November 2025 list by Holly Whistler |
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The Sisterhood
by Tasha Alexander
In 1907 London, Lady Emily and her husband Colin investigate the poisoning of debutante Victoria Goldsborough, uncovering tangled motives among high society and a deadly connection to an ancient Roman-era tomb linked to Queen Boudica.
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End Game
by Jeffrey Archer
As London prepares for the 2012 Olympics, Commander William Warwick races against time to dismantle a shadowy international conspiracy planning a devastating attack, in the eighth novel of the series following An Eye for an Eye.
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The Righteous
by Ronald H. Balson
During the throes of World War II and the Holocaust, Theresa Weissbach, a professor at the University of Michigan, hasn't heard from her parents in Budapest for over a year; and her best friend, Julia Powers, recently awarded a Distinguished Service Medal for her OSS service in occupied Holland, joins with her to locate and rescue Theresa's family.
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The Austen Affair
by Madeline Bell
When an electrical accident sends two feuding co-stars in a Jane Austen film adaptation back in time to Jane Austen's era, Tess and Hugh need to ad-lib their way through the Regency period in order to make it back home, and hopefully not screw up history along the way.
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The Possession of Alba Dâiaz
by Isabel Caänas
In 1765, as plague ravages Zacatecas, Alba seeks refuge in her fiancé's remote mining estate but soon spirals into convulsions and darkness, forcing her into a dangerous alliance with his cousin ElÃas as demonic forces, buried secrets, and forbidden desire close in.
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The Belles
by Lacey N. Dunham
In 1951, outsider Deena Williams navigates the rigid world of Bellerton College and the seductive, secretive sisterhood of the Belles, where loyalty, privilege, and rebellion collide, and where uncovering the buried past may expose her own dangerous truths.
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Cry Havoc
by Jack Carr
Amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1968, Navy SEAL Tom Reece navigates a clandestine mission across Vietnam and beyond, uncovering a Soviet plot that threatens to reshape global power in a high-stakes tale of espionage, betrayal and brutal realism.
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The Book of Lost Hours
by Hayley Gelfuso
In 1938, 11-year-old Lisavet Levy becomes trapped in a mysterious library of memory called the time space, where her path intertwines with American timekeeper Ernest Duquesne, whose 1965 death compels his niece Amelia to uncover buried truths amid shifting histories and shadowy CIA intrigue.
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Boleyn Traitor
by Philippa Gregory
The author of The Other Boleyn Girl returns to the court of Henry VIII with a novel about the high cost of loyalty, love and betrayal.
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Amity
by Nathan Harris
In 1866 New Orleans, formerly enslaved siblings Coleman and June are separated, only to embark on perilous, individual journeys through the Mexican desert to reunite and seize the freedom they were promised.
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A Moment's Shadow
by Anna Lee Huber
In 1920s Dublin, Verity and Sidney Kent race to stop a traitor's deadly gas plot while investigating a string of jewel thefts.
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The Best of Enemies
by William W. Johnstone
Civil War foes turned hard-fighting friends, Trace and Chaw roam the West as hired guns, but when a freighting job lands them between ruthless mine owners, they're drawn into a brutal conflict that could rival the war that first brought them together.
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A Dark and Deadly Journey / : An Evelyne Redfern Mystery
by Julia Kelly
In war-torn Lisbon, typist-turned-spy Evelyne Redfern and her infuriating partner David Poole race to find a missing informant after a murder mid-mission reveals espionage and tension between allies, in the third book of the series following Betrayal at Blackthorn Park.
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Let Us March On
by Shara Moon
Devoted wife, White House maid, reluctant activist... A stirring novel inspired by the life of an unsung heroine, and real-life crusader, Lizzie McDuffie, who, as a maid in FDR's White House, spearheaded the Civil Rights movement of her time.
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The Once and Future Me
by Melissa Duggan Pace
A woman teetering between identities embarks on a journey to uncover her true self, challenging the notions of sanity and time as she fights to correct the course of the world and navigate the mystery of her very existence.
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Dear Miss Lake
by A. J. Pearce
During wartime, advice columnist Emmy Lake and the Woman's Friend staff relocate to the countryside, where Emmy balances rural life, a looming wedding and the possibility of war correspondence, in the fourth novel of the series following Mrs. Porter Calling.
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Buckeye
by Patrick Ryan
In postwar Ohio, a stolen moment between Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt reverberates through generations, as a small town's buried secrets and a wife's spiritual gift expose the longing for love and goodness.
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The Art of a Lie
by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
After her husband is murdered, Hannah Cole fights to save her struggling confectionary shop on Piccadilly, contends with suspicion from magistrate Henry Fielding, and finds an unlikely ally in William Devereux, whose introduction of iced cream sparks both opportunity and peril in eighteenth-century London.
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