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• The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

  Khan, Shubnum,

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  "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

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  Alvarez, Julia,

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  "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seventh Veil of Salome

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  "1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to be Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film's mercurial director casts an unknown Mexican ingenue in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Yellow Birds

  a Novel

  Powers, Kevin

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  In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.

• The Victory Garden

  Bowen, Rhys,

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  As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Go as a River

  Read, Shelley,

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  "Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swift River

  Chambers, Essie,

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  In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was Anastasia

  a Novel

  Lawhon, Ariel,

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  "Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, has set her sights on one of history's most beguiling mysteries: Did Anastasia Romanov survive the Russian Revolution, or was Anna Anderson, the woman who notoriously claimed her identity, an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mountains Sing

  a Novel

  Nguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai, 1973-

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  "The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trà̂n Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last House on the Street

  Chamberlain, Diane, 1950-

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  "From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. When Kayla Carter's husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Canary Girls

  a Novel

  Chiaverini, Jennifer,

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  Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Glassmaker

  a Novel

  Chevalier, Tracy,

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  "In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass-but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Butter Honey Pig Bread

  a Novel

  Ekwuyasi, Francesca, 1990-

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  "Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Cake

  Wilkerson, Charmaine,

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  "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous…Read moreRead more of this annotation