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Bomb Girls: Britains' Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II

by Jacky Hyams

Published: 2014-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, mums, and teenage girls, all "doing their bit" for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets, and war machines that would ensure victory for Britain. It was dangerous, dirty, and...

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* * * Slow,
Beautiful

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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 2005-10-05

Hardcover: 224 pages

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?Homer’s Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope’s parentage,...

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The Botticelli Secret: A Novel of Renaissance Italy (Reading Group Gold)

by Marina Fiorato

Published: 2010-03-30

Kindle Edition: 542 pages

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In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli...When part-time model and full-time prostitute Luciana Vetr...

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* * * Dark,
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Girls Burn Brighter: A Novel

by Shobha Rao

Published: 2018-03-06

Kindle Edition: 304 pages

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Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Paste, LitHub, Real Simple2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Best FictionLonglisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize“Incandescent...A searing portrait of what feminism looks like in much of the world.�...

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Pretty Woman: A Novel

by Fern Michaels

Published: 2005

Hardcover: 329 pages

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In Fern Michaels's extraordinary, inspiring New York Times bestseller, an overweight woman sets out to improve her life by losing fifty-five pounds -- and ends up changing much more than her dress size! Rosie Gardener fell under the spell of handsome Kent Bliss, and not even her best f...

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With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

by Stephen B. Oates

Published: 2011-02-08

Paperback: 544 pages

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“Full, fair, and accurate. . . . Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.” —Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book ReviewFrom preeminent Civil War historian Stephen B. Oates comes the book the Washington Post hails as “the standard on...

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Words of Radiance Part One: The Stormlight Archive Book Two

by Brandon Sanderson

Published: 2012

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Dark Chapter

by Winnie M. Li

Published: 2017-09-12

Hardcover: 352 pages

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NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELVivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society. He has grown up in a fami...

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Palindrome: A Lamb and Lavagnino Mystery (Lamb & Lavagnino)

by E. Z. Rinsky

Published: 2016-07-26

Paperback: 384 pages

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Finalist for the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel Private Eye Frank Lamb's business is simple: He finds things. Be it the world’s hottest pepper seed in a South American dictator's safe or a pair of Italian art forgers sipping Prosecco in a Miami hotel room, he delivers the good...

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The Philosopher's Flight: A Novel

by Tom Miller

Published: 2018-02-13

Hardcover: 432 pages

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A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher’s Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art. “Like his characters, Tom Miller casts a spell.” (Matthew Pearl, ...