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The Paris Agent

Kelly Rimmer - Graydon House
Format: Hardcover

For fans of fast-paced historical thrillers like Our Woman in Moscow and The Rose Code, Kelly Rimmer's dramatic new novel follows two female SOE operatives whose lives will be determined by a double agent in their midst. . Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still...
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Crook Manifesto: A Novel

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.. It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy,...
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Banyan Moon: A Novel

Thao Thai - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother,...
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The Beekeeper's War: The most compelling and emotional historical fiction novel spanning both WW1 and WW2

Deborah Carr - One More Chapter
Format: Paperback

Two womenTwo warsA secret that threatens to tear them apart 1916At the onset of war, Nurse Pru le Cuirot left her home in Jersey to care for injured soldiers at Ashbury Manor, Dorset. She wanted to do her bit but she never expected to meet American pilot, Jack Garland, so unlike any man she has ever...
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Loot: A novel

Tania James - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding historical novel set in eighteenth-century India, England, and France, about a young man's dream of leaving a mark on the world. Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace...
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The Wind Knows My Name: A Novel

Isabel Allende - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.. Vienna, 1938. Samuel...
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The Last Lifeboat

Hazel Gaynor - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring - she's happiest finding adventure through...
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The First Ladies

Marie Benedict - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune - a forbidden friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents,...
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