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List created by Susan K. (susank17) - on Mar 12, 2025
List Votes: 1 Books: 44 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
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The Diamond of London by Andrea Penrose
A novel based on the real life of Lady Hester Stanhope, a British aristocrat born into an illustrious family of swashbuckling war heroes and brilliant political leaders. Lady Hester was a Regency-era adventuress who lived on her own terms and defied all conventional strictures of what a woman...  more

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Fourth Wing (Empyrean, Bk 1) by Rebecca Yarros
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general -- also known as...  more

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Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman
When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, trying to escape an overprotective family and the haunting memories of a terrible accident, she doesn’t expect to be homeless after a week. (She’s pretty sure she didn’t start that fire -- right?) She also doesn't expect to...  more

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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going underâۥbut rather than face the music, he’s spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while...  more

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The Book Share by Phaedra Patrick
Liv Green loves losing herself in a good book. But her everyday reality is less romantic, cleaning houses for people who barely give her the time of day. So when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero and mega-bestselling author Essie Starling, she can't believe her luck. When...  more

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An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (Risen Kingdoms, Bk 1) by Curtis Craddock
In a world of floating continents, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the cloud-strewn heights, and ancient blood-borne sorceries cling to a fading glory, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs is about to be married to a man she has barely heard of, the second son of a dying king in an...  more

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The Beautiful Ones: A Novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"Truly one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. This sweeping tale of love lost and found is told with old-world elegance and grace with just the right touch of magic." ?M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling authorAntonina Beaulieu is in the glittering city of Loisail for her...  more

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Candle & Crow: Book Three of the Ink & Sigil series by Kevin Hearne
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Chaos Terminal (Midsolar Murders, Bk 2) by Mur Lafferty
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of the new human arrivals on a space shuttle is murdered, she’s back in the game. Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you...  more

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City of Tears (Joubert Family, Bk 2) by Kate Mosse
Alliances and Romance August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and the Huguenots.  Loyalty and Deception Also in Paris is their oldest...  more

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The Dead of Winter: Three Giordano Bruno Novellas (Giordano Bruno, Bks 0.5 - 0.7) by ...
Three exhilarating novellas—The Secret Dead, The Academy of Secrets, and The Dead of Winter—following the early adventures of young priest Giordano Bruno in the dramatic days of sixteenth century Italy. Even the dead have a story to tell . . . Naples, 1566. During a sweltering...  more

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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, Bk 1) by Deborah Harkness
Deep in the heart of Oxford's Bodleian Library, Diana Bishop -- a young scholar and the descendant of witches -- unearths an enchanted alchemical manuscript.  Wanting nothing to do with sorcery, she banished the book to the stack.  But her discovery has set a fantastical...  more

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The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder and a minister’s daughter in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in...  more

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From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, Bk 1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
A Maiden… Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be...  more

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Age of Myth: The First Empire Book One by Michael J. Sullivan
Michael J. Sullivan's trailblazing career began with the breakout success of his Riyria series: full-bodied, spellbinding fantasy adventures whose imaginative scope and sympathetic characters won a devoted readership and comparisons to fantasy masters Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch, and Tolkien...  more

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As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. Into this bustling town, came Pauline Bright and her husband, filled with hope that they could now give their...  more

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Betwixt (Betwixt & Between, Bk 1) by Darynda Jones
Divorced, desperate, and destitute, former restaurateur Defiance Dayne finds out she has been bequeathed a house by a complete stranger. She is surprised, to say the least, and her curiosity gets the better of her. She leaves her beloved Phoenix and heads to one of the most infamous towns in...  more

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Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of...  more

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Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, Bk 3) by Elly Griffiths
Is it possible to forget that you’ve committed a murder? When Cassie Fitzgerald was at school in the late 90s, she and her friends killed a fellow student. Almost twenty years later, Cassie is a happily married mother who loves her job—as a police officer. She closely guards the...  more

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Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, Bk 4) by Ann Cleeves
Inspector Jimmy Perez takes his fiancé home to Fair Isle, the tiny island he comes from, to meet his parents. The island is a magnet for bird watchers, who congregate at the local inn and lighthouse. When a local married celebrity, who had an eye for the lads, is murdered, Perez discovers...  more

