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Inventing Victoria

In a searing historical novel, Tonya Bolden illuminates post-Reconstruction America in an intimate portrait of a determined young woman who dares to seize the opportunity of a lifetime.As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie's dreams are very much at odds with her reality. Ashamed of her beginnings, but unwilling to accept the path currently available to her, Essie is trapped between the life she has and the life she wants.Until she meets a lady named Dorcas Vashon, the richest and most cultured black woman she's ever encountered. When Dorcas makes Essie an offer she can't refuse, she becomes Victoria. Transformed by a fine wardrobe, a classic education, and the rules of etiquette, Victoria is soon welcomed in the upper echelons of black society in Washington, D. C. But when the life she desires is finally within her grasp, Victoria must decide how much of herself she is truly willing to surrender.
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Murder at Mondial Castle

Adelia's broken free of the restraints that Victorian society puts on a woman. By using her wit, unconventional intelligence and good humour, she's risen to marry an earl who dotes on her; she's raised and married off seven beautiful daughters; what more is there for her now?

What, indeed. Adelia's looking for a new adventure. She's not ready for her twilight years of slumber just yet…

Then her daughter's friend is found brutally murdered in the grounds of Mondial Castle – in the company of a man who is not her husband. That man is the Marquis of Mondial but he's also injured and obviously above suspicion. Yet his subsequent peculiar behaviour soon sets fashionable tongues wagging…

Adelia negotiates the gossips of the drawing room while her husband Theodore wrestles with the other gentlemen and their foibles.

Adelia and Theodore are shocked as they peel back layers of deadly secrets in the household of the castle but the truth at the heart of it threatens their own daughter's marriage … and their whole family's place in society.

Unmasking the murderer is impossible alone but working as a team, they are unique.

And unstoppable.

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All the Lives We Ever Lived

A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it. Following her father's death, Katharine Smyth turned to her favorite novel, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, as a way of making sense of her bereavement. Written out of a lifelong admiration for Woolf and her work, Katharine's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's Cornish coasts and Bloomsbury squares, addressing universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. But All the Lives We Ever Lived, which braids memoir, biography, and literary criticism, is also an intimate reading of one woman's talismanic text. Through her thoughtful engagement with To the Lighthouse, and her adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Katharine guides the reader toward a deeper understanding of Woolf's most demanding and rewarding novel—and crafts an elegant reminder of literature's ability to clarify...
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Surgeon Prince, Cinderella Bride

A year-long contract......to marry a stranger!In this Cinderellas to Royal Brides story, Dr. Sara Greer's shocked to find Crown Prince Farhan on her doorstep with life-changing news—she's the long-lost heir to the throne of Kalyana! Farhan needs to preserve his title and Sara wants to connect with her newfound heritage, so agreeing to his convenient proposal seems like the perfect solution! Until their inconvenient chemistry has her reconsidering their hands-off agreement...Cinderellas to Royal Brides duetBook 1 — Surgeon Prince, Cinderella BrideBook 2 — Royal Doc's Secret Heir"This is a beautifully written story filled with all of the feels for a wonderful romance...this one is a real page turner, one that I highly recommend. I really enjoyed this story, it is so very moving as well as being a sensual journey to a HEA...."— Goodreads on The Surgeon's One Night to Forever "The Nurse's...
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Internment

Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future-United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment camp for Muslim-American citizens with her parents.With the help of newly-made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp's Director and his guards.Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.
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Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones

"[T]his novel is extraordinary . . . It is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, mixed with H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, set in the creepiest screwed-up town since 'Salem's Lot . . . [A] major achievement." — Adam-Troy Castro, Sci Fi magazine Swine Hill was full of the dead. Their ghosts were thickest near the abandoned downtown, where so many of the town's hopes had died generation by generation. They lingered in the places that mattered to them, and people avoided those streets, locked those doors, stopped going into those rooms . . . They could hurt you. Worse, they could change you. Jane is haunted. Since she was a child, she has carried a ghost girl that feeds on the secrets and fears of everyone around her, whispering to Jane what they are thinking and feeling, even when she doesn't want to know. Henry, Jane's brother, is ridden by a genius ghost that forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. Their mother is...
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The Firefighter's Vow

To love and protect......sometimes means letting goFire chief Tony Ruggles is stunned that Laura Wheeler wants to become a Cape Pursuit volunteer firefighter. Laura was devastated when her brother died heroically battling a forest fire, but this is her chance to take back control of her life—if Tony can put his feelings aside. How can he train her to risk her life when he wants to protect her at all costs?
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