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• The Benevolent Society of Ill-mannered Ladies

  Goodman, Alison

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  A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an "old maid" to protect other women in a new historical mystery series.

• Diva

  a Novel

  Goodwin, Daisy

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  The story about a scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer - a woman whose extraordinary talent, drive and natural chic made her a legend of all time - and one of the richest men in the world.

• A Girl Called Samson

  a Novel

  Harmon, Amy

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  As the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence against Great Britain, Deborah, a young woman impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in the Continental Army, posing as a man.

• Lady Tan's Circle of Women

  a Novel

  See, Lisa

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  Tan Yunxian, a historical doctor from 15th-century China, finds her calling at odds with the traditional duties of marriage and motherhood.

• The Last Lifeboat

  Gaynor, Hazel

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  Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Little Wartime Library

  Thompson, Kate, 1974-

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  London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country's only underground library. But as the war drags…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

  Salazar, Noelle

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  While preparing an exhibit at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters Under the Rising Sun

  a Novel

  Morris, Heather (Screenwriter)

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  In the midst of World War II, two women are captured and held in a Japanese POW camp. Sisters in arms, English musician Norah and Nesta, a Welsh Australian nurse, fight side by side every day, helping whomever they can, and discovering in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

  Wright, Jaime Jo

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  In 1865, orphaned Daisy takes a housemaid position for an eccentric Gothic authoress who hides a story more harrowing than those in her novels. Centuries later, Cleo Clemmons uncovers an age-old mystery, and the dust of the old castle's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unsettled

  a Novel

  Mathis, Ayana

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  1985: Ava Carson and her young son arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is…Read moreRead more of this annotation