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The Queens of Crime by Marie BenedictA thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder. London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club.
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The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes by Chanel CleetonA mysterious book with a legacy spanning from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day unites three women--and their secrets--in this unforgettable novel.
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The Stolen Queen by Fiona DavisCharlotte, an Egyptian art curator at the Met, and Annie, an aspiring fashion assistant, team up to solve the theft of an ancient artifact and uncover long-buried personal secrets.
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Broken Country by Clare Leslie HallBeth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager--the man who broke her heart years ago - has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel's life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences.
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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin HarmelColette Marceau and her mother Annabel are a Robin Hood-style team of jewelry thieves, stealing from the cruel to help fund the French Resistance. One night, her mother is captured and her four year old sister goes missing and is later found dead. Decades later, Colette continues to steal to help fund worthy causes and comes across a bracelet that may hold a clue to her sister's murder.
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Amity by Nathan HarrisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water comes a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to escape a former master still intent on their bondage.
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by Georgia Hunter
Lili and Esti have been best friends since they first met at university. When Esti's son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. While a war seethes across borders, life somehow goes on--until Germany invades Italy, and the friends suddenly find themselves in occupied territory. A remarkable tale of friendship, romance, motherhood, and survival, One Good Thing reminds us what is worth fighting for--and that love, even amidst a world in ruins, can triumph. |
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Last Twilight in Paris by Pam JenoffLouise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before, when she worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe--and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny during the war.
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Six Days in Bombay by Alka JoshiYoung nurse Sona is drawn to the renowned, feisty, scandalous painter Mira Novak when they meet while the latter is recovering at a Bombay hospital, and the two women bond over their half-Indian identities. But when Mira dies suddenly and mysteriously, Sona falls under suspicion. The key to proving Sona's innocence may lie in a cryptic note and four paintings Mira left in her care, sending the young woman across a tumultuous Europe to meet Mira's former lovers and friends.
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We Do Not Partby Kang HanAs Kyungha braves a treacherous snowstorm on Jeju Island to save her injured friend's pet, she unwittingly embarks on a journey that blurs reality and memory, uncovering a hidden chapter of Korean history and the enduring power of friendship amidst forgotten violence.
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The King's Messengerby Susanna KearsleyIt is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and advisor of the late Prince Henry. Joined by a court scrivener and the scrivener's spirited daughter Phoebe, Andrew slowly untangles the true purpose of his mission--to frame Sir David for Prince Henry's murder.
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The Hounding by Xenobe PurvisEven before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbank to portentous ravens gathering on the roofs of people about to die. But when the villagers start to hear barking, and one claims to see the Mansfield sisters transform before his very eyes into dogs, the allegations spark fascination and fear like nothing has before.
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Let's Call Her Barbie by Renée RosenWhen Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she's setting in motion. In the decades to come--through soaring heights and devastating personal lows, public scandals and private tensions-- each of them will have to decide how tightly to hold on to their creation. Because Barbie has never been just a doll--she's a legacy.
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Buckeye by Patrick RyanIn the jubilant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, Cal Jenkins shares a single, life-altering moment with Margaret Salt. What begins as a fleeting transgression becomes a complex secret that irrevocably binds them in unexpected ways. As their small Ohio town remakes itself in the postwar boom, the Salt and Jenkins families remain in each other's orbit, and the consequences of choices made long ago begin to emerge, reshaping their lives in ways that will forever impact the next generation.
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