When the World Was Ours – three children experience the horrors of World War II.
It is 1936, Vienna. Max and Elsa are celebrating with Leo. It’s his ninth birthday. When asked what he wants to do, Leo picks riding...
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- May 17, 2021
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel: two families decide the fate of their once grand Catskills resort.
The beloved Golden Hotel in the Catskills has seen better days. All the other resorts and hotels from its era have closed. The Golden...
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- May 16, 2021
The Downstairs Neighbor – secrets and lies among neighbors.
A Georgian townhouse in London is the setting for this engaging thriller. Steph and Paul Harlow and their daughter Freya live on the top...
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- May 15, 2021
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba – courageous women on the eve of the Spanish-American War.
It’s 1896 and New York City’s Park Row is a battlefield between two rival publishers: William Randolph Hearst (New York Journal) and...
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- May 13, 2021
The Last Bookshop in London - the power of reading keeps hope alive during wartime.
It’s 1939 and Grace Bennett and her best friend Viv move to London to live with Mrs. Weatherford, a close family friend. Viv gets a job...
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- May 11, 2021
A Summer to Remember – a heartwarming story of family secrets, lies and forgiveness.
Frankie Simon is thirty years old and is grieving the loss of her mother, who had never revealed who her father was. She continues to run...
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- May 10, 2021
Mary Jane - a memorable coming-of-age story set in 1970s Baltimore.
It is 1975. Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Dillard is a bit of an outsider. She comes from a strict home with a mother who prides herself on...
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- May 8, 2021
People We Meet on Vacation - a clever, refreshing romantic comedy.
Extroverted Poppy and the introverted Alex become unlikely best friends. They are both from a small town in Ohio and met while at the...
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- May 7, 2021
The Plot - a failing writer steals the plot of a book in this well done thriller.
Writer Jacob Finch Bonner knows the feeling of being a promising author. His first book was cited in the New York Times Book Review’s...
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- May 5, 2021
Surviving Savannah - a steamship disaster inspired this engrossing book about the will to survive.
Everly Winthrop had grown up hearing about the tragedy of the Pulaski, a steamship that sunk off the coast of North Carolina in 1838...
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- May 3, 2021
The Siren - escape into this satisfying thriller about revenge on a remote movie set.
After I read Katherine St. John’s debut novel The Lion’s Den, which came out last year, I knew she was an author to watch. Her second...
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- May 1, 2021
The Woman with the Blue Star – a haunting WWII-era story of friendship and the will to survive.
Pam Jenoff’s latest WWII-era novel is set in Poland. In this moving book’s prologue, a woman in her 70s has traveled to Kraków and has...
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- Apr 29, 2021
The Newcomer - an entertaining beach read with mystery and a little romance.
Letty, who is living in New York City, finds her sister Tanya murdered. Tanya had told her that if anything ever happened to her, she was...
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- Apr 26, 2021
Relentless (Gray Man #10): non-stop action.
Court Gentry is the Gray Man – a legendary hired assassin, rogue operative and the CIA’s secret weapon. In this impressive tenth book in...
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- Apr 22, 2021
The Last Night in London - a captivating wartime story. Love, secrets, betrayal, regret, heroism.
In 2019, Maddie Warner, who had spent a year studying at Oxford, travels back to London from the United States to write a freelance...
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- Apr 20, 2021
The Paris Apartment - a hidden place filled with art reveals the secrets of a socialite during WWII.
In 2017, Aurelia (Lia) Leclaire inherits her grandmother’s Paris apartment – a place she was unaware existed. What she discovers in this...
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- Apr 19, 2021
The Social Graces - a journey back to the Gilded Age and the world of the Astors and Vanderbilts.
Thirty years after the Civil War, there became a stark divide between the incredibly wealthy and the nation’s poor. And no place showed...
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- Apr 17, 2021
The Perfect Daughter - did one of Penny's alternate personalities commit murder or is she a victim?
All the evidence points to teenager Penny Falcone as the killer of her birth mother Rachel Boyd. But did she do it? Was it one of her...
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- Apr 16, 2021
The Last Thing to Burn - heartbreaking story of survival and resilience.
Thanh “Jane” Dao and her younger sister Kim-Ly come to England from Vietnam through illegal passage in a container. The sisters are...
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- Apr 13, 2021
Little Pieces of Me - a woman's emotional journey to find her true identity.
Paige Meyer is 43 years old and is planning her wedding. She has a difficult relationship with her mother Elizabeth. She is still...
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