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Harper Perennial

Where They Lie

By Claire Coughlan - Published 2024

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Dublin, 1968: in the news room of a city newspaper on a slow night near Christmas, the conversation amongst reporters turns to a convicted ...Read Review

Queen Hereafter (US) / Lady Macbethad (UK)

By Isabelle Schuler - Published 2023

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This deep dive into the origin story of Lady Macbeth transports the reader to 11th-century Scotland, a time steeped in religion, superstition, factions ...Read Review

Hotel Cuba

By Aaron Hamburger - Published 2023

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Aaron Hamburger’s novel is rich in character, plot, and setting. Its basic ingredient is a detailed exploration of a young woman’s ...Read Review

Prize Women

By Caroline Lea - Published 2023

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Who will be the lucky woman to win a millionaire’s fortune by having the most children in ten years? That was the ...Read Review

Prize Women

By Caroline Lea - Published 2023

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Poverty may strip a woman of basic support, and abuse can take her self-esteem as well as her safety. But if she has ...Read Review

The Seamstress of Sardinia

By Bianca Pitzorno - By Brigid Maher (trans.) - Published 2022

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In early 20th century Sardinia, a quiet seamstress becomes implicated in the dramatic lives of her clients and finds her own life changed. ...Read Review

Beautiful Little Fools

By Jillian Cantor - Published 2022

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Beautiful Little Fools is Jillian Cantor’s spin-off of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s novel focuses ...Read Review

Half Life

By Jillian Cantor - Published 2021

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Alternate History Biographical Fiction

At age 24, Marya Sklodowska leaves Poland to follow her older sister and study at the Sorbonne. She, now Marie, meets and marries fellow ...Read Review

The Paris Model: A Novel

By Alexandra Joel - Published 2020

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Svelte and stunning Grace Woods loves her Australian ranch as a child, but when she marries her childhood sweetheart after his return from ...Read Review