The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer (debut)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Length: 384 pages
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Lee Miller found herself adrift in 1929 Paris, when a chance meeting with artist/photographer Man Ray set her life on a whole new trajectory….

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Eagle & Crane by Suzanne Rindell
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Length: 448 pages
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Rivals Louis Thorn and Harry Yamada make up the daredevil flying act, Eagle & Crane, until life grounds them and Harry is sent to a Japanese internment camp, leaving Louis behind to piece together how Harry’s body came to be found in a crashed plane….

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The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Length: 256 pages
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Annie, left widowed and pregnant, finds herself taken under the wing of a group of Catholic nuns, determined that Annie and her child will have lives well lived….

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“Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter.  Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm’s inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.”…

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