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  The Girl From Verona

  Siobhan Daiko

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  The Lady with the Dark Hair - A...

  Erin Bartels

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  2025 Michigan Notable Book 
   
  "Bartels perfectly meshes the stories of two 
  women, both artists, living half a world and nearly a century-and-a-half apart. Bartels' settings and historical details are unusual and compelling; the dual time lines work perfectly, and this well-researched historical tale has the pacing of a thriller."--Booklist starred review 
   
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  Esther Markstrom and her artist mother have always been proud of their ancestor, painter Francisco Vella. They even run a small museum and gallery dedicated to raising awareness of his scandalously underappreciated work. But when Esther reconnects with her former art history professor, she finds her once-solid family history on shaky ground as questions arise about Vella's greatest work--a portrait entitled The Lady with the Dark Hair. 
   
  In 1879, Catalan orphan-turned-fugitive Viviana Torrens has found sanctuary serving in the home of an aging artist in Southern France. It is in his studio that she meets Francisco Vella, a Gibraltarian merchant who sells artists' pigments. When her past catches up to her, she is compellefd to pose as Vella's sister and join him on his travels or be deported back to Spain to stand trial. Along the way she will discover that the many parts she has been playing in order to hide her identity have far-reaching implications she never could have foreseen. 
   
  This dual-timeline story from award-winning author Erin Bartels takes readers from the sleepy Midwest to the sultry Mediterranean on a relentless search for truth, identity, and the freedom to follow one's dreams. 
   
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  "In the alluring novel The Lady with the Dark Hair, questions about a portrait's origins inspire a search for personal meaning."--Foreword Reviews 
   
  "A fascinating time-split written by an author who consistently writes unique stories with layers upon layers of starts and stops, her characters merging and diverging upon the page, much like the brushstrokes on the incredible portrait."--Interviews & Reviews 
   
  "I was thoroughly captivated by this story. . . .Bartels' writing is impeccable, her characters are full of life, and her mastery of both timelines is seamless."--Reading Is My Superpower 
   
  "Carefully crafted with lots of historical detail, elegant language, and interesting twists. . . . The book educates readers about the art world while absorbing them in a great story."--The Historical Novels Review 
   
  "Bartels' latest addition to her excellent novels for adults . . . adeptly gives voice to the longing women in different historical periods have felt to know themselves, to express themselves through creative pursuits, and to find fulfillment by choosing their own paths."--The Banner

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  Six Weeks by the Sea - A Novel

  Paula Byrne

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  When Jane Austen hears the news that her family is to leave their beloved country home for the city of Bath, she faints with surprise and horror. But there is one compensation: the promise of a six-week holiday by the sea while their new lodgings are being prepared. She relishes the bracing air and beautiful surroundings, takes pleasure in sea bathing, and shares laughter with her sister Cassandra and best friend Martha Lloyd.To her joy, brother Frank arrives, fresh from naval exploits in the war against Napoleon. His friend Captain Parker seems to be making a play for Jane's affections, but her sharp emotional intelligence tells her that something is not quite right. Meanwhile, she assists the eccentric Reverend Swete in finding a home for his biracial granddaughter who has arrived from the West Indies. Jane initially takes against another visitor to the seaside resort of Sidmouth, the lawyer Samuel Rose, but as she gets to know him, a wholly different feeling begins to blossom . . .Written with a same wit and style that echoes Austen herself, Paula Byrne expertly interweaves her deep knowledge of Austen and her world to imagine and give voice to the most romantic summer of the beloved author's short life.

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  The House Book

  Susan Greenwood

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  1663 
   
   
   
  At twenty years old, Alice Crayford becomes mistress of Oakwood Grange, a house built by her father, and she begins her diary. The house remains in the ownership of one family for three and a half centuries, each generation faithfully recording details of their household in The House Book. Eventually, the family line dies out. 
   
   
   
  1985 
   
   
   
  Oakwood Grange has new owners. Janie Whittaker feels an unaccountable attachment to the old place from the very first visit and, inspired by The House Book, decides it's time she traced the estranged branch of her own family. But it's Janie's discovery of Alice's diary in amongst some old papers which provides a more interesting link between past and present and soon she's absorbed in Alice's world. Meanwhile, Janie can't help noticing one or two strange little occurrences in the house—even their foundling cat seems a bit odd—but none of this really fazes her. 
   
   
   
  It's true the witches' marks over the fireplace are a bit unsettling, but then belief in witches was commonplace in the seventeenth century and now, surely, everyone knows . . . there's no such thing as witchcraft?

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  A Fisher Girl's Destiny

  Evelyn Hood

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  A Scottish saga of hope and overcoming adversity from Sunday Times betselling author Evelyn Hood 
  Can a simple fisher lass rise above adversity to realise her ambitions? 
  Buckthorne Scotland, 1873 
  All alone, following her mother death, seventeen-year-old Eden Murray returns to her deceased father’s fishing village in search if her roots and a future. 
  Eden has worked in the fishing industry since the age of twelve and is soon employed by local businesswoman Euphemia Ross. Her Uncle Caleb provides her a home out of a sense of duty when Eden is subjected to the unwanted advances of her cousin, John. 
  Much to Euphemia’s annoyance, Eden and her son Lewis Ross strike up a friendship. But Euphemia has grander plans for her son and is hostile towards Eden in preventing them ever having a future together. 
  Eden sets her own ambitions higher than being a simple fisher lass but soon learns a terrible secret and is cast off by the family. 
  But good fortune favours Eden when an unexpected inheritance changes the course of her life. Suddenly she has the means and determination to fight back against those who have wronged her. 
  But can a hastily made marriage vow to the wrong man and her continued longing for Lewis Ross threaten the business she is building? 
  Storytelling at its best, Evelyn Hood is the original bestselling Scottish saga writer. 
  Previously published in paperback as Gold Round the Edges 
  PRAISE FOR EVELYN HOOD 
  'Scotland's Catherine Cookson' - Scots Magazine ‘Hood is immaculate in her historical detail’ - Scottish Herald 'Quite simply, I couldn't put it down. A rich and rewarding read' - Emma Blair 'Evelyn Hood has been called Scotland's Catherine Cookson. Unfair. She has her own distinctive voice' - Scots Magazine  ‘Touching, romantic and unforgettable’ - Reader Review  ‘Love all her books’ - Reader Review  ‘Evelyn Hood produces the best of stories’ - Reader Review ‘I cannot put her books down’ - Reader Review  ‘Love everything Evelyn Hood writes’ - Reader Review  ‘Evelyn Hood is a fantastic writer, bringing the past to life and drawing you right into the story’ - Reader Review

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  The Bones of Kekionga

  Jim Pickett

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  Travel with the 1790 United States army of militia and federal troops led by General Josiah Harmar in a "you are there" historically accurate adventure story. Harmar's undertrained troops collide with an experienced coalition of warriors led by Chief Little Turtle and Blue Jacket in a clash of cultures deep inside the Old Northwest Territory.

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