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21) Morning Girl
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Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
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"A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley"--
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Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
208 pages cm
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"Portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and the cruel and dictatorial family father, set against a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. The book spans the period from 1973, just before the Khmer Rouge genocide, to 2015"--
26) The last crown
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Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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"Across Baltic shores, English battlegrounds, and the land of Northen Lights, The Last Crown is the follow up to The Widow Queen, and the epic conclusion of Swietoslawa's journey from Polish princess to Queen of Denmark & Sweden and Queen Mother of England"--
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"Musician Natalie Curtis is broken by strict training and a lost love. After encountering Native American music, she is determined to save these ancient songs which are being silenced by the government. In doing so, Natalie steps inside the space betweenthe notes to discover something she'd forgotten-music powerful enough to heal. Based on a true story"--
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Andy Mills mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
While investigating the mysterious death of matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of a famous soap empire, Andy Mills is seduced by the safety and freedom found in Lavender House, where a queer family lives honestly and openly, until he becomes a pawn in their deadly game.
29) Uprising
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht-the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
31) Light and air
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Holiday House
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"Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York"--
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Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
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"Two young friends are separated by unspeakable tragedy during the Greek Civil War, haunted by a vow to return to one another and their home on the island of Corfu where queens, villagers, and goddesses come together to prove there is no force more powerful than the magic of a mother's love"--
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Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 21 cm
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When Fabienne Bissette attends the annual Met Gala for an exhibit honoring her grandmother Estella, a famed designer, she begins to learn more about her grandmother's past, uncovering a story of tragedy, heartbreak, and secrets.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 3
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the midst of his wedding reception, Hornblower receives orders to report the next day to his command in the Channel Fleet and help protect England against Napoleon's threatened invasion.
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Refined by love volume 2
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"Rose McKay has just graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and is now making every effort to succeed in the pottery business in post-Civil War West Virginia, including taking advice from her handsome competitor--but has she put her trust in the wrong man?"--
37) Sugar
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In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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ix, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry follows a penniless Irish girl who adopts the identity of a boy in order to enter medical school, and embracing the freedom of living life as a man, becomes one of the most well-respected physiciansin nineteenth-century Cape Town.
39) Pandora: A Novel
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
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#1 Sunday Times Bestseller
A Library Journal Best Book of 2023
"Lush, evocative and utterly irresistible."—Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne
Prepare to lift the lid on a lush reimagination of the mythological Pandora....Susan Stokes-Chapman's atmospheric debut, PANDORA, immerses the reader in the dangerous, mysterious world of ancient antiquities with prose that
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Bounty novels (Paul Colt) volume 2
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 23 cm.
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