Title: Watch Her Sleep Author: L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain Series: Charlotte Winters, #3 Published: March 2021, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 375 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: Nestled in the autumn leaves, her hair tangled in thick brambles, the girl looks like she could be sleeping amongst the wild roses. But the trail of red across her delicate throat means this is a slumber she will never wake from… When a…
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Title: The Good Sister Author: Sally Hepworth Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Published: April 2021, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 8 hours 18 minutes / 320 pages Source: Audio – ALC via Libro.fm/Macmillan Audio / Print – ARC Paperback via St. Martin’s Press Summary: Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister. There’s…
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Title: Heartbreak Bay Author: Rachel Caine Series: Stillhouse Lake, #5 Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith, Dan John Miller, Tovah Ott Published: March 2021, Brilliance Audio Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: They’re hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists. A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their…
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Title: The Echo Wife Author: Sarah Gailey Narrator: Xe Sands Published: February 2021, Macmillan Audio Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married. It took me so long to hate him. Martine…
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Title: The Four Winds Author: Kristin Hannah Narrator: Julia Whelan Published: February 2021, Macmillan Audio Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: From the number-one best-selling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out…
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Title: The Betrayal Author: Terry Lynn Thomas Series: Olivia Sinclair, #1 Published: October 2020 , HQ Digital Format: ARC E-galley, 234 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Attorney Olivia Sinclair is shocked when she receives an anonymous video showing her husband Richard sleeping with someone else. After years of handling other people’s divorces, she thought she could recognise a marriage in trouble. She angrily throws Richard out of the…
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Title: After Alice Fell Author: Kim Taylor Blakemore Published: March 2021, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source: Author Summary: Until she discovers the truth of her sister’s death, no one will rest in peace. New Hampshire, 1865. Marion Abbott is summoned to Brawders House asylum to collect the body of her sister, Alice. She’d been found dead after falling four stories from a steep-pitched roof. Officially:…
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Title: Our Last Echoes Author: Kate Alice Marshall Published: March 2021, Viking Books for Young Readers Format: ARC E-copy, 416 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Kara Thomas meets Twin Peaks in this supernatural thriller about one girl’s hunt for the truth about her mother’s disappearance.Sophia’s first memory is of drowning. She remembers the darkness of the water and the briny taste as it fills her throat. She remembers…
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I’m happy to be participating in the blog blitz for Are We There Yet by Kathleen West, which publishes today!!! Enjoy this spotlight and excerpt and let me know if you will be picking this one up! Title: Are We There Yet? Author: Kathleen West Published: March 2021, Berkley Books Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Summary: Among fake Instagram pages, long-buried family secrets, and the horrors of middle school, one…
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Title: The House on the Water Author: Margot Hunt Series: Audible Original Stories Narrator: Taylor Schilling Published: December 2020, Audible Originals Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From the author of Buried Deep comes brand new thriller about a summer vacation turned deadly, and a group of friends trapped together until they can determine who among them is capable of murder. Every year, Caroline Reed takes…
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Title: Sparks Like Stars Author: Nadia Hashimi Narrator: Mozhan Marno Published: March 2021, HarperAudio / William Morrow Length: 12 hours 2 minutes / 464 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print – Personal Copy Summary: An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the best-selling author of The Pearl…
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Title: Everything After Author: Jill Santopolo Published: March 2021, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The Light We Lost mixes with a touch of Daisy Jones and the Six in this novel of first love, passion, and the power of choice–and how we cannot escape the people we are meant to be. Two loves. Two choices. One chance to follow her dreams. Emily has come…
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Title: Killer Triggers Author: Joe Kenda Narrator: Joe Kenda Published: March 2021, Blackstone Publishing Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Source: Netgalley Summary: The most common triggers for homicide are fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, more rarely, sheer madness. This isn’t an exact science, of course. Any given murder can have multiple triggers. Sex and revenge seem to be common partners in crime. Rage, money, and revenge make for a…
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Title: The Lost Apothecary Author: Sarah Penner Narrator: Lorna Bennett, Lauren Anthony, Lauren Irwin Published: March 2021, Harlequin Audio / Park Row Books Length: 10 hours 18 minutes / 320 pages Source: Audio – via library / Print via Publisher/Publicist Summary: A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them—setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.Rule #1: The poison must…
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Title: Undiscovered Country: A Novel Inspired by the Lives of Eleanor Roosevelt & Lorena Hickok Author: Kelly O’Connor McNees Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon Published: Audio – April 2020, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Print – March 2018, Pegasus Books Length: 7 hours 20 minutes / 336 pages Source: Audio via library / Print via Publisher Summary: In October 1932, at the tail end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson. Thank you Hanover Square Press for inviting me to participate. Title: The Jigsaw Man Author: Nadine Matheson Published: March 2021, Hanover Square Press Format: ARC E-copy, 413 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… When body parts are found on the banks…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Her Dark Lies by J.T. Ellison. Thank you MIRA Books for inviting me to participate. Title: Her Dark Lies Author: J.T. Ellison Published: March 2021, MIRA Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Fast-paced and brilliantly unpredictable, J.T. Ellison’s breathtaking new novel invites you to a wedding none will forget—and some won’t survive.…
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Title: Too Good To Be True Author: Carola Lovering Published: March 2021, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH. Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips―she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family―she’s also battled crippling OCD…
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Title: The Light We Lost Author: Jill Santopolo Published: February 2018, G.P Putnam’s Sons Format: Paperback, 338 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “It’s the epic love story of 2017.”—Redbook “One Day meets Me Before You meets your weekender bag.”—The Skimm “Extraordinary.”—Emily Giffin He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last? Lucy is faced with a…
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Title: More Than Words Author: Jill Santopolo Published: February 2020, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a tender and moving new novel about a woman at a crossroads after the death of her father, and caught between the love of two men. “A smart, sexy, delicious novel.”–People Nina has always known…
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Title: We Begin at the End Author: Chris Whitaker Narrator: George Newbern Published: March 2021, Macmillan Audio Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Source: Netgalley Summary: With We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker has crafted an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating, with flashes of humor and hope throughout, it is ultimately an inspiring tale of how the human…
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Title: We Came Here to Shine Author: Susie Orman Schnall Narrator: Carly Robins, Dan Bittner, Lauren Fortgang, Susie Orman Schnall Published: June 2020, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 9 hours 43 minutes / 384 pages Source: Audio via the library / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: At the iconic 1939 New York World’s Fair, two ambitious young women—a down-on-her-luck actress and an aspiring journalist—form an…
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Title: The Restoration of Celia Fairchild Author: Marie Bostwick Published: March 2021, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: UplitReads Summary: “The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is wise, witty, and utterly compelling.” —Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Friends We Keep Evvie Drake Starts Over meets The Friday Night Knitting Club in this wise and witty novel about a fired advice columnist who discovers…
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Back again with my five most anticipated releases coming out this month. That’s not to say that I’m not excited about all the books that are being released this month – and there are so many books coming out this month! – but these are just the ones that really stand out in my mind for some reason – either because I have loved the author’s previous books or it’s…
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This month both flew by and felt long…which is crazy, I know. But that’s just how it is. Anyway, somehow, I managed to have a fantastic reading month, though it was rather heavy on the review books. If this month is anything to go by, this year is going to be another amazing year for books. I read some fantastic books and I know just by looking at what…
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Title: The Last Garden in England Author: Julia Kelly Narrator: Shiromi Arserio, Marisa Calin, Danielle Cohen, Katherine Littrell, Siobhan Waring Published: February 2021, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: From the author of the international best seller The Light over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are…
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Title: Who Is Maud Dixon Author: Alexandra Andrews Narrator: Therese Plummer Published: March 2021, Hachette Audio / Little Brown and Company Length: 9 hours 11 minutes / 336 pages Source: Audio – ALC via Libro.fm / Print – ARC via Goodreads Summary: For readers of The Silent Patient – a taut, twisty, character-driven suspense novel about a famous novelist and a small-town striver locked in a struggle for fortune…
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Title: Smoke Signal Author: Marie Benedict, Kate Quinn Series: Audible Original Stories Narrator: Nicola Barber, Saskia Maarleveld Published: February 2021, Audible Originals Length: 1 hour 10 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: Best-selling authors Marie Benedict (The Mystery of Mrs. Christie) and Kate Quinn (The Rose Code) join forces to tell the captivating story of how history’s most famous mystery writer crossed paths with one of Britain’s top secret code breakers…
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Title: Widowish Author: Melissa Gould Published: February 2021, Little A Format: Hardcover, 220 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Melissa Gould’s hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.When Melissa Gould’s husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel’s condition tragically worsened, she offered him the only thing she could: her love and devotion.…
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Title: The Half Sister Author: Sandi Jones Published: June 2020, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Goodreads Summary: Her arrival will ruin everything Kate and Lauren. Sisters who are always there for each other. But as they gather for their weekly Sunday lunch, a knock on the door changes everything. The new arrival, Jess, claims to be their half-sister, but that would mean the unthinkable . .…
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Title: Hadley & Grace Author: Suzanne Redfearn Narrator: Christina Traister, Sarah Naughton, Pete Simonelli Published: February 2021, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length: 10 hours 7 minutes / 347 pages Source: Audio via Brilliance Publishing / Print via Amazon Publishing Summary: The author of In an Instant delivers a heart-pounding and emotional roller-coaster ride of self-discovery in the tradition of Thelma and Louise.Needing to escape her abusive marriage,…
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Today, Tatiana de Rosnay’s latest novel, Flowers of Darkness, is being published and to celebrate, I’m helping the publisher get the word out. Title: Flowers of Darkness Author: Tatiana de Rosnay Published: February 2021, St. Martin’s Press Format: Hardcover, 256 pages Summary: From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah’s Key comes Tatiana de Rosnay’s Flowers of Darkness, a riveting and emotionally intense novel, set in a near future Paris,…
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Title: An Eye for an Eye Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Kate Young, #1 Narrator: Henrietta Meire Published: February 2021, Brilliance Audio Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: A killer running rings around the police. A detective spiralling out of control. DI Kate Young is on leave. She’s the force’s best detective, but her bosses know she’s under pressure, on medication and overcoming trauma. So after her bad…
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Title: The Berlin Girl Author: Mandy Robotham Narrator: Kristin Atherton Published: Audio – October 2020 Avon / Print – December 2020 Avon Length: 13 hours 17 minutes Source: Audio – via Library / Print via Publisher Summary: From the bestselling author of The German Midwife comes the heart-wrenching story of a country on the brink of war, a woman who puts herself in the line of fire, and a…
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Title: The Nature of Fragile Things Author: Susan Meissner Published: February 2021, Berkley Books Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New…
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Title: The Owl Always Hunts at Night Author: Samuel Bjork Series: Holger Munch & Mia Kruger, #2 Published: June 2017, Penguin Group Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjork s internationally bestselling I’m Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls tense and smartly constructed. When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on…
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Title: The Secret Stealers Author: Jane Healey Published: April 2021, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC E-copy, 443 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A female American spy in Nazi-occupied France finds purpose behind enemy lines in a novel of unparalleled danger, love, and daring by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Beantown Girls. Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at an all-girls school in…
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Title: Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology Author: edited by Zibby Owens Published: February 2021, Skyhorse Format: ARC Paperback, 312 pages Source: Publicist Summary: JOIN AWARD-WINNING PODCASTER ZIBBY OWENS OF MOMS DON’T HAVE TIME TO READ BOOKS ON A JOURNEY FILLED WITH FOOD, EXERCISE, SEX, BOOKS, AND MORE. It’s impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over…
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Title: Do No Harm Author: Christina McDonald Published: February 2021, Gallery Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publicist Summary: Emma loves her life. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loyal and loving police detective—and has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. But everything comes crashing down when her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Determined…
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Title: Black Coral Author: Andrew Mayne Series: Underwater Investigation Unit, #2 Published: February 2021, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher via MB Communications Summary: For a police diver in Florida, solving a cold-case mystery brings a serial killer out of hiding in a deep, dark thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist. Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit have discovered…
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Title: Blink of an Eye Author: Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen Series: Kendra Michaels, #8 Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Published: February 2021, Hachette Audio / Grand Central Publishing Length: 8 hours 12 minutes / 343 pages Source: Audio – ALC via Libro.fm / Print – Hardcover via Publisher Summary: A #1 New York Times bestselling author and an Edgar Award winner team up to deliver this gripping new novel featuring…
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Title: A Vineyard Valentine Author: Nina Bocci Narrator: Amanda Ronconi Published: February 2021, Audible Originals Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Source: Audible Summary: An unforgettable night of romance awaits in this funny, charming novella by USA Today best-selling author Nina Bocci! The annual Valentine’s Day singles soiree is always a big money-maker for Eloisa Giordono’s winery. What could be more romantic than looking for love at a quaint family vineyard…
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Title: Finlay Donovan is Killing It Author: Elle Cosimano Series: Finlay Donovan, #1 Published: February 2021, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Finlay Donovan is killing it . . . except, she’s really not. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling…
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Title: The Shadow Box Author: Luanne Rice Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella, Jim Frangione Published: February 2021, Brilliance Audio / Thomas & Mercer Length: 10 hours 36 minutes / 368 pages Source: Audio – via Brilliance Publishing / Print via Amazon Publishing Summary: The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth—and the lengths someone…
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Title: Watch Over Me Author: Nina LaCour Published: September 2020, Dutton Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover, 272 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Nina LaCour delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the Printz Award-winning We Are Okay. Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that’s why she said yes to the opportunity: living in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog…
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Title: Magpie Lane Author: Lucy Atkins Published: February 2021, Mobius Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master’s Lodging – an eerie and ancient house – a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family…
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Title: Masque of Honor Author: Sharon Virts Published: February 2021, Rosetta Books Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Summary: In this coming-of-age tale set in early 19th century America, two sons of the Virginia aristocracy risk it all to defend their dreams and determine their own destinies. General Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty are brothers-in-law, second cousins and descendants of founding father George Mason IV. Ambitious and headstrong, together…
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Title: The Paris Library Author: Janet Skeslien Charles Published: February 2021, Atria Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together, perfect for fans of The Lilac Girls and The Paris Wife. Paris,…
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Title: A Hundred Suns Author: Karin Tanabe Narrator: Angela Dawe, Emily Ellet Published: April 2020, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 13 hours 39 minutes / 400 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print via Publisher Summary: An evocative historical novel set in 1930’s Indochine, about the American wife of a Michelin heir who journeys to the French colony in the name of family fortune, and the glamorous, tumultuous…
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Title: The Princess Spy Author: Larry Loftis Published: February 2021, Atria Books Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The international bestselling author of the “exciting, suspenseful, inspirational” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Code Name: Lise weaves another exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring spies in World War II before marrying into European…
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