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  The Fox's Walk - A Novel

  Annabel Davis-Goff

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  A New York Times Notable Book. “[An] engaging and keenly particular story of a watchful little girl caught at a fateful historical crossroads.” —The Seattle Times 
   
  During the First World War, ten-year-old Alice Moore is left in the care of her autocratic grandmother at Ballydavid, a lovely country house in County Waterford. Living in a rigid, old-fashioned household where propriety is all, Alice is forced to piece together her world—a world on the brink of revolution—from overheard conversations, servants’ gossip, and her own keen observations. She soon realizes that her family’s privilege comes at a great cost to others—among them a psychic countess down on her luck, a Roman Catholic boy whom Alice hero-worships, and an admired governess, as well as most of her neighbors. After the Easter Rising, when blood is spilled close to home and loyalties are divided, tensions within Ireland and Ballydavid mount. Alice is forced to choose between her heritage of privilege and her growing moral and political conscience. 
   
  “Has the same alert phrasing, wry humor, and exquisite detail as its predecessors.” —The Washington Post Book World 
   
  “A rich, impressionistic account, in an old-fashioned style, of a dying world in the last hours before sunset.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
   
  “[A] piercingly affecting theme . . . Davis-Goff brilliantly chronicles the vanished world of the Anglo-Irish gentry.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “An elegiac novel . . . The interest lies in the sharply observed characters and in the sensitive child’s-eye view of a way of life that was soon lost.” —Booklist

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  Finding utopia

  Linda Weber

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  "Finding Utopia" is a love story inspired by remarkable true events. Both gritty and tender this thriller is woven with a dark thread of mystery. Maizelle Clarke, the town doctor's daughter, elopes with Will Jones, an auto mechanic, against her father's wishes. He disowns her and cuts her off from her siblings and the family she loves. Embraced by her husband's mother, she learns to be a wife and mother at the older woman's elbow.  
  The young couple create an idyllic life for themselves and their growing family until an unspeakable tragedy strikes, throwing the mother of three into a deep depression that threatens her marriage, her family, and all she holds dear. As she struggles to climb out of the darkness, another baby is born, giving her hope, a reason to live, and the resilience to repair her fractured relationships. As she takes her first tentative steps forward, a misguided love brings a night of terror to Utopia and a dark secret threatens the family and the community's very existence. 
  A story of deep love, enduring friendship, loss, and redemption, FINDING UTOPIA is a tender, gritty story that defines what it means to be human, as it carries readers to a surprising and emotional climax. 
  Described by readers as "gripping and powerful with unfettered emotion, this book blew my mind and broke my heart. The story of Will and Maizelle will be with me for a long, long, time."

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  The Scandalous Suffragette

  Eliza Redgold

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  An English heiress to a chocolate fortune fights for freedom and for love in this historical romance. 
   
  When chocolate heiress Violet Coombes is caught hanging her suffragette banner in a most shocking place, Adam Beaufort, Esquire, proposes a marriage of convenience! His good name will avert scandal for her family, and her money will save the estate Adam’s father gambled away. Violet accepts, but she’s determined nothing will distract her from the Cause—including her oh-so-tempting husband!

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  War and Peace Book 15: 1812-1813

  Leo Tolstoy

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  War and Peace (Russian: ????? ? ???, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: ????? ? ????, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.  
  War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy's time did not consider it as such. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. (Summary by Wikipedia)  
  Note: The novel is split up in 15 books and two epilogues. This is the recording of book fifteen, which covers events in the year 1812-1813. The recording of the next book is in progress. The project thread can be found here. The recording of book fourteen can be found here.

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  From Boss to Bridegroom

  Karen Kirst

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  A suspected thief steals a merchant’s heart in this charming Christian historical romance from the author of Married by Christmas. 
   
  Being tied up and delivered to the sheriff was not how Nicole O’Malley expected to meet her new boss. Quinn Darling had the audacity to mistake her for a burglar! Now she’s counting the days until she can leave small-town life behind to open her own boutique. But as long as she’s helping two runaways escape their vindictive stepdad, she can’t leave town. 
   
  Quinn’s determined to triumph in his first business venture without the support of his wealthy family. He can’t succeed without assistant Nicole, a beauty as prickly as she is captivating. As Quinn adjusts to the tight-knit community, he’s soon set on another goal: breaking through Nicole’s reserve to capture the love hidden in her heart. 
   
  Smoky Mountain Matches: Dreams of home and family come true in the Smoky Mountains.

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  A Boy in Hiding

  Stan Rubens

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  A poignant, true-survival story of a young boy who hid for years underground in Holland during World War II. A Boy In Hiding sheds a light on the difficult road that laid ahead for Anne Frank – had she survived. Now, sixty years later, Rubens gives a voice to the young boy, who – despite the hard time and difficulties he encountered, never lost his positive view on life.

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