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Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage

By Jeffrey Ford - Published 2018

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This story meshes various characters from Herman Melville’s collected works into an adventurous, fast-paced Moby Dick continuation. Stunningly, Ahab has survived the ...Read Review

My Real Name Is Hanna

By Tara Lynn Masih - Published 2018

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Children/Young Adult

Teenaged Hanna Slivka narrates an unforgettable tale of loss and survival in this young adult story of the Holocaust set in Ukraine. Hanna’...Read Review

Mary B

By Katherine J. Chen - Published 2018

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The Austen continuation genre has gained another literary take with this debut novel focused on the character of Mary Bennet. The story begins ...Read Review

April in Paris, 1921

By Tessa Lunney - Published 2018

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Mystery/Crime

Katherine King Button, an Australian debutante escaping the marriage market, has reinvented herself in Paris as Kiki Button, socialite and gossip columnist for ...Read Review

All the Ever Afters

By Danielle Teller - Published 2018

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“The stories we tell ourselves have great power.” This sentence from Teller’s Cinderella reimagining succinctly sums up the theme of this book. ...Read Review

The Game of Hope

By Sandra Gulland - Published 2018

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Children/Young Adult

At the close of the French Revolution, fifteen-year-old Hortense de Beauharnais—step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte—is attending Madame Campan’s Institute for Girls, ...Read Review

The Broken Girls

By Simone St. James - Published 2018

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Mystery/Crime

In 1950, four roommates from Idlewild Hall, a New England boarding school for wayward girls, bond over the one thing they have in common—...Read Review

The Home for Unwanted Girls

By Joanna Goodman - Published 2018

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It’s post-WWII, and in Québec there are two opposing factions: French Canadians and British Canadians. Rarely do the communities mix; however, ...Read Review

The Andersens of Eden

By Ethel Barker - Published 2017

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Children/Young Adult

Ben Andersen of Eden, Iowa is a young teenager when Pearl Harbor is bombed in 1941. He watches in dismay as his three older ...Read Review

The Revolution of Marina M.

By Janet Fitch - Published 2017

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Literary

The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath are explored in this lengthy, poetic novel by the author of White Oleander and Paint It ...Read Review