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  Beautiful Little Fools: Book...

  Margot Langley

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas. 
  Step into the glittering world of 1920s intrigue and ambition with Beautiful Little Fools. Follow a poised professional athlete turned social detective as she unpacks hidden motives behind opulent parties, covert alliances, and whispered secrets. Blending high-stakes negotiation tactics with emotional resilience strategies, this audiobook transforms every ballroom confrontation into a masterclass in adaptive leadership, every scandal into an opportunity for principled action. You’ll learn to craft rigorous prep routines, build trusted networks, and cultivate reflective rituals that turn setbacks into breakthroughs. Let this riveting tale inspire you to navigate life’s grandest stages with clarity, courage, and unshakable purpose.

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  The Keening - A Mystery of...

  Anne Emery

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  The murdered body of Sorcha the prophetess is discovered following a lavish banquet at the Maguire castle in 16th-century Ireland. In the present day, a dig commences on the land, and not only is a body discovered, but a sheaf of prophecies. Who killed Sorcha?
  		 
  There has been a guesthouse on the Tierney land in County Fermanagh for hundreds of years. Now Tierney’s Hotel is faced with a development that will block the hotel’s best feature, its view of Enniskillen Castle. But the project can be stopped if there are important historical artifacts buried on the property. Enter the archaeologists.
  		 
  Mick’s ancestor, Brigid Tierney, ran the guesthouse in the late 1500s. We see Brigid and Shane and their children at a lavish banquet at the castle, home of the ruling family, the Maguires. The wine and ale flow freely, the harpist plays, the bard recites the Maguires’ heroic deeds. But one woman has a sense of foreboding. Sorcha the prophetess sees harrowing times ahead. The Tudors of England are determined to complete their brutal conquest of Ireland.
  		 
  The morning after the banquet, Sorcha is found dead on a bed of oak leaves. And Shane is accused of the killing. His lawyer, Terence, conducts his defence on the hilltop that constitutes the court in 1595.
  		 
  Ireland has had a complex and at times woeful history, and we see that history being played out in the lives of the Tierneys, past and present. 
  		 
  In 2018, the dig commences on Mick Tierney’s land. Historical artifacts? Yes. But also a sheaf of prophecies. And a body ― a bogman ― four hundred years old.

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  Hemingway’s Daughter

  Christine M. Whitehead

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  Finn Hemingway knows for a fact that she's been born at the wrong time into the wrong family with the wrong talents, making her three dreams for the future almost impossible to attain. 
   
   
   
  She burns to be a trial lawyer in an era when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being told to type and when a man who is 500th in his law school class is hired over a woman who is first in hers. 
   
   
   
  She yearns to find true love when the family curse dictates that love always ends for the Hemingways, and usually, it ends badly. And finally, she'd give up the first two dreams if she were able to triumph on the third. 
   
   
   
  She longs to have an impact on the only thing that matters to her father: his writing. To accomplish that would require a miracle. All three dreams are almost impossible, but it's the "almost" that keeps Finn going. 
   
   
   
  Ernest Hemingway had three sons but ached to have a daughter. This is her story.

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  A Divided Duty - Divided by war;...

  Ben Vizard

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  1939. 
  Declared unfit for active service after the Great War, Richard Hansen feels rudderless and out of place. But when the unthinkable happens and the shadow of a new conflict looms, he is thrust into enemy territory once again for a final, covert mission.  
  Devastated and mourning her own catastrophic losses, his wife Emily is alone and adrift in a once-idyllic marriage grown cold and distant. When one day a surprise visitor comes calling she is faced with a choice that may grant her the very thing she has always longed for… or lead her into terrible danger.  
  As Europe goes to war a second time and Richard and Emily’s paths are wrenched apart, each must confront the ghosts of their own past, battling forces both seen and unseen as their lifelong love is tested to its limits - by duty, grief, time, and betrayal. 

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  The Embroidered Book

  Kate Heartfield

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  *Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel*‘Spellbinding’ JJA Harwood‘An entertaining and dark read’ Stylist‘An absorbing novel’ Guardian‘Beautifully written’ Elizabeth Chadwick 
  ‘Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that’s all’ 
  1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename her Marie Antoinette. 
  The sisters are alone, but they are not powerless. When they were only children, they discovered a book of spells – spells that work, with dark and unpredictable consequences. 
  In a time of vicious court politics, of discovery and dizzying change, they use the book to take control of their lives. 
  But every spell requires a sacrifice. And as love between the sisters turns to rivalry, they will send Europe spiralling into revolution. 
  Brimming with romance, betrayal, and enchantment, The Embroidered Book reimagines a dazzling period of history as you have never seen it before. 
  Kate Heartfield, the Sunday Times bestselling author, presents The Embroidered Book, a historical and alternative fiction that tells a romantic and fantastical coming of age story. This bestselling book is a top pick for readers who enjoy a blend of history and fantasy. 
  For fans of William Wood (Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel, Volume II), Lucy A. Snyder (Ashes and Entropy), Michael Paul Gonzalez (Beneath the Salton Sea), E.E. King (Worth 1,000 Words), and K. G. Mcabee (Boneyard Junction). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  Brookland - A Novel

  Emily Barton

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  A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearSince her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, established as the owner of the enormously successful gin distillery she inherited from her father, she can begin to realize her dream.Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn, this is the story of a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span. With the help of the local surveyor, Benjamin Horsfield, and her sisters—the high-spirited, obstreperous Tem, who works with her in the distillery, and the silent, uncanny Pearl—she fires the imaginations of the people of Brooklyn and New York by promising them a bridge that will meet their most pressing practical needs while being one of the most ambitious public works ever attempted. Prue's own life and the life of the bridge become inextricably bound together as the costs of the bridge, both financial and human, rise beyond her direst expectations.Brookland confirms Emily Barton's reputation as one of the finest writers of her generation, whose work is "blessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt" (Thomas Pynchon).

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