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• Harlem Sunset

  Afia, Nekesa,

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  A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home.

• California Golden

  a Novel

  Benjamin, Melanie, 1962-

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  Two sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters.

• The First Ladies

  Benedict, Marie,

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  A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune- an unlikely friendship that changed the world.

• The 9th Man

  Berry, Steve, 1955-

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  A thrilling, action-packed historical adventure that sends Luke Daniels on an international manhunt for the truth about the assassination of President Kennedy.

• The Lioness

  Bohjalian, Chris, 1962-

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  A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller.

• Beautiful Little Fools

  a Novel

  Cantor, Jillian,

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  A reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".

• The Glassmaker

  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.

• The Postmistress of Paris

  a Novel

  Clayton, Meg Waite,

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  Inspired by the real-life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold, this is the haunting story of an indomitable woman whose strength, bravery, and love is a beacon of hope in a time of terror.

• The Cuban Heiress

  Cleeton, Chanel,

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  In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women's pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana. Inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.

• The Woman With the Cure

  Cullen, Lynn,

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  A riveting novel based on the true story of Dorothy Horstmann, the woman who stopped a pandemic by developing the polio vaccine.

• The Bohemians

  a Novel

  Darznik, Jasmin, 1973-

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  An intriguing glimpse into celebrated photographer, Dorothea Lange, the woman behind those unforgettable photographs of the Great Depression, and their impact on humanity.

• The Spectacular

  a Novel

  Davis, Fiona, 1966-

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  A thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday.

• The Sweet Blue Distance

  Donati, Sara, 1956-

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  To outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing position in the New Mexico territory.

• Becoming Madam Secretary

  Dray, Stephanie,

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  Frances Perkins is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR's most trusted lieutenant- even as she struggles to balance the demands of a public career with marriage and motherhood.

• The Trackers

  a Novel

  Frazier, Charles, 1950-

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  Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Outlander

  Gabaldon, Diana,

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  A combat nurse from 1945 is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743.

• Of Women and Salt

  Garcia, Gabriela, 1984-

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  A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born.

• The Last Lifeboat

  Gaynor, Hazel,

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  When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S.S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic.

• City of Girls

  Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-

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  This is a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s.

• The Housekeeper's Secret

  Grey, Iona,

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  Told in alternating timelines from the last sun-drenched summer of the Edwardian Age to the mud-fille trenches of WWI.