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  Bessie - A Novel

  Linda Kass

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  Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, who, in 1945 at age twenty-one, remarkably rises to become one of the most famous women in America. This intimate fictional portrait reveals the transformation of the nearly six-foot-tall, self-deprecating yet talented preteen into an exemplar of beauty, a peripheral quality in her world, where success is measured by intellectual attainment. Yet it is the focus on her beauty, and the secular world of pageantry, that she must choose to escape her roots and fulfill her fierce desire to achieve and become someone for whom great things happen. 
   
   
   
  Bessie is a tender study of a bold young woman living at a precarious moment in our cultural history as she searches for love and acceptance, eager to make her mark on the world.

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  The Shadow of Memory

  Connie Berry

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  As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century painting and verify that its provenance is the Dutch master Jan Van Eyck. But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium housed much more than priceless art.
  
  Kate is surprised to learn that Will had been the first boyfriend of her friend Vivian Bunn, who hasn’t seen him in fifty-eight years. At a seaside holiday camp over sixty years ago, Will, Vivian, and three other teens broke into an abandoned house where a doctor and his wife had died under bizarre circumstances two years earlier. Now, when a second member of the childhood gang dies unexpectedly—and then a third—it becomes clear that the teens had discovered more in the house than they had realized.
  
  Had Will returned to warn his old love? When Kate makes a shocking connection between a sixty-year-old murder and the long-buried secrets of the sanatorium, she suddenly understands that time is running out for Vivian—and anyone connected to her.

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  The Widow and the Professor

  Donna K. Weaver

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  Escape into the page-turning world of two complex people whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. 
  With her only child off to Harvard, recent widow Francie Davis is finally going to college. But when a grumpy and undeniably attractive new boss and an unexpected visitor enter the picture, she realizes life still has a few surprises in store for her. 
  Meanwhile, Professor Alex Diederik's life is spiraling out of control. His bitter ex-wife is trying to poison his relationship with their daughter, and his attractive new administrative assistant is a distraction at work. As he tries to navigate the complexities of his personal life, he finds himself drawn to Francie in ways he never thought possible. 
  But when secrets are revealed and tensions mount, their budding romance—and their lives—are at stake. 
  You won't be able to put down this gripping novel of love, loss, and the unexpected twists that life can throw our way. 
  Books in the Safe Harbors SeriesA Change of Plans (#1)Torn Canvas (#2)Swing Vote (#3)Mistletoe Rescue (3.5)The Widow and the Professor (#4)Whispers of Forever (#5) 
  ***The Widow and the Professor began its life as a novella, Second Chances 101. It is how double it's original size and includes a suspense subplot and more details than the original novella had. It still has characters who appear in three series: Ripple Effect Romance Novellas, Safe Harbors, and Billionaires of REKD***

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  Jesse Reeves - The White Event -...

  John J. Law

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  Jessie Reeves, grandson of the Legendary Deputy U.S. Marshal doesn't feel comfortable following in the shadow of his grandfather, but when the Wildman preys on his friends, Jesse steps up and takes care of business the way his grandfather would have. 
  Travel along with young Reeves as he encounters adventure after adventure.

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  Bluebell Wood: A chilling...

  David Blake

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  A CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER! 
  A hanging man's body found by an uncontrollable dog, a murdered historian with an unpublished book, and a mysterious cottage, hiding in the shadows of Bluebell Wood. 
   
  Set within the mysterious beauty of the Norfolk Broads, this fast-paced British detective series is a dark cozy Norfolk murder mystery with a slice of humour and a touch of romance, one that will have you guessing until the very end, when the last shocking twist is finally revealed. 
   
  Bluebell Wood is a totally addictive gripping crime thriller, the ninth in a chilling series of serial killer books, ones which will rapidly convert followers of L J Ross, Faith Martin, Joy Ellis, Damien Boyd, J M Dalgliesh, and Elly Griffiths into David Blake devotees.

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  Operation Chariot

  Duncan Harding

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  Another thrilling novel of the war at sea from the author of Tug of War and Flotilla Attack. 
   
   
   
  Already two German battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, had slipped through the English Channel under the bows of the British Fleet. Now, the Third Reich's largest and most deadly warship, the Tirpitz, had only one possible destination on Europe's Atlantic coast: the formidable dry dock of St Nazaire. 
   
   
   
  HMS Rose, aged and jinxed destroyer, was detailed to join the daring mission to destroy the entire dry dock of St Nazaire. She found herself not, as planned, backing up Operation Chariot as a troop ship, but fighting alone in the icy, fogbound seas—shot to hell and 300 miles between her and home . . .

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