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The Things We Didn’t Know

By Elba Iris Pérez - Published 2024

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When in the opening pages of The Things We Didn’t Know, Raquel—the mother of the heroine Andrea—nearly drives her husband’...Read Review

The Jazz Club Spy

By Roberta Rich - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

In January 1920, Giddy Brodsky, age five, shelters in a frozen cow carcass as Cossacks raid the village of Stulchyn, Ukraine, raping her mother ...Read Review

The Paris Daughter

By Kristin Harmel - Published 2023

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In 1939, days before Hitler invades Poland, two Americans cross paths in a Paris suburban park. Elise LeClair, on a walk to escape her ...Read Review

The Lost English Girl

By Julia Kelly - Published 2023

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This story is set against the backdrop of World War II and the eventual evacuation of thousands of British children from the cities ...Read Review

On Gin Lane

By Brooke Lea Foster - Published 2022

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Everleigh (Lee) Farrows, daughter of a wealthy New York family, is bored by her socially busy and correct life in 1956 until she meets ...Read Review

The Wedding Veil

By Kristy Woodson Harvey - Published 2022

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Saga

This sweet multiperiod saga imagines the lives of four women linked by a wedding veil said to guarantee a happy marriage. For modern-day ...Read Review

Carolina Built

By Kianna Alexander - Published 2022

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Biographical Fiction

Carolina Built is the nearly forgotten story of entrepreneur Josephine Leary and her desire and perseverance to create a life of her own. ...Read Review

Anticipation

By Melodie Winawer - Published 2021

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Time-slip

“Anticipation” often implies hopeful expectation but here refers to the Huntington’s disease (HD) gene, discernible in one generation, anticipated in the next. ...Read Review

The Last Dance of the Debutante

By Julia Kelly - Published 2022

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Kelly immerses the reader in the rarefied mid-20th-century world of British debutantes, where we experience the Season along with shy, studious 18-year-old ...Read Review