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Joel H. Morris - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare's historic play, about the ambition, power, and fate that define one of literature's most notorious figures: Lady Macbeth.. Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten...
 
 
All the World Beside: A Novel

Garrard Conley - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.. Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family...
 
 
Becoming Madam Secretary

Stephanie Dray - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and richly dramatic novel about American heroine Frances Perkins, who pulled the nation out of the Great Depression.. Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn...
 
 
The Berlin Letters: A Cold War Novel

Katherine Reay - Harper Muse
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison.From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical,...
 
 
Can't We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

Eliza Knight - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe. One woman was recognized as the premiere...
 
 
Daughters of Warsaw: an emotional and heartbreaking WW2 historical fiction novel inspired by a real life hero for 2024

Maria Frances - Avon
Format: Hardcover

Pre-order now! An emotional World War Two time-slip of one woman's inspiring, dangerous and courageous undertaking in the Warsaw ghetto. In a world torn apart by war, she'll risk her life to save them. 1942, Warsaw Young Zofia finds herself leading a double life when she is enlisted...
 
 
The Divorcees

Rowan Beaird - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry, a novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future . "A delicious literary page-turner from a fierce new voice." - Rebecca Makkai. "The...
 
 
The Duchess: The Scandalous Ladies of London (The Scandalous Ladies of London, 2)

Sophie Jordan - Avon
Format: Paperback

The thrilling second book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy...
 
 
Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel

Allison Pataki - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller - America's forgotten leading lady and the central figure of a movement that defined a nation - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post. Massachusetts, 1836. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically...
 
 
The Girls We Sent Away: A Novel

Meagan Church - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

A searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and The Girls with No Names set in the Baby Scoop Era of 1960s and the women of a certain condition swept up in a dark history.It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white...
 
 
Glorious Exploits: A Novel

Ferdia Lennon - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. . On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they've herded the sorry...
 
 
A Grave Robbery (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery Book 9)

Deanna Raybourn - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.. Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman...
 
 
The Great Divide: A Novel

Cristina Henriquez - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there, by Cristina HenrĂ­quez, acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown AmericansIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first,...
 
 
If the Tide Turns

Rachel Rueckert - Kensington
Format: Paperback

Set during the Golden Age of Pirates and the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, this vivid literary debut is inspired by the captivating true story of real-life pirate Samuel Bellamy, combining high seas adventure, star-crossed longing, surprisingly timely questions about social...
 
 
In the Shadow of the Greenbrier

Emily Matchar - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback

Four generations. One remarkable hotel. Countless secrets.. Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations...
 
 
James: A Novel

Percival Everett - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. * From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) , Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime....
 
 
The Lost Book of Bonn: A Novel

Brianna Labuskes - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books.Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany...
 
 
The Love Remedy (The Damsels of Discovery)

Elizabeth Everett - Berkley
Format: Paperback

"Beautiful and important." - New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn When a Victorian apothecary hires a stoic private investigator to protect her business, they learn there's only one way to treat true love - with a happily ever after. When Lucinda Peterson's...
 
 
Pelican Girls: A Novel

Julia Malye - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer's The Son and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry...
 
 
The Phoenix Bride: A Novel

Natasha Siegel - Dell
Format: Hardcover

A passionate tale of plague, fire, and forbidden love in seventeenth-century London from the acclaimed author of Solomon's Crown. It is 1666, one year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within her older sister's...
 
 
Speculations in Sin (A Below Stairs Mystery)

Jennifer Ashley - Berkley
Format: Paperback

To save an innocent man's life, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must expose a financial scam that could ruin the most powerful aristocrats in Victorian-era London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Bow Lane. Kat Holloway is distressed to learn that Samuel...
 
 
To Slip the Bonds of Earth (A Katharine Wright Mystery)

Amanda Flower - Kensington Books
Format: Hardcover

While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive - especially when it comes to solving crimes - in USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower's radiant new historical mystery series inspired by the real...
 
 
The Tower: A Novel

Flora Carr - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. Scotland, 1567. A pregnant Mary, Queen of Scots...
 
 
Trouble: A Novel

Lex Croucher - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

A Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love.There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble.. Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite,...
 
 
The Underground Library: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this heartwarming novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. When new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown,...
 
 
Wolf at the Table

Adam Rapp - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst, from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award finalist playwright Adam Rapp. As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen,...
 
 
The Woman in the Sable Coat

Elizabeth Brooks - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Orphan of Salt Winds, The Whispering House, and The House in the Orchard comes a passionate and fateful story of love, betrayal, and the rewards - and costs - of following your heart. At the height of the Second World War in England, twenty-two year old Nina...
 
 
The Woman with No Name: A Novel

Audrey Blake - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

She'll light the fire of resistance -- but she may get burned ... 1942. Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat's life is over. She's estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonne -- older, diminutive, overlooked -- has lost...