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  The Mysterious Lord Marlowe

  Anne Herries

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  Sparks fly between a strong-willed young lady and a mischievous English lord following a slight kidnapping in this Regency romance. 
   
  When Miss Jane Lanchester is mistakenly abducted, her captors soon realize they have underestimated this feisty young woman. Brave Jane makes a daring break, only to be assisted by one of her kidnappers—the mysterious and well-bred George who offers her his exclusive protection.  
   
  Fleeing for their lives, Jane and Lord George Marlowe form a deep attachment! Jane can’t bear the thought of losing him once the danger is past. All she can hope is that George turns her from willing captive to his willing wife . . .

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  !Click Song - A Novel

  John A. Williams

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  In this fiercely authentic tale from the author of The Man Who Cried I Am, a gifted novelist confronts the powerfully entrenched, profit-motivated forces of corporate racism When his military service ends at the close of World War II—a period that will continue to haunt him throughout his life—Cato Douglass resolves to pursue a writing career and follows his dream to New York City.   Soon, his first novel is published, and it appears his dream has been fulfilled, enabling him to travel the world, fall in love, marry, and start a family. But despite possessing a talent that shines brighter than that of many of his literary contemporaries, Cato discovers that he is trapped within a racist system. Only a handful of black writers receive the support of white editors and critics, and because Cato’s work pushes the boundaries set by the publishing industry, he is doomed to a life of obscurity.   The Chicago Sun-Times proclaimed !Click Song “a major novel by one of America’s finest living writers.” Winner of the 1983 American Book Award, John A. Williams’s enthralling chronicle of a writer’s lifelong struggle to matter is a blistering tale of art, industry, family, and race.  

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  Gallows Thief

  Bernard Cornwell

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  Rider Sandman, having fought Napoleon in the French wars, expected to lead the life of an English country gentleman, but now, two years after Waterloo, his family is impoverished, his name is disgraced and he has been forced to relinquish the woman he loves from her obligation to marry him. Desperate to earn money he accepts the job of being the government's Investigator; an official who discovers whether petitions for mercy sent by condemned criminals should be granted. His first case concerns a portrait painter who is due to hang for murder in a week's time and the government makes it clear that they want the verdict confirmed. 
  But Rider Sandman, whose qualifications for the post are nonexistent, discovers that the painter is almost certainly innocent and, as he peels back the layers of a corrupt penal system, he finds himself pitted against some of the wealthiest and most ruthless men in Regency England who want to keep the truth hidden.

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  The Last Beekeeper

  Siya Turabi

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  ‘Reminds me of Khaled Hosseini, poignant and heartwarming… Simply a beautiful story that had me reading until 3:30 in the morning’ Sarah, NetGalley 
  ‘I am a friend of the bees. Like you.’ 
  ‘So, you have been waiting for me?’ 
  ‘The forest has been waiting for you.’ 
  Pakistan, 1974: The secret-wreathed trees of Harikaya have always called to Hassan. He knows if he doesn’t find the last beekeeper and salvage a precious jar of his mythical black honey before the floods come, his mother will lose her sight. 
  But then he wins a scholarship to study with the state governor in Karachi amidst a brewing storm of political turmoil and simmering espionage. 
  His entire world is turned upside down when he meets Maryam, the governor’s niece visiting from London. 
  All the while the fate of his mother and his promise to the bees calls him back to the forest, and so he must decide: Maryam or the beekeeper, England or Pakistan, his head or his heart. 
  One of the most exciting debuts of 2021, this is a lyrical historical novel of family, friendship, and self-discovery exploring the power of choice in a changing world and love in communion with nature. Perfect for fans of Christy Lefteri, Yann Martel, and Monique Roffey.Praise for The Last Beekeeper: 
  ‘An absolutely beautifully written novel’ Eszter, NetGalley 
  ‘Magnificent and magical’ Kimberly, NetGalley 
  ‘I thoroughly enjoyed this book and really appreciate the representation it gives my community’ Resham, NetGalley 
  ‘Magnificent! Perfect for a long summer’s day spent in a hammock’ Literary Redhead, NetGalley 
  ‘A beautiful story of finding hope’ Zoe, NetGalley 
  ‘This is Siya Turabi’s debut novel… I fell in love with her lyrical writing, her vivid descriptions and her tale of family and friendship as well as her love of nature and the expression of its magic’ Norma, NetGalley 
  ‘The story has a lot of magical elements and sort of a fairy tale feeling at times as poetry and the bees envelop Hassan’ Sara, NetGalley

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  The Devil's Queen - A Novel of...

  Jeanne Kalogridis

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  Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history: blamed for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in which hundreds of innocents died. What motivated this Renaissance woman who was born of Florence's most powerful family, and one day came to rule France? In her latest historical fiction bestseller, Jeanne Kalogridis tells the story of Catherine, a tender young girl, destined to be a pawn in Machiavellian games. Left a fabulously rich heiress, imprisoned and threatened by her family's enemies, she was finally married off to a handsome prince of France. Overshadowed by her husband's mistress, the conniving Diane de Poitiers, and now consort to a King, Catherine resorted to sorcery to win his love, enhance her fertility and foil her enemies. Against the lavish and decadent backdrop of the French court, and Catherine's visions induced by the black arts, Kalogoris reveals the great love and desire Catherine bore for her husband Henry, and her stark determination to keep her sons on the throne.

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  Ghost: A Dream of Murder

  David Kudler

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  Mochizuki Chiyome wants someone deadAnd someone wants to serve herAt a banquet to celebrate a new alliance, Chiyome contemplates murder, and discovers a new servant.This is the third of six Kunoichi Companion Tales, prequel stories to David Kudler’s historical novel Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale.White Robes — Mired in her own grief, Lady Mochizuki Chiyome encounters two young women who give her a whole new, much more interesting opportunitySilk & Service — A young Takeda warrior meets a servant who is much more than she seems (coming soon!)Ghost — At a banquet to celebrate a new alliance, Chiyome contemplates murder, and discovers a new servantShining Boy — Plucked off of the streets of the capital, an orphan girl tries to figure out what story she's wandered intoBlade — Toumi doesn't want anyone messing with her businessLittle Brother — Returning to the monastery turns out to be as hard as leaving it wasExtract:The Way of the Warrior, Chiyome knew, teaches that one must fight without anger and kill without hatred. That a warrior must act always out of duty and never out of personal need. She knew this because her mother had taught her so. She knew it because her father and her husband had died acting so. She knew it because because her annoying servants Mieko and Kuniko always seemed to act so.And yet, staring across the sh?gun’s banquet hall, all that Mochizuki Chiyome could think was that she hated Uesugi Kenshin; that she wanted to cut off the far-too-pretty lord’s nose, wanted to strangle him, wanted to rip out his heart.She considered it a great act of restraint to have remained sitting through the long feast commemorating the new alliance.Lord Uesugi leered at her, and her restraint shattered.“Mieko?”“My lady?”Chiyome leaned closer to the young woman who looked like nothing so much as a perfectly sweet companion for a perfectly harmless old lady. “If I were to ask you to kill that insufferable fop Uesugi, could you do it?”(Teen assassin, historical fiction, love in a time of war, Japan)

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