April 2024 list by Holly Whistler
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
by Xochitl Gonzalez
A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
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The American Queen
by Vanessa Miller
In the 1969 South, enslaved woman Louella marries a reverend and leads her people off the plantation, starting her own self-proclaimed kingdom.
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The Atlas Maneuver
by Steve Berry
When he unwittingly becomes caught in a war between the world's oldest bank and the CIA, one that directly involves the Black Eagle Trust and a legendary treasure worth billions, retired Justice Department operative Cotton Malone, must stop cryptocurrency from being weaponized to attack the world's financial systems. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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Beautyland
by Marie-Helene Bertino
A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet.
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The Black Crescent
by Jane Johnson
Driven by the desire to do good in the world, Hamou Badi, marked by djinns, becomes an officer of the law in Casablanca under the French Protectorate and is caught in the crossfire as the fight for Moroccan independence erupts, forcing him to choose between all he knows and all he loves.
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The Boy With the Star Tattoo
by Talia Carner
1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the chateau where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice and escapes to Spain, leaving her baby in the care of his nursemaid.
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The Fortune Seller
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Starting a job at a Manhattan hedge fund after graduation, Rosie uncovers the true identity the mysterious Annelise, a girl who infiltrated her elite Yale set with devastating consequences, and wonders if it's too late for her to put right what went wrong.
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The Forty-Niners: A Novel of the Gold Rush
by William W Johnstone
In 1848, Cord Bennett, leaving his family behind to stake his claim in California, arrives in the gold-rich canyon of Rio Oro, controlled by deadly and ruthless criminals, where he discovers in a land of opportunity, not all that glitters is gold.
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Projections
by S. E. Porter
After murdering the young woman he couldn't have, a sorcerer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied—or suffer a fate worse than death.
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The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
The first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, Hattie McDaniel, when the Oscar curse sets in, is thrust in the middle of two worlds—black and white—and is not welcomed in either but, through it all, continued her fight to pave a path for other Negro actors.
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Queens of London
by Heather Webb
In 1925 London, brilliant criminal mastermind Alice Diamond, the queen of an all-girl gang with plans on building a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen, must outwit and outsmart Britain's first female policewoman who is determined to prove herself by putting Alice out of business—permanently.
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The Road from Belhaven
by Margot Livesey
In late-nineteenth-century Scotland, Lizzie Craig, gifted with the ability to see into the future, is courted by Louis, but when she follows him from Belhaven Farm to Glasgow, she learns the limits of his devotion, forcing her to make a terrible mistake until her second sight allows her a second chance.
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Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
This sequel to the Pulitzer finalist, There There, traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting.
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You Dreamed of Empires
by Alvaro Enrigue
Bringing to life Tenochtitlan at its height and reimaging its destiny, Enrigue takes us back to 1519 where conquistador Hernan Cortes meets emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages and two possible futures.
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