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  Pale Shadows

  Dominique Fortier

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  NOMINATED FOR THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 
  SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTIONFEATURED ON LITHUBCBC BOOKS:2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW 
  Dickinson after her death: a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinson’s poems out of the shadows  
  When she died, Emily Dickinson left behind hundreds of texts scribbled on scraps of paper. She also left behind three formidable women: her steadfast sister, Lavinia; her brother’s ambitious mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd; and his grief-stricken wife, Susan Gilbert Dickinson. With no clear instructions from Emily, these three women would, through mourning and strife, make from those scraps of paper a book that would change American literature. 
  From the author of Paper Houses, this is the improbable, almost miraculous, story of the birth of a book years after the death of its author. In these sensitive and luminous pages, Dominique Fortier explores, through Dickinson’s poetry, the mysterious power that books have over our lives, and the fragile and necessary character of literature.

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  The Witch’s Stone - A BRAND NEW...

  Kirsty Ferry

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  A BRAND-NEW haunting and chilling gothic historical mystery, perfect for fans of C.J. Cooke and Laura Purcell.⛪🪦🧙📚 'Pacy, gripping, beautifully written and utterly unforgettable.' Bestselling author Elena Collins  
  Some legends never die – they wait for you to come home. 
  When Jess Morgan arrives in Northumberland to research the history of a crumbling chapel, she’s drawn to the legend of the Brinkburn Witch – a woman said to appear when blood is spilled near an ancient standing stone. But the longer Jess stays, the stranger things become. Whispers echo through empty corridors, shadows move where none should, and the boundary between dreams and memory begins to blur. 
  Over a century earlier, Eliza Stratford turned to the witch for help after a violent betrayal – and sealed her fate with a terrible bargain. Now her story, and the secrets she died to protect, are surfacing again. 
  As Jess unearths the truth behind the legend, she begins to suspect her own connection to the past runs deeper than she ever imagined – and that some ghosts will do anything to be remembered… 
  Atmospheric, haunting and rich with dark folklore, The Witch's Stone is a spellbinding gothic timeslip mystery where the past refuses to stay buried. 'Kirsty Ferry draws the reader into the wild beauty of Northumbria in this captivating dual-timeline story. I couldn’t put it down.' Alexandra Walsh  'The queen of timeslips has well and truly reclaimed her crown. It’s goth, it’s spooky, it’s atmospheric and beautifully written.' Ella Cook 'Unputdownable...and delightfully spooky. Kirsty Ferry has created an atmosphere that's perfectly ghostly and beautiful, sad and dramatic, and doesn't disappoint at any point. The story is seamlessly intertwining past and present, not revealing anything too quickly, and I want to read it again.' Natalie Normann 'I couldn’t put it down. Kirsty keeps getting better and better. Can’t wait for the next one.' Anni Rose  
  Why readers love Kirsty Ferry: 
  'What's not to like? - a Kirsty Ferry timeslip tale with lots of spooky happenings. Enjoy!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 
  'Loved this book, couldn’t put it down. Read it in a day.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 
  'Marvellously spooky and atmospheric' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 
  'I hadn’t expected a ghost story entwined. I loved it. I couldn’t put it down.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review

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  Blue Desert

  Celia Jeffries

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  2021 IPNE Finalist, Literary Fiction 
   
   
   
  2021 Women's Book Awards Sarton Finalist, Historical Fiction 
   
   
   
  Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled, and the women hold property—a world in which anything can happen. It is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England. 
   
   
   
  In 1917, Alice returns home to a world completely alien to the one she left in the Sahara. Her silence about that life is finally broken sixty years later when she receives a telegram announcing Abu has died in the desert. "Who is Abu?" her husband asks. "My lover," she replies. Thus, begins a weeklong journey of revelation as Alice lays bare her secrets. 
   
   
   
  Can Alice face her demons and open her heart more fully to the life she once lived in the Sahara—a life she has hidden from her husband and herself? Blue Desert is a story of exile, family secrets, and the power of love.

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  The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  Agatha Christie, Gabrielle de Cuir

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  Agatha Christie’s debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, features the first appearance of the eccentric Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Poirot must use his unusual methods and his singular charm to solve the murder of the rich, elderly Emily Inglethorpe. Fortunately, Poirot’s old friend Arthur Hastings happens to be staying at Styles Court, an Essex country manor, at the time of the murder, and he is a ready right-hand man during Poirot’s investigation. 
  Suspects abound and Poirot employs all his wits to determine who did the deed. Could it have been Mrs. Inglethorpe’s much younger husband? Or perhaps her resentful stepsons? The family friend working as her nurse is not free of suspicion, nor is her maid of many years. It may even have been the poisons specialist who just so happens to be staying in a nearby village. 
  Everyone staying at Styles has secrets they are trying to keep, but Poirot cuts through these deceptions with the resourcefulness, exactitude, and attention to detail that has made him one of the most intriguing figures in literary history.

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  Dance with the Devil - A Novel

  Kirk Douglas

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  Thought-provoking, riveting, and erotic, Dance with the Devil is the debut novel of legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Hollywood can be a tough town, but it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At 55, he's wealthy, successful, and respected throughout the film world. But Danny has been living a lie. Haunted by his past, he longs to find peace and answers. His true identity is buried halfway around the world in the ruins of a Nazi concentration camp. Danny believes his secret to be safe— until he meets the young and sensuous Luba, whose mesmerizing sexuality begins to shatter his well-guarded facade.

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  The Curious Life of Elizabeth...

  Pamela Holmes

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  An engrossing historical saga based on the life of the eighteenth-century woman who endured loss and betrayal—and dared to pursue her dreams. Her parents warned Elizabeth that Alexander Blackwell would not make a dependable husband, and only after eloping with him did she learn they may have been right . . . After their marriage, the couple finds lodgings in London. Alexander looks for work while Elizabeth learns engraving. Before long, though, Alexander is in the Marshalsea, the notorious debtors’ prison, and she is left to fend for herself. Alone and penniless, she has a few things going for her: a skill, an idea, and an acquaintance. Elizabeth embarks on a quest that earns her a small fortune and may allow her to buy her husband’s freedom. It seems like she may live happily ever after. But her extraordinary story isn’t over yet . . .Praise for Pamela Holmes “A genuinely original, utterly enchanting story.” —A. N. Wilson, author of Victoria: A Life “[A] lyrical novel that skillfully represents the constraints placed on middle-class women of the era.” —Historical Novel Society

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