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The Book Jumper by Mechthild Glaser
Amy Lennox doesn't know quite what to expect when she and her mother pick up and leave Germany for Scotland, heading to her mother's childhood home of Lennox House on the island of Stormsay. Amy's grandmother, Lady Mairead, insists that Amy must read while she resides at Lennox...  more

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The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect -- a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was...  more

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Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria by Julia P. Ge...
Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is the powerful epic story of five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria, who reigned over the end of their empires, the destruction of their families, and the tumult of the twentieth century Here are the stories of Alexandra, whose faith in...  more

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The Cargo From Neira (Gabriel Taverner, Bk 5) by Alys Clare
February, 1605. A series of killings shake the quiet life of Devon's Tavy valley. Country doctor Gabriel Taverner, summoned by the coroner to examine the bodies, believes that the murders are somehow connected to a mysterious woman recently discovered in shocking circumstances. Gabriel is...  more

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The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field, and Nell’s personal hero. But she hasn't seen or spoken to him ever since he cruelly fired her and destroyed her reputation after an argument over an old, cheap...  more

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Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson
What happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and ten-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival....  more

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Checked Out (Village Library, Bk 1) by Elizabeth Spann Craig
There are no renewals when you’re permanently checked out. When librarian Ann Beckett finally reluctantly agrees to being set-up on a blind date by one of her over-eager patrons, she figures that the worst that could happen would be that the two of them wouldn’t hit it off. Little...  more

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Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
Set in 1944 Chicago, Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during...  more

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Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he...  more

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The Colour of Murder (British Library Crime Classics) by Julian Symons
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS 'One of our most ingenious and stylish home-grown crime novelists' ? Spectator 'A book to delight every puzzle-suspense enthusiast' ? New York Times John Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking at his wife,...  more

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Crossings by Alex Landragin
Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debutâۥa novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a...  more

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Dance with Death (Barker & Llewelyn, Bk 12) by Will Thomas
In June of 1893, the future Nicholas II of Russia travels to London for a royal wedding, bringing with him his private security force and his ballerina mistress, Mathilde Kschesinska. Rumored to be the target of a professional assassin known only as La Sylphide, Nicholas is protected by not only...  more

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The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and...
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II. With victory close at hand, the...  more

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The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem. After a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her...  more

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in...  more

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The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is...  more

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The Extraordinaries (Extraordinaries, Bk 1) by T. J. Klune
Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right? After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. And...  more

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Fierce Poison (Barker & Llewelyn, Bk 13) by Will Thomas
London, 1893, there is poisoner loose in the city, with deaths piling up, and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are apparently his next target in Fierce Poison by Will Thomas. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all—he's been attacked by...  more

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The Forgettable Miss French (Shadowvale, Bk 3) by Kristen Painter
Shadowvale isn’t your typical small town America. The sun never shines, the gates decide who enters, magic abounds, and every resident bears some kind of curse.  Werewolf Virginia "Ginny" French's curse means no one can remember her. Not even for as long as it takes...  more

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French Braid by Anne Tyler
A funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959....  more

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Blood of Ambrose (Morlock Ambrosius, Bk 1) by James Enge
In a remote city on the edge of two worlds, where blood has power and water is more precious than freedom, three far-flung friends unite on a quest to save their families. Sal Hrvati’s estranged father has brought more into the world than the woman he loved. Instead of saving her from the...  more

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The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naive 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 jail, she learns she is sentenced to “the land beyond...  more

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All Roads Lead to Whitechapel (Volume 1) (Baker Street Inquiries (1)) by Michelle Bir...
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A Death of No Importance (Jane Prescott, Bk 1) by Mariah Fredericks
Jane Prescott has perfected the art of serving as a ladies’ maid in the upper-most echelons of 1910 New York City society. Invisible until she’s needed, Jane has a deft hand and a sharp, observant mind. Which means she sees a lot more than the wealthy, glamorous people she serves...  more

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