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The Winthrop Agreement

By Alice Simpson - Published 2023

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New York, 1893. Lithuanian immigrant Rivkah Milmanovitch debarks on Ellis Island, expecting to join her husband and start a new life, but instead, she ...Read Review

Viper’s Dream

By Jake Lamar - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Thriller

Harlem, 1936. Convinced by his uncle that he possesses unusual musical abilities, Clyde Morton, an impoverished teenage boy, leaves his rural home in Meachum, ...Read Review

The Shanghai Secret: A Gilded Age Mystery (The Tidewater Chronicles)

By Vanessa Lind - Published 2023

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Adventure Mystery/Crime

1888 Astoria, Oregon. The intrigue begins when seventeen-year-old Josephine Felch, the daughter of a salmon cannery magnate, is hired to assist Cecil Wisener, the ...Read Review

Dulcinea

By Ana Veciana-Suarez - Published 2023

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15th-16th century Spain. Dolça Llull Prat, the young, artistic daughter of a Barcelona aristocrat, lives a carefree life of luxury until ...Read Review

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

By Janet Wallach - Published 2023

Genres:

Nonfiction

Janet Wallach’s meticulously researched biography chronicles the awe-inspiring life of Marguerite Elton Baker Harrison (1879-1967). Left penniless at age 37 after marriage, the ...Read Review

The Dark Edge of Night (Henri Lefort Mysteries, 2)

By Mark Pryor - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

This riveting, fast-paced thriller, the second in Mark Pryor’s Henri Lefort series, finds the wily French Parisian police inspector again enmeshed in ...Read Review

The Great Reclamation

By Rachel Heng - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

1941, Singapore: As British imperialism declines and WWII looms, seven-year-old Ah Boon and the Lee family struggle to survive in their southeastern coastal fishing ...Read Review

The Courtesan’s Daughter

By Susanne Dunlap - Published 2023

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1910, New York. After fleeing from a troubled past, Justine, an impoverished French immigrant, struggles to provide a better future for Sylvie, her young ...Read Review

Wild, Beautiful, and Free

By Sophfronia Scott - Published 2023

Genres:

Saga

Set in the mid-1800s, this compelling coming-of-age novel explores the life of mixed-race Jeannette Bébinn, the love child of a Louisiana ...Read Review

Lost Souls of Leningrad

By Suzanne Parry - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

Set in 1941 Leningrad, this tension-filled, well-crafted WWII historical novel tells the harrowing story of Sofya Karavayeva, a widowed violinist, and Yelena, her spirited, ...Read Review

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