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Rise
Rise : How a House Built a Family
by Cara Brookins
Reviewed: Sep 27, 2016
 
Published: Jan 24, 2017
 
After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible.
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(4.1/5)
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The Girl Before
The Girl Before
by JP Delaney
Reviewed: Oct 31, 2016
 
Published: Jan 24, 2017
 
In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and ...
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(4.2/5)
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
by Kathleen Rooney
Reviewed: Aug 22, 2016
 
Published: Jan 17, 2017
 
A love letter to city life, however shiny or sleazy, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great ...
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(4.4/5)
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday
The Second Mrs. Hockaday
by Susan Rivers
Reviewed: Nov 21, 2016
 
Published: Jan 10, 2017
 
A love story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how this generation - and the next - began to see their world anew.
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(4.6/5)
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Victoria
Victoria
by Daisy Goodwin
Reviewed: Sep 27, 2016
 
Published: Nov 22, 2016
 
"They think I am still a little girl who is not capable of being a Queen."

Lord Melbourne turned to look at Victoria. "They are mistaken. I have not known you long, but I observe in you a natural dignity that cannot be learnt. To me, ma'am, you ...
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(4.1/5)
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Les Parisiennes
Les Parisiennes : How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
by Anne Sebba
Reviewed: Jun 20, 2016
 
Published: Oct 18, 2016
 
New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba explores a devastating period in Paris's history and tells the stories of how women survived - or didn't - during the Nazi occupation.
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(3.7/5)
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The Next
The Next
by Stephanie Gangi
Reviewed: Jun 20, 2016
 
Published: Oct 18, 2016
 
Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She's consumed by betrayal, spending her numbered days cyberstalking Ned McGowan, her much younger ex, and watching him thrive in the spotlight with someone new, while she wastes ...
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The Comet Seekers
The Comet Seekers
by Helen Sedgwick
Reviewed: Aug 7, 2016
 
Published: Oct 11, 2016
 
A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors.
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(3.8/5)
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