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The Jewel of the Blues

By Monica Chenault-Kilgore - Published 2024

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In the early 20th century, Lucille Love, the “Little Girl with the Big Voice,” comes of age in the face of racial prejudices ...Read Review

Beyond Summerland

By Jenny Lecoat - Published 2024

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The liberation of the Channel Islands in 1945 ought to bring joy and relief to the inhabitants of Jersey. But to Jean Parris, awaiting ...Read Review

The Book of Thorns

By Hester Fox - Published 2024

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Thorns and roses, anger and love. Flowers have long been associated with human emotions, and this novel very adroitly takes these connections and ...Read Review

The Paris Agent

By Kelly Rimmer - Published 2023

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Thriller

In May to July 1970, Charlotte Ainsworth helps her father Noah overcome gaps in memory and answer a question that has haunted him since ...Read Review

Long Gone, Come Home

By Monica Chenault-Kilgore - Published 2023

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Mt. Sterling, Kentucky in the 1930s is a quiet place, one that teenaged Birdie Jennings longs to escape. She dreams of big cities, ...Read Review

The Housekeepers

By Alex Hay - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

Only a few weeks after the death of her father, Miss de Vries nonetheless decides to hold an elaborate costume ball in her ...Read Review

The Housekeepers

By Alex Hay - Published 2023

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This book might have been more appropriately titled “The Housekeepers’ Revenge.”  It is an historical fantasy, in the sense that the servant classes ...Read Review

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

By Hester Fox - Published 2023

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Jane Austen’s title Northanger Abbey is dropped early in The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, but Hester Fox’s latest novel is ...Read Review

The Sunshine Girls

By Molly Fader - Published 2022

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Saga

When legendary movie star Kitty Devereaux appears in Greensboro, Iowa, at the funeral of small-town nurse BettyKay Beecher, she shocks not only the ...Read Review

Miss del Río

By Barbara Mujica - Published 2022

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Biographical Fiction

Stories of two different but equally engaging women intertwine in Mujica’s superb historical novel portraying the life of film star Dolores del ...Read Review