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"When her best friend Elizabeth goes missing, Maud is convinced something terrible has happened. But her search to find Elizabeth unearths an altogether darker unsolved mystery: her sister's disappearance, long buried in the recesses of her memory. Can Maud discover the fate of both missing women before her dementia erases the clues and the answers are lost to her forever?"--container.
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In this darkly riveting debut novel—a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging—an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory—and her grip on everyday...
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"FOR DOCK LOVERS AND DAYDREAMERS"A tender, funny, heartbreaking new summer novel set in Muskoka, Canada's Hamptons-for lovers of Elin Hilderbrand, Carly Fortune and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeny.One wealthy family. One beautiful cottage. Many summers of secrets. More than a decade after tragedy strikes, Colin Montgomery returns to Wynward Cottage to spend one last summer with the marvelous Miss Elizabeth. As a child, he was saved by the Wynward family. Ultimately...
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In a battle of wills between Lady Catherine and Mrs. Bennet, only one will come out alive…
When a devastating secret is revealed, Elizabeth Bennet's future happiness is pitted against the loyalty of the man she loves.
Fitzwilliam Darcy is more determined than ever to win Elizabeth's love-no matter what obstacles their families place between them.
But then a killer strikes a fatal blow in the middle of a military parade.
With a murderer on the loose...
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The true story of the eighteenth-century English maidservant at the center of a fascinating criminal mystery. On New Year's Day, 1753, Elizabeth Canning disappeared. An eighteen-year-old girl, she was unremarkable in every respect, from her appearance to her disposition, but she was about to become the most famous person in London. When she reappeared one month later, starving and ill, she claimed she had been abducted and held captive by a woman...
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A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today's beauty industry
They were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances–Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Kraków, Poland, Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were bitter rivals in New York, the rulers of dueling international beauty empires that would forever change the way women thought about cosmetics, salons, and wrinkles....
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As the Civil War ground on, an underground Unionist movement flourished in the heart of the Confederacy, led by an unlikely leader. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy and well-connected member of Richmond's elite, risked everything to help save the Union, skillfully directing this clandestine group and becoming General Ulysses S. Grant's spy in Richmond. Surrounded by a cadre of "slaves" secretly freed and working with her at the risk of their lives, and...
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What would Little Women be without the charms of the March family's cozy New England home? Or Wuthering Heights without the ghost-infested Wuthering Heights? Getting lost in the setting of a good book can be half the pleasure of reading, and Decorating a Room of One's Own brings literary backdrops to the foreground in this wryly-affectionate satire of interior design reporting. English professor and humorist Susan Harlan spoofs decorating culture...
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