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"At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies, including young Wong Liu Tsong. The daughter of Chinese immigrants who own a laundry, Wong Liu and her older sister Lew Ying (Lulu) are taunted and bullied for their Chinese heritage. But while Lulu diligently obeys her parents and learns to speak Chinese, Wong Liu sneaks away to the local nickelodeons, buying a ticket with her lunch money and tips saved from laundry deliveries....
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When the residents of St Kilda ask to be evacuated from their remote island home in the summer of 1930, it's in search of a better life on the mainland rather than the scratch existence on their mountain in the sea. For 18-year-old Effie Gillies, it's a bittersweet departure. She's the best young climber on the island, as skilled and brave as any of the men. But it is Effie's expansive knowledge of local bird life that leads her to taking up a position...
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"It is 1912, and for the last seventy years magic has all but disappeared from the world. Yet magic is all Biddy has ever known. Orphaned as a baby, Biddy grew up on Hy-Brasil, a legendary island off the coast of Ireland hidden by magic and glimpsed by rare travelers who return with stories of wild black rabbits and a lone magician in a castle. To Biddy, the island is her home, a place of ancient trees and sea-salt air and mysteries, and the magician,...
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Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler's Nazis has put them all in grave danger. When the circus is forced to shut down and Irene's father is taken away, Irene and her mother must go into hiding with another circus. Every day is...
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A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous 1960s in this captivating novel inspired by shockingly true events. Perfect for readers of Emma Clines 'The Girls' and Ami McKays 'The Virgin Cure'. Leslie Howard divides her time between Vancouver and Penticton, BC. From the author of 'The Brideship Wife'.
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From the legendary winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film ... and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II. Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old...
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A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations. 'The Royal Librarian' is a dual narrative novel following one woman in 1940 working as a librarian at Windsor Castle, secretly there to protect the two princesses - one of whom will become queen - and also her great grand-niece, decades later, who discovers a mystery book filled with secrets.
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Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success--his first black-tie do. Its the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies Night Dinner Dance, and William is taking Gloria in her sequined evening gown. He can barely believe his luck. But as the guests sip their drinks and smoke their post-dinner cigarettes a telegram delivers news of a tragedy. An event so terrible it will shake the nation. It is October 1966 and a landslide...
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1901. When The Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour his duty to the family. With their world upended, the Tallants and their servants struggle...
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In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of the world. Extensively researched and told from a multitude of perspectives and voices, 'The Shadow of War' brings to life the many threads that lead to the building crisis between...
17) The Paris Novel
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When her mother dies, Stella is given a one-way plane ticket and a note reading Go to Paris. Stella is not an adventurous woman, so alone in a foreign city, she lives cautiously and frugally. Then she stumbles across a Dior dress and for the first time in her life, Stella does something impulsive - she buys the dress and together they embark on an adventure. And when Stella falls in love with an art collector who introduces her to the whos who of...
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In 'The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club', a young British woman's life is forever changed in the summer after WWI, when she visits a seaside town, befriends a group of thoroughly modern women, and realizes that the future might offer more possibilities than she'd ever dared to imagine. From the author of 'The Summer Before the War'.
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From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St. Helier, Jersey is known as the land of milk and honey. But for best friends Bea Rose, the local postwoman, and Grace Le Motte, who works in the island's only library, it becomes the frontline to everyday resistance when their island is occupied by German forces in 1940. Inspired by true events, 'The Wartime Book Club' is a story of bravery and resistance, full of...
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