosecutor in the corruption trial of Dollabella, a senator and former governor of Macedonia. |
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The Phoenix Crown
by Kate Quinn
Offered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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| A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose SutherlandThis queer retelling of classic Celtic folktale The Selkie Wife takes place in 1830s Nova Scotia, where midwife Jean Langille assists Muirin, a woman going into labor on a nearby beach. The two form a strong bond despite a language barrier, which only grows deeper when Jean mistakes Muirin's behavior for postpartum depression. |
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