Emmett Watson, eighteen, is brought home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work camp where he had recently served fifteen months for involuntary homicide in June 1954. Emmett's aim is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and fly to California where they may start their lives over, with his mother long gone, his father lately deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank. When the warden drives away, Emmett learns that two work farm pals have secreted themselves in the warden's trunk.

They have devised an entirely different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a tragic voyage in the opposite direction—to New York City. Towles' third novel, which spans only 10 days and is recounted from several points of view, will delight admirers of his multi-layered literary style while introducing readers to a slew of fresh and brilliantly conceived locales, characters, and ideas.

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Author: Amor Towles
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/57109107-the-lincoln-highway

1940: As England prepares to battle the Nazis, three very different