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Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

by Barbara Comyns

Published: 2015-11-10

Paperback: 224 pages

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“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures.  Sophia is twenty-one and naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She se...

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Sky Girls: The True Story of the First Women's Cross-Country Air Race

by Gene Nora Jessen

Published: 2018-08-18

Paperback: 416 pages

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"A beautiful and inspiring book...fascinatingly told." ?Donna Shirley, former head of the U.S. Mars program, NASAThe exhilarating true story of the unsung pioneers who blazed a pathway towards a new era of female aviation...The year is 1929, and on the eve of America's Great Depression, ni...

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Time Is a Killer

by Michel Bussi

Published: 2018-04-10

Paperback: 512 pages

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From the author of “the wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying” After The Crash (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).A fatal accident in the past, broken lives, family secrets...Michel Bussi serves up a gripping thriller, set amid the beautiful scenery of Corsica.In th...

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Margaret the First: A Novel

by Danielle Dutton

Published: 2016-03-15

Paperback: 176 pages

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Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when ?being a writer” was not an o...

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Fall of Angels (An Inspector Redfyre Mystery)

by Barbara Cleverly

Published: 2018-05-15

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Barbara Cleverly, bestselling author of the Joe Sandilands series, introduces an ingenious new sleuth who navigates 1920s Cambridge, a European intellectual capital on the cusp of dramatic change.England 1923: Detective Inspector John Redfyre is a godsend to the Cambridge CID. The ancient ...

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So Much Life Left Over: A Novel

by Louis de Bernieres

Published: 2018-08-07

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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A POWERFULLY EVOCATIVE AND EMOTIONALLY CHARGED NOVEL FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF CORELLI’S MANDOLINThey were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends. Some were lost to the battles of the First World War, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended. Now, at the da...

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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

by Robert Hillman

Published: 2019-04-09

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A tender and wise novel about love, family, and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his world turned upside down by a vibrant woman determined to open the first bookstore his town has ever seen--and to leave her haunting memories of the Holocaust far behind."Beau...

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The Waiting Room: A Novel

by Leah Kaminsky

Published: 2016-11-15

Kindle Edition: 323 pages

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“The Waiting Room is both haunted, and haunting.”—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MarchThe Waiting Room unfolds over the course of a single, life-changing day, but the story it tells spans five decades, three continents, and one family’s compelling history of lov...

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Kill Creek

by Scott Thomas

Published: 2017-10-31

Paperback: 432 pages

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-Shortlisted for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel-Winner of the American Library Association's Horror Book of 2017 "Intensely realized and beautifully orchestrated Gothic horror." ?Joyce Carol Oates "A match for readers who enjoyed Shirley Jackson's The...

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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

by Stephen L. Carter

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 384 pages

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The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New ...