January 2022 list by E. Weaver |
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Beautiful Little Fools
by Jillian Cantor
After the events of The Great Gatsby, West Egg police officers discover a diamond hair pin near the millionaire’s pool putting three women under suspicion for the murder of Jay Gatsby and mechanic George Wilson.
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Bullets and Silver
by Nik James
In the fledgling town of Elkhorn, Caleb Marlowe is commissioned to bring a railroad robber baron to justice who happens to be his father—a ruthless and abusive man he will bring to justice—or he’ll die trying.
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Ever Constant
by Tracie Peterson
After numerous villages in outlying areas begin coming down with a horrible sickness, Dr. Peter Cameron turns to Whitney Powell and her snow dogs to get to his patients. Endless Mercy series.
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From This Day Forward
by Beryl Matthews
As if everyday life in London’s slums wasn’t hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children, the day that ne’er-do-well husband Bert walks out on his family as rent day draws near is a particularly dark time. In the wake of his desertion, the family pull together to find their way forward, and Jane takes the steps she needs to get a divorce and free them all from Bert in the future.
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A Haunting at Holkam
by Anne Glenconner
Returning to Holkham Hall during Christmas 1943, 11-year-old Lady Anne Cokein thinks her new governess is hiding something and investigates when strange events lead to a murder.
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Her Hidden Genius
by Marie Benedict
Tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, who, despite an environment of harassment and bullying in the late 1940s and 1950s, worked in a stringent, scientific manner and became one of the first scientists to map the structure of DNA.
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I Will Die in a Foreign Land
by Kalani Pickhart
Follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter, as their lives become intertwined and are forever changed by the Euromaidan protests triggered by President Yanukovych’s choosing to align with Russia instead of the European Union in 2013.
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The Last Dance of the Debutante
by Julia Kelly
In 1958, the last year debutantes are to presented in court, Lily Nichols, while attending a glittering and grueling string of countless parties and balls, discovers a devastating secret about her entire family, forcing her to choose between her legacy or her own happiness.
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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
by Nathaniel Ian Miller
In 1916, disfigured after a polar bear attack, Sven Ormson leads a solitary life, testing himself against the elements in Svalbard, until an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, drawing him into a family of fellow castoffs that determines the rest of his life.
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The Mitford Vanishing
by Jessica Fellowes
In 1937, with the six Mitford sisters split across political lines, their former maid-turned-PI Louisa Cannon and her policeman husband, at the behest of Nancy Mitford, look into the disappearance of Nancy’s Communist sister Jessica in Spain.
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Of Daggers and Deception
by A. L. Sowards
After years as a soldier and mercenary, Rasheed has retired from battle to run the bathhouse in Thebes with his friends Gillen and Eudocia. The simple life suits them, so when Venetian strangers come to town looking to hire the renowned crew, their answer is no. But when one of his friends is abducted, Rasheed is left with no choice but to take up his weapon and join forces with the Venetians, including the beautiful and clever Cecilia, whose betrothed has also been seized by the unknown foe.
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Our Kind of People
by Carol Wallace
When their father gambles away the family fortune on an elevated railroad, his daughters Jemima and Alice must navigate polite society during the rise and fall of their family, each forced to reexamine who she is, and even who she is meant to love.
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The Paris Bookseller
by Kerri Maher
Opening her Shakespeare and Company bookstore on a quiet street in 1919 Paris, American Sylvia Beach finds her business becoming a second home for some of the most important writers of the Lost Generation until the Depression causes her to question her promise to honor the life-changing impact of books.
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Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant and family man, Bill Furlong, while delivering an order to the local convent, makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
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Stampede
by Tim Washburn
During the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, the Ridgeway family must hold their ground as they battle to keep their dream alive when they stake a claim after the U.S. government offers up two million acres of free land to anyone brave enough to take it.
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Violeta
by Isabel Allende
Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
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