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The last assignment : a novel
by Erika Robuck
In 1956, grief-stricken and estranged from her husband, war photojournalist Dickey Chapelle takes on a dangerous mission with a refugee aid group, and after a harrowing Soviet imprisonment, resolves to expose the human cost of war from the front lines.
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| Fonseca by Jessica Francis KaneMining a real 1952 trip to Mexico by Penelope Fitzgerald, this “masterful” (Publishers Weekly) novel follows the acclaimed English writer who's traveling with her six-year-old son while broke and pregnant. She’s come at the behest of the eccentric Delaney sisters, who’ve dangled an inheritance before her, but it turns out, she's not the only one. For fans of: Penelope Fitzgerald; witty stories starring real people. |
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| The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-RobinsonAfter her husband's violent murder, Hannah Cole still runs her confectionary shop in 1749 London, but money is tighter than ever. She gets a bit of help from a stranger who knew her husband, but Chief Magistrate Henry Fielding thinks she may have been involved in her husband's death, leading her to look for the killer. Read-alikes: Katharine Schellman's The Body in the Garden; Kate Saunders' The Secrets of Wishtide. |
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World pacific : a novel
by Peter Mann
As the second world war looms, vanished writer Richard Halifax's secrets ripple through the lives of émigré painter Hildegard Rauch and intelligence officer Simon Faulk, whose intertwined quests reveal betrayal, espionage and the fragile narratives that keep them afloat amid global upheaval.
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Whatever happened to Lori Lovely? : a novel
by Sarah McCoy
In 1991, college student Lu Tibbott investigates her aunt Lori Lovely's sudden transition from Hollywood starlet to cloistered nun, uncovering hidden ambitions, forbidden love, and dark secrets behind Lori's dramatic life change amid scandal and mystery.
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The Women of Arlington Hall
by Jane Healey
Ambitious codebreaker Cat Killeen joins a covert spy-hunting project at Arlington Hall in 1947, where her budding romance with FBI agent and former rival Jonathan Dardis unfolds amid Cold War tensions, high-stakes espionage, and a battle for national security.
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The gossip columnist's daughter
by Peter Orner
Struggling with writer's block and a fractured family, Jed Rosenthal becomes obsessed with the decades-old, unresolved death of Cookie Kupcinet, hoping that uncovering the truth behind her mysterious end will help him understand his own family's unraveling.
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