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Where the Girls Were

By Kate Schatz - Published 2026

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Feminist writer Schatz knocks it out of the park with her debut novel about a young woman in late ´60s California who—like ...Read Review

A Fortune of Sand

By Ruta Sepetys - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

One expects some level of eccentricity from the ultra-wealthy, yet Marjorie Lennox’s family sits in a class by itself. In 1927, at their ...Read Review

Kin

By Tayari Jones - Published 2026

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“The road Vernice is walking is paved different from yours,” Annie’s grandmother tells her towards the beginning of Jones’s remarkable novel. “...Read Review

The Chambermaid’s Key

By Genevieve Graham - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

Graham continues illuminating fascinating facets of Canadian history, upping the ante plotting-wise with her new dual-timeline novel centering on a storied Toronto landmark. ...Read Review

Vivian’s Decision

By Della Leavitt - Published 2026

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Vivian Jacobson is beyond overwhelmed. The children of Russian Jewish immigrants, she and her loving husband, Mel, moved from Chicago with their family ...Read Review

The Widow Hamilton: An Eliza Hamilton Mystery

By Mollie Ann Cox - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

As fans of the Broadway musical know, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton lived fifty years after her husband’s tragically early death. Over those decades, ...Read Review

Death at Bitterwood Clearing (A Civil War Mystery)

By Anne Mackay-Smith - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

The US Civil War acquits itself well as a historical mystery venue. Stress and danger are everywhere, and murder notches up the tension. ...Read Review

Unfamiliar Territory

By Mary Smathers - Published 2025

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Reinvention is the name of the game in Smathers’ fabulous epic of Gold Rush California, which sees her heroine, Juanita Castro de la ...Read Review

Salt People of the Cloud Houses: The Story of Sarah Rapalje and Dutch Manhattan

By Fawn Brokaw Doyle - Published 2025

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Biographical Fiction

Doyle’s debut is a fine introduction to the life and times of a lesser-known American foremother: Sarah Rapalje (1625-85), considered the first ...Read Review

Daughter of the Stones

By Alexandra Walsh - Published 2025

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Time-slip

A dominant patriarch. His tragic mental decline. His youngest daughter, distraught over his incomprehensible repudiation of her. Walsh looks back to the Iron ...Read Review

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