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"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, a.k.a. 'Diamond Annie,' is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She's ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind, with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her 'family'--it's how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she's now the target for one of Britain's first female...
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Miniaturist novels volume 2
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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In 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt, on her eighteenth birthday, which marks the day her mother died, receives a parcel containing a miniature figure of her secret lover, which changes her fate forever.
5) Ashes
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Seeds of America trilogy volume 3
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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[2016]
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298 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
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A dual-timeline historical novel of codebreaking, secrets, murder, and romance, set in Hawaii in 1943 and 1965, follows two women--a cryptanalyist working to defeat the Japanese Army, and a rookie journalist investigating the disappearance of a high-profile guest during the grand opening of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel.
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"On a golden August morning in 1939, sisters Antonina and Helena Dbrowska send their father off to defend Poland against the looming threat of German invasion. The next day, the first bombs fall on Warsaw, decimating their beloved city and shattering the world of their youth. When Antonina's beloved Marek is forced behind ghetto walls, along with the rest of Warsaw's Jewish population, Antonina knows she cannot stand by and soon becomes a key figure...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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[2024]
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247 pages ; 24 cm
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A story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and friends, all while fighting for a dream. Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a...novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s...Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a story of...
12) The mercies
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Little, Brown and Company
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2020.
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336 pages cm
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After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.
13) Learned by heart
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York.
14) Palmares
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Beacon Press
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[2021].
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492 pages ; 24 cm
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Palmares recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband, lost in battle.
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Random House
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[2016]
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368 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Cravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.
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Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
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In German-occupied Rome during World War II, as diplomats, refugees and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest risk everything, including their lives, to help thoseseeking refuge.
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2008
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“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of...
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of...
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