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Brisa Carleton

**Set amongst the glittering backdrop of London's iconic Savoy hotel, a young woman is forced to confront her troubled past as she uncovers the story of the hotel’s first female bartender who has been erased from the history books."An exhilarating, tender read that will leave you smiling." —Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace**Six years ago, Cinnamon Scott was a young writer on the rise in New York City. But since the sudden loss of her parents, ...

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Brisa Carleton

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Julia Whelan, Daniel di Tomasso, Jonathan Bennett

Every December Plum Hayes writes the kind of Christmas rom-com movies her readers watch and love. Too bad she stopped believing in holiday magic the night her own happily-ever-after fell apart.Two weeks from deadline and out of holiday spirit, she's been packed off to Pine Tree, a snow-globe town with all the charm and few of the Christmas traditions it used to be known for. There she finds the typewriter. And the typewriter magically manifests her a leading man — named, dressed, a...

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Brisa Carleton

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Christine Lakin

**Set amongst the glittering backdrop of London's iconic Savoy hotel, a young woman is forced to confront her troubled past as she uncovers the story of the hotel’s first female bartender who has been erased from the history books."An exhilarating, tender read that will leave you smiling." —Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace**Six years ago, Cinnamon Scott was a young writer on the rise in New York City. But since the sudden loss of her parents, ...

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Emily Hourican

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Rebecca Lee

Two powerful families. A changing world.'Hourican expertly weaves her elegant fictional magic' THE GLOSSLondon, 1943: Boston-native Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy has returned to the city she loves, hoping to reunite with BillyCavendish, the man she wishes to marry. But with their parents forbidding the match, London a shell of its formerself following the B...

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Angela Shupe

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Abigail Reno, Sarah Sampino

CHRISTY AWARD FINALIST • Two sisters, separated by oceans and global conflict, are bonded through music and love in this gripping novel based on true events from World War II.“Hauntingly beautiful . . . shines a light on wartime in the Philippines and Italy, places rarely depicted in historical fiction . . . a riveting, unforgettable must-read novel that will live in my heart and mind for years to come.”—Sharon Kurtzman, author of The Lost Baker of Vien...

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Sarah McCoy

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Cassandra Campbell, Helen Laser, Stephanie Németh-Parker

From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun.In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film career to take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Benedictine nun. Gossip columnists and scandal sheets can’t get enough of the ...

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Emily Hourican

Two powerful families. A changing world.When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left England to return to America, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, future Duke of Devonshire and the man she loves, had told her he could never marry her. Now, in 1943, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns hoping to reunite with Billy - but there are many obstacles ahead.Lady Brigid Guinness has swapped high fashion and exclusive dinner parties for long shif...

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Jennifer L. Wright

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Sarah Zimmerman

Galveston, Texas. September 1900. Only months ago, Kathleen McDaniel returned from finishing school in Switzerland to her family home in New York’s Hudson Valley with a future of promise and privilege set before her. But one horrific event shattered her picturesque life. Now she has fled as far as the train line and a pocketful of money would take her, finding refuge at the St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum on Galveston Island, where she helps the nuns care for their young charges ...

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Tiffany L. Warren

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Robin Miles

""Beautifully crafted and captivating.This triumphant tale is sure to be an instant classic.""--Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Personal Librarian""How do we not all know the name of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield? The story of this brilliant singer -- a Black woman born enslaved who performed both sides of the Atlantic in the years before and during the Civil War -- is finally given its just ...

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Rachel Robbins

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Sarah Skaer

**Oppenheimer meets Hidden Figures in this sweeping historical debut where two Jewish physicists form an inseverable bond amidst fear and uncertainty.Sure to captivate readers of Kate Quinn and Bonnie Garmus, The Sound of a Thousand Stars eerily mirrors modern-day questions of wartime ethics and explores what it means to survive—at any cost.**Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studyi...

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Sarah McCoy

From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun.In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film career to take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Benedictine nun. Gossip columnists and scandal sheets can’t get enough of the ...

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Matt Goldman

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Dan Bittner

The Murder Show is a pulse-racing novel about secrets, old friends, and how the past never leaves us by New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award winning author Matt Goldman!Showrunner Ethan Harris had a hit with The Murder Show, a television crime drama that features a private detective who solves cases the police can’t. But after his pitch for the fourth season is rejected by the network, he returns home to Minnesota looking for inspira...