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  • The henna artist
    Author:
    Joshi, Alka
    Summary:

    Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist, and confidante, most in demand to the...
  • The golem and the jinni : a novel
    Author:
    Wecker, Helene
    Summary:

    Chava, a golem, and Ahmad, a jinni, become unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures, until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into separate worlds. But a powerful menace will bring them...
  • The golden hour : a novel
    Author:
    Williams, Beatriz
    Summary:

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau-a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.The...
  • The giver of stars
    Author:
    Moyes, Jojo
    Summary:

    Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their unforgettable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium When Alice Wright...
  • The girls with no names
    Author:
    Burdick, Serena
    Summary:

    Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes...
  • The girl from the Channel Islands : a novel
    Author:
    Lecoat, Jenny
    Summary:

    Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu fled Vienna two years ago. Now she watches the skies over Jersey for German planes, convinced that an invasion is imminent. When it finally comes, there is no counterattack from Allied forces, the Channel Islands...
  • The four winds
    Author:
    Hannah, Kristin
    Summary:

    Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman...
  • The forgotten sister : a novel
    Author:
    Cornick, Nicola
    Summary:

    1560: Amy Robsart hatches a desperate scheme to escape a loveless marriage, the consequences of which will echo through the centuries. Present day: Lizzie Kingdom is forced to withdraw from the public eye in a blaze of scandal when she...
  • The forgotten home child
    Author:
    Graham, Genevieve
    Summary:

    The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England's streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home—based on the true...
  • The foreign student : a novel
    Author:
    Choi, Susan
    Summary:

    Tennessee, 1955. New student Chuck will not speak of his earlier life in Korea. Then he meets Katherine, who is also haunted by her past. Each senses in the other the possibility of salvation.
  • The Florios of Sicily : a novel
    Author:
    Auci, Stefania
    Summary:

    Driven by an insatiable desire to rise above his station and fueled by a nobility that scorns him, Vincenzo sacrifices family and love to transform his tiny spice shop into a trading empire. The name Florio soon instills fear and...
  • The first Princess of Wales : a novel
    Author:
    Harper, Karen
    Summary:

    Joan plots to scandalize Edward, Prince of Wales, and the royal family, for she has learned they engineered her father's downfall and death. But what begins as a calculated strategy soon grows into love. When Joan learns that...
  • The exiles : a novel
    Author:
    Kline, Christina Baker
    Summary:

    Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded...
  • The devil may dance : a novel
    Author:
    Tapper, Jake
    Summary:

    Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington, DC, long for a rest, but Attorney General Robert Kennedy asks them to look into a threat to the presidency, and the security of the nation.
  • The clergyman's wife : a pride & prejudice novel
    Author:
    Greeley, Molly
    Summary:

    For everyone who loved Pride and Prejudice-and legions of historical fiction lovers-an inspired debut novel set in Austen's world. In this Pride & Prejudice-inspired novel, not everyone has the luxury of waiting for love....
  • The chaperone : a novel
    Author:
    Moriarty, Laura
    Summary:

    Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and icon, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks heads to New York to make it big, accompanied by a chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. Ultimately, the time they spend together changes...
  • The bronze horseman
    Author:
    Simons, Paullina
    Summary:

    Tatiana Metanova's world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia. Yet there is light in the darkness when she meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. He is drawn to Tatiana, and she to him. But their...
  • The body outside the Kremlin
    Author:
    May, James L.
    Summary:

    A political prisoner incarcerated on the island of Solovetsky, the most notorious Russian prison camp of the 1920s, is mysteriously conscripted to solve the murder of a fellow inmate.
  • The American agent
    Author:
    Winspear, Jacqueline
    Summary:

    Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and...
  • Shell a novel
    Author:
    Olsson, Kristina
    Summary:

    In this spellbinding and poignant historical novel'perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Flamethrowers'a Swedish glassmaker and a fiercely independent Australian journalist are thrown together amidst the...

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