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The Tower
by Flora Carr
In 1567 Scotland, Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in the isolated Lochleven Castle, along with her two inconspicuous serving women, and, after reluctantly surrendering her throne, is joined by her closest friend, Lady Seton, and they all hatch a perilous getaway plan, forming a bond that transcends class and religion.
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| Rough Trade by Katrina CarrascoThis descriptive and stylistically complex follow-up to The Best Bad Things returns readers to the Washington Territory in the late 1880s, where they first met ex-Pinkerton agent Alma Rosales. This time, Alma (living undercover as a man named Jack) must solve a string of murders which are drawing attention to the opium smuggling operation she runs with high-society lover Delphine. |
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| The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan ChurchSeventeen-year-old Lorraine wants to be first female valedictorian at her high school and the first woman in space, unusual dreams for a girl in 1960s North Carolina. Her dreams only become more distant when she's sent to a "maternity home" after discovering she's pregnant, but the ambitious and driven Lorraine is determined to make the best of a seemingly dwindling list of possibilities for her future. |
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| All the World Beside by Garrard ConleySet in a small Massachusetts village during the First Great Awakening, this well-researched, heartwrenching tale of faith and forbidden love centers on the very passionate (and equally dangerous) romantic connection that develops between devout preacher Nathaniel Whitfield and the town doctor Arthur Lyman. For fans of The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. and The Disenchantment by Celia Bell. |
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| The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara DonatiResourceful nurse and midwife Carrie Ballentyne (granddaughter of Elizabeth Middleton, who readers first met in Into the Wilderness) leaves her position at a New York charity hospital in 1857 for a job in the New Mexico Territory, embarking on a journey as rife with danger and distress as it is rich with possibility and opportunities to save lives. |
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| The Book of Thorns by Hester FoxThis atmospheric and magical realism-tinged tale set during the Napoleonic Wars is narrated from the alternating perspectives of two women who don't know they're sisters -- the English Cornelia, who escapes the possibility of an arranged marriage by traveling with the French Army as a botanical healer, and Belgian servant Lijsbeth, who makes the most of her own connection with flowers on the other side of the conflict. |
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| Double Lives by Mary MonroeIn this atmospheric and compelling 4th entry in Mary Monroe's series of novels set in the status-obsessed, Jim Crow era Black community of Lexington, Alabama, identical twin sisters Fiona and Leona take their childhood trick of occasionally switching places into much more fraught territory as adults, with much higher stakes to match. |
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All Our Yesterdays
by Joel H. Morris
A novel set 10 years before the events in Shakespeare's classic play follows the life of Lady Macbeth who was married to the violent, sadistic Mormaer of Moray at age 15 and relied on her wits to survive with her young son.
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The Underground Library
by Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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| A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose SutherlandThis queer retelling of classic Celtic folktale The Selkie Wife takes place in 1830s Nova Scotia, where midwife Jean Langille assists Muirin, a woman going into labor on a nearby beach. The two form a strong bond despite a language barrier, which only grows deeper when Jean mistakes Muirin's behavior for postpartum depression. |
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