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Ana Maria and The Fox
by Liana De la Rosa
A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season. Ana Maria Luna Valdes has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna family. So when Ana Maria is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge from the French occupation of Mexico, she experiences her first taste of freedom far from the judgmental eyes of her domineering father. If only she could ignore the piercing looks she receives across ballroom floors from the austere Mr. Fox.
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Forget Me Never
by Susan Wittig Albert
Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, Forget Me Not, A Crime Victim's Storyboard, which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now, she has a stunning story to tell about a decades old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs someone who isn't the man everybody thinks he is. But she is killed by a hit and run driver while she's out jogging early one morning. was it an accident or something else?
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I've Got My Mind Set on Brew
by Stephanie Jayne
Kat Malone is left cash strapped after a job loss and a bad breakup, pro tip, never offer to pay living expenses for a freeloading poetry major when she discovers a surprising new career path: craft beer brewer. When the brewpub she works at is sold, the new owner places his light on experience son in charge of the pub. Ryan is as basic as a pale lager and aims to turn quirky resistance into a run of the mill sports bar. Worse, he won't consider Kat for the position of brewer's assistant the job she'd been promised by the previous owners.
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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
by Janet Skeslillen Charles
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen, Children's Libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.
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The Goddess of Warsaw : a Novel
by Lisa Barr
A legendary Hollywood screen goddess, Lena Browning uses her power and fame to get revenge on the Nazis who escaped justice after the war, hoping to right the past's wrongs, but when an old enemy resurfaces, she must use her skills to protect herself and those she loves, then and now.
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The Storm We Made: a Novel
by Vanessa Chan
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen year old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth.
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Village in the Dark: a Novel
by Iris Yamashita
On a frigid February day, Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy stands by the graves of her husband and son, watching as their caskets are raised from the earth. It feels sacrilegious, but she has no choice. Aaron and Dylan disappeared on a hike a year ago, their bones eventually found and buried. But shocking clues have emerged that foul play was involved, potentially connecting them to a string of other deaths and disappearances. Somehow tied to the mystery is Mia Upash, who grew up in an isolated village called Unity, a community of women and children in hiding from abusive men. Mia never imagined the trouble she would find herself in when she left home to live in Man's World.
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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
by Meg Kissinger
Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives.
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Wildfire: a Novel
by Hannah Grace
Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the end of the academic year, where a drinking game results in them having a passionate one night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome or expect much from a man, Aurora slips away before Russ even has the chance to ask for her full name. Imagine their surprise when they bump into each other on the first day of the summer camp where they are both counselors, hoping to escape their complicated home lives by spending the summer working.
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You Never Know: a Memoir
by Tom Selleck
There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way, frank, funny and open hearted. You Never Know is an intimate memoir from one of the most beloved actors of our time, the highly personal story of a remarkable life and thoroughly accidental career.
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