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1) Circe
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
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2018
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2 CHILDREN FOR SALE: The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences...
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After an epic snow storm ravages the city of Albany, Dr. Mary Sutter, a former Civil War surgeon, begins a search for two little girls, the daughters of close friends killed by the storm who have vanished without a trace. Mary's mother and niece Elizabeth, who has been studying violin in Paris, return to Albany upon learning of the girls' disappearance--but Elizabeth has another reason for wanting to come home, one she is not willing to reveal. Despite...
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2012
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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
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"When Alice Jones, a blue-color woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of one of New York's most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society--and eventually sets the city afire when Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her "Negro blood" and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. While New York society in the Roaring Twenties witnessed more than a few scandals,...
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Carolina and James Baldwin's already strained marriage suffers even more when the upper-class couple moves from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains where James is to supervise the building of a tunnel for the B&O Railroad amid severe weather and escalating tensions with the Irish railroad workers.
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As bombs fall across Europe, fourteen-year-old Lien Vinke fears that the reality of war is inescapable. And when the Nazis invade the Netherlands, joining the Dutch resistance, with her older sister Elif, offers just the atonement Lien craves. Trained to shoot by their late father, the sisters are deadly wolves in sheep's clothing. Lien forms a friendship with fellow resistance member Charlie. But in wartime, emotional attachments are a liability...
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"The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history. A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous...
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"The USA TODAY bestseller for fans of Soraya M. Lane, Heather Morris, Fiona Valpy and Pam Jenoff. Inspired by the brave women of WWII, this is a moving and powerful novel of friendship, love and resilience. A story of love not a story of a war. A daring WWII pilot who grew up among the clouds, Juliet Caron's life was one of courage, adventure - and a love torn apart by war. Every nook of her Cornish cottage is alive with memories just waiting to be...
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Random House Publishing Group
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2012
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Her name is Barbara - in Russian, Varvara. Nimble-witted and attentive, she's allowed into the employ of the Empress Elizabeth amid the glitter and cruelty of the world's most eminent court. Under the tutelage of Count Bestuzhev, Chancellor and spymaster, Varvara will learn to listen and to wait for opportunity. That opportunity arrives in a slender young princess from Zerbst named Sophie, a playful teenager destined to become the indomitable Catherine...
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As the Civil War rages across the land, courageous young Jesselynn Highwood promises her dying father that she'll take her younger brother and their Thoroughbred horses to Missouri for safekeeping during the war. Dodging both Confederate and Union troops, enduring sickness and hunger, they arrive at their destination only to encounter even greater danger. But Jesselynn will stop at nothing to save her family, the horses, and whatever remains of Twin...
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2015
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The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young policeman Virgil Holt in the audience, she swaps her saw for a fire ax. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder? When Arden's husband is found lifeless beneath the stage that night, the answer seems clear. But when taken into custody, she has a very different story...
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Shes only a number now. When Charlotte Smiths wealthy parents commit her beloved sister Phoebe to the infamous Goldengrove Asylum, Charlotte knows theres more to the story than madness. She risks everything and follows her sister inside, surrendering her real identity as a privileged young lady of San Francisco society to become a nameless inmate, Woman 99. The longer she stays, the more she realizes that many of the women of Goldengrove arent insane,...
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2008
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Windsor Castle, 1861. For only the second time in over twenty years, Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald has been summoned by the Queen. The first time, he'd been a zealous young legal clerk investigating what appeared to be a murderous conspiracy against her. Now he's a distinguished gentleman at the top of his profession. And the Queen is a woman in the grip of fear. Her beloved husband, Prince Albert, lies dying. Yet how Fitzgerald can help is unclear....
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"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler's forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away and even starting a...