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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...
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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 Henríquez, acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown AmericansIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first,...
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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...
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All Our Yesterdays

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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Flight of the Wild Swan

Melissa Pritchard - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback

A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been...
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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...
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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...
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Sisters of Belfast: A Novel

Melanie Maure - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Heather Morris, Kate Quinn, and Pam Jenoff, an enthralling and deeply moving story that begins during World War II, about orphaned twin sisters in Ireland whose lives diverge for decades, until fate - and faith - reunite them in the twilight of their lives.Orphaned during...
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Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill

Stephen Greco - A John Scognamiglio Book
Format: Paperback

Reveling in the star-studded parties, fashionable restaurants and gilt-edged inner circles of its most exclusive events, Truman Capote and his flock of glamorous socialite "swans" rule the highest echelons of 1960s and 70s high society New York. Stephen Greco brings this scandalous...
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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...
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