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  The Lost Child

  Kathleen McGurl

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  A sweeping dual-timeline novel from the bestselling author of The Girl from Bletchley Park. 
  All she wanted was a child of her own… 
  1912. As the steamship Carpathia takes the survivors of the Titanic to New York, Lucy desperately searches the decks for her baby, thrust into the arms of another woman as a lifeboat left, and now nowhere to be found. Madeleine is helping her journalist husband to interview the survivors, and when she meets Lucy, she promises she will do anything she can to help her find her lost child. 
  2022. When archivist Jackie finds a notebook containing the stories of women saved by the Carpathia amongst an auction lot, she learns the story of the missing baby. Desperate to start a family of her own, she feels compelled to dig further. And her search will lead her to a century-old mystery… 
  Inspired by true events, bestselling author Kathleen McGurl weaves history and fiction together in this captivating, deeply moving story.Readers LOVE The Lost Child! 
  'Such a great story… it blends the two eras so well' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'A story that will haunt you, in a good way!, long after you have finished the last page' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'A fantastic, heart wrenching novel' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'A must read' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'This compelling read was hard to put down' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
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  'Well-researched and fast-paced… I thoroughly enjoyed it' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  In this heartrending saga, the desperate search of a mother for her lost child transcends time, making The Lost Child a top best-seller. The romance that unfolds amidst the tragedy is as captivating as it is unexpected. 
  For fans of Kate Morton (The Forgotten Garden), Anna Stuart (The Midwife of Auschwitz), Rhys Bowen (The Rose Arbor), Soraya M. Lane (Under a Sky of Memories), and Daisy O'Shea (The Irish Child). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  The Travels of Dr Rebecca Harper...

  Elizabeth Woolsey

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  If you could go back in time and join the cast of your favorite television or movie Western, which would it be? 
  What if you couldn't return to your time and family? 
  Rebecca Harper had her life planned and checked off her list: a veterinary degree, husband and daughter, and her first veterinary clinical position. She was set for life. 
  But then the unexpected happened, which separated her in time and space from all she had planned. Disoriented and desperate, Rebecca begins an adventure to places she could not imagine. Facing both physical and emotional trials, she fights to find her life again. 
  In the spirit of True Grit, Rebecca will not stop until she reaches her goal. In her quest to return to her family and time, Rebecca meets both real and fictional characters of the 1800s who help her traverse America. 
  But is she able to return to the 1900s, or is she bound to the past? 
  Join Rebecca on the ride of a lifetime.

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  3 Stories - With Religious...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anton...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  Threshing of Straw

  Kim Catron

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  WINNER OF THE GREAT NOVEL CONTEST. MORE THAN 25,000 COPIES SOLD! 
  A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkable years before. A father lost in his memories of the Korean War, and a daughter caught in the middle of it all. Georgia. Thanksgiving week. 1962. 
  MACEY MAY JOHNSON knows something isn’t right when her mama puts her alone on a bus to her grandma’s farm with strict instructions to wait to be picked up at the station. She’s only nine and has never been allowed to travel by herself before, but her daddy’s gone and the bills can’t be paid. And Macey May knows her family keeps secrets. She can feel it in her bones. 
  Her grandma keeps secrets from her mama. Her mama keeps secrets from her. Her daddy, well, he keeps them even from himself. And now Macey May has one of her own. A terrible secret. But which secrets are meant to be kept, and which ones are meant to be told?

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  The Pilot's Wife - A BRAND-NEW...

  Cynthia Anderson

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  1944. Nineteen-year-old Hedy can't bear her country's neutrality in the face of the ultimate evil. This is not the Switzerland she loves, and she realises she cannot stand by without acting any longer. She joins a group smuggling Jewish children through the forest from France to refugee camps in Geneva. It's dangerous work - there are German patrols everywhere - but finally Hedy feels she is doing something worthwhile. Then one night in the forest she stumbles across a wounded American airman. Second Lieutenant Samuel Reardon was dropping supplies to the French resistance when his plane crashed. Despite the danger it will bring to her family, Hedy can't leave Samuel lost and injured, so she hides him in her father's hut. As Hedy and Samuel grow closer, so the dangers of their resistance work loom ever closer, and soon the pair must make the ultimate choice that will tear them apart. 2015. Nineteen-year-old Gina looks at her grandmother's papery hands and wonders how much time they have left together. Since her mother died, Mamie Hedy is all she has left. But then her grandmother reveals a shocking secret that takes them back to her home in the Swiss mountains, looking for answers that time never forgot. A stunningly beautiful and heartfelt WWII novel about the power of love, family, and learning from our mistakes for future generations.

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  Lincoln’s Billy

  Tom LeClair

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  Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his law partner William “Billy” Herndon, but his still-influential 1889 biography was censored by his collaborator and publisher. In Lincoln’s Billy, Tom LeClair imagines Herndon’s deathbed autobiography and the “real life” of his partner, revealing secrets about a randy and “rasslin’” Lincoln on his youthful trips to New Orleans, the hidden sources of his depression, and the untold cause of his hatred of slavery. 
  Based on the latest biographical research, Lincoln’s Billy presents a vulgar, tale-telling Lincoln unknown to most Americans and a radical, truth-telling Herndon who was more advanced—and more contemporary—than the president on public education, women’s rights, and most importantly, slavery. The abolitionist and free-thinking Billy contends with his beloved partner for sixteen years, and after the assassination, he conflicts with Lincoln’s family, other biographers, Christian fundamentalists, corrupt Republican politicians, robber barons, and Victorian propriety as he struggles to write his unconventionally frank biography. Just as strong-willed are the novel’s women: the ambitious, emotionally volatile, and mentally ill Mary Todd Lincoln as well as Herndon’s two wives—Mary Maxcy, an active intellectual helpmeet despite being the mother of six, and Anna Miles, a Democrat, Presbyterian, and slavery sympathizer with whom Billy argues issues of the day. Like the story of Lincoln’s life and autobiographies by Franklin, Douglass, and Henry Adams, Lincoln’s Billy is a classic American tale of failure, resistance, persistence, and hard-won success. 
  The author of five novels with contemporary settings, Tom LeClair pairs two vivid historical voices in Lincoln’s Billy—Abe’s “Kaintuck” vernacular and Billy’s lawyerly rhetoric—as the two attorneys duel over biographical truth and historical fiction.

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