Kristen McDermott
The Last Debutantes: A Novel
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When we first meet Valerie de Vere Cole, she is living the “poor little rich girl” lifestyle. The real-life daughter of disgraced society ...Read Review
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, 2)
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Joshi enjoyed terrific success with her debut novel, The Henna Artist, when it was chosen for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine book club ...Read Review
Oddity
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Alternate HistoryChildren/Young Adult
Brown’s fans have to wait a long time between novels, but each one is worth it. Readers who adored his award-winning “culinary ...Read Review
Testimony
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Reading this thoughtful novel reminds today’s readers that nostalgia for the mid-20th century often glosses over the racism and sexism that ...Read Review
The Show Girl
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Olive Shine is a Ziegfeld Girl, living the high life in New York City in the final moments of the pleasure-loving Roaring Twenties. ...Read Review
When We Meet Again
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British book publishers during World War II had to contend, not only with the normal uncertainties of the trade, but with paper rationing, ...Read Review
Our Woman in Moscow
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Williams has a gift for taking time-honored romance tropes – doomed love affairs, rebellious ingenues, disillusioned spouses, louche aristocrats, pretend husbands – and giving them ...Read Review
Better Luck Next Time
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This clever evocation of Hollywood screwball comedies has “soon to be a major motion picture” written all over it, and if Tom Hanks ...Read Review
The Last Night in London
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White’s Southern novels are beloved bestsellers, and in this historical outing, she introduces a refugee from the close-knit Walton, Georgia community she ...Read Review
Water Sight (Last of the Gifted)
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Powell’s Last of the Gifted series covers a slice of history already immortalized in Sharon Kay Penman’s Welsh Trilogy and Edith ...Read Review