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Girl Waits with Gun
Girl Waits with Gun
by Amy Stewart
Reviewed: Jun 22, 2015
 
Published: May 3, 2016
 
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true adventure of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs.
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(4.5/5)
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The Alaskan Laundry
The Alaskan Laundry
by Brendan Jones
Reviewed: Jan 18, 2016
 
Published: Apr 26, 2016
 
A fresh debut novel about a lost, fierce young woman who moves to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing, as far as the icy Bering Sea.
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(4.1/5)
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The Dark Lady's Mask
The Dark Lady's Mask
by Mary Sharratt
Reviewed: Jan 18, 2016
 
Published: Apr 19, 2016
 
A novel of Aemilia Bassano Lanier, the first professional woman poet in Renaissance England, and her collaboration - and star-crossed love affair - with William Shakespeare.
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(4.3/5)
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The Midnight Watch
The Midnight Watch : A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian
by David Dyer
Reviewed: Jan 25, 2016
 
Published: Apr 5, 2016
 
David Dyer's The Midnight Watch is a powerful and dramatic debut novel - the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.
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(4.7/5)
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The Railwayman's Wife
The Railwayman's Wife
by Ashley Hay
Reviewed: Jan 18, 2016
 
Published: Apr 5, 2016
 
The Railwayman's Wife explores the power of beginnings and endings, and how hard it can sometimes be to tell them apart. Most of all, it celebrates love in all its forms, and the beauty of discovering that loving someone can be as extraordinary as ...
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(4.2/5)
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Tuesday Nights in 1980
Tuesday Nights in 1980
by Molly Prentiss
Reviewed: Dec 14, 2015
 
Published: Apr 5, 2016
 
An intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and their shared muse as they find their way - and ultimately collide - amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.
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(4.4/5)
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Far From True
Far From True : A Promise Falls Novel
by Linwood Barclay
Reviewed: Dec 14, 2015
 
Published: Mar 22, 2016
 
New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers the second spine-chilling thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls, following the electrifying cliffhanger ending of Broken Promise...
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(3.9/5)
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Shelter
Shelter
by Jung Yun
Reviewed: Dec 14, 2015
 
Published: Mar 15, 2016
 
You can never know what goes on behind closed doors.
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(4.3/5)
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