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by Julia Quinn
Georgiana Bridgerton has been "ruined" by a cad intent on winning her dowry. She has no intention of marrying him, but her only other choice is banishment and life as a forgotten spinster.
This is a prequel to the Bridgerton saga.
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by Louisa Leaman
The owner of a wedding dress shop finds a gorgeous 1950s couture gown and becomes entangled with the original owner’s son who is working hard to keep hidden the dark history of the garment.
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by Laura Van den Berg
Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He's wearing a white linen suit she's never seen before, and he's supposed to be dead.
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by Timothy Jay Smith
It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct Soviet Union
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by Fiona Davis
A New York Public Library superintendent’s wife reevaluates her priorities upon joining a woman’s suffrage group in 1913, decades before her granddaughter’s efforts to save an exhibit expose tragic family secrets.
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by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.
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by Hua Yu
In this melancholy view of the afterlife, dying without a burial place leaves a man in limbo, where he revisits his life through memories and the spirits he encounters.
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by Leslie Epstein
An American architect wins a competition to build a monument for Mussolini and, in the course of attempting to complete it against myriad obstacles, loses his family, his country, and perhaps even his mind.
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by Leigh Bardugo
Most Yale students get admitted through some combination of impressive academics, athletics, extracurriculars, family connections, and donations, or perhaps bribing the right coach. Not Galaxy "Alex" Stern. Alex got in because she can see dead people.
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by Sara Faring
At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi, it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina's elite girls.
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by Ivan Doig
Two years after their university football team enjoyed a record-breaking, undefeated season, the teammates become caught up in the drama and peril of World War II, including Ben Reinking, plucked from pilot training to become part of the military propaganda machine..
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by David Liss
Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. Just as she is on the cusp of accepting a life of misery, events take a stunning turn when a handsome stranger -- the poet and notorious rake Lord Byron -- arrives at her house, stricken by what seems to be a curse, and with a cryptic message for Lucy.
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by Diane Setterfield
The enigmatic Vida Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life.
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by Steve Berry
Shot down over Siberia during what was supposed to be a straightforward mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone barely escapes the clutches of a zealous anti-U.S. former KGB officer and learns that a sleeper is plotting a deadly attack during the American presidential inauguration.
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by Erica Boyce
A dying Vermont corn farmer hires Daniel in an effort to breathe new life into the town he loves, Daniel is drawn into a community struggling to stitch itself back together. For once he is forced to stand still, and face the past he's been running from all this years.
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by Robert Hellenga
It is the fall of 1966. Florence has been devastated by floods. Margot Harrington, a book conservator from Illinois, joins the crowd of volunteers who descend upon the city to help rescue its art treasures.
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by Yara Zgheib
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list.
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by Nicolle Wallace
Charlotte Kramer, the first female president of the United States, finds her marriage, the presidency, and the safety of the American people in peril after rumors of her husband's infidelity circulate and her national security advisor makes grave errors of judgment..
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by David Ebershoff
Intertwines the story of Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth and final wife of Brigham Young, who in 1875 leaves her husband and embarks on crusade to end polygamy, and a modern-day murder mystery in which a polygamous man has been found dead and one of his wives is accused of the crime.
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by Debra Landwehr Engle
At age fifty-five, Meg's life is too filled with loss for her to remember what magic feels like. All she has left is a yard brimming with plants that are wilting in the scorching Iowa summer -- and a bone-deep feeling that she's through with living.
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