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• Forged in Rome

  Iggulden, Conn

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  Ancient Rome, AD 37 A scribe in a noble household, all Cormac has ever known is a life of slavery. When his master suddenly relieves him of his post, Cormac is furnished with documents to free him from bondage but given no means to survive.

• The Book of I

  Greig, David

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  The year is 825 CE. In the aftermath of a vicious attack by raiders from the north, an unlikely trio finds themselves the lone survivors on a remote Scottish isle. Still breathing are young Brother Martin, the only resident of the local monastery to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wax Child

  Ravn, Olga

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  A woman is hounded by accusations of witchcraft in 16th-century Denmark. An extraordinary and unsettling read.

• The Hong Kong Widow

  Loesch, Kristen

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  In 1950s Hong Kong, refugee Mei enters a deadly seance competition in a haunted mansion. Decades later, the horrors of the final night return, demanding she confront what truly happened.

• The Other March Sisters

  Epstein, Linda

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  A reimagining of the classic, Little Women, told from the point of view of Amy, Meg and Beth.

• Shadow Ticket

  Pynchon, Thomas

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  It's the Great Depression, and private eye Hicks McTaggart takes on a routine case that turns out to be anything but. Before he finds her, he will be entangled with Nazis, spies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, and outlaw…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club

  Kelly, Martha Hall

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  Two sisters living on Martha's Vineyard during World War II find hope in the power of storytelling when they start a wartime book club for women in this spectacular novel inspired by true events.

• Amity

  Harris, Nathan

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  A gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to finally reunite, all while escaping a former master still intent on their bondage

• The Lack of Light

  a Novel of Georgia

  Haratischwili, Nino, 1983-

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  A page-turning epic of loss and redemption in the vein of Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, about a group of four women who formed a deep friendship in the turbulent years leading up to and after Georgia’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The First Witch of Boston

  a Novel

  Catalano, Andrea

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  A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.