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by Sharon Kay Penman - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Richard I has been known mainly as an absentee king, leaving England to rot while he was off gallivanting in the Holy Land. This novel --- a stirring brew of 12th-century politics, religion and romance --- tells a more intriguing story.

by Adrienne Sharp - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Exiled in Paris, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska, once the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar’s Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, now reflects on her tumultuous life with striking clarity.

by Denise Mina - Fiction, Mystery

When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow is called in to investigate the savage killing of a young woman, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder.

by Monica Ali - Fiction

As what-if novels go, this sensitive thriller --- a highly marketable offering from a Booker Prize-shortlisted author --- is a bombshell...a blonde bombshell. It features a royal personage with a strong resemblance to Diana, Princess of Wales, who fakes her own death and takes up ordinary life in small-town America.

by Kate White - Fiction, Thriller

A secret circle of really mean girls --- the dark side of female empowerment --- becomes the nemesis of a gutsy journalist heroine in this intriguing thriller from the bestselling author of HUSH and the Bailey Weggins mystery series.

by Susan Schneider - Fiction

Four talented women, one glossy wedding magazine. Life should be as perfect as a bridal catwalk. But reality is unveiled as these women search for the path to their own happily-ever-afters.

by J. Courtney Sullivan - Fiction

Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction from the author of the bestselling debut novel COMMENCEMENT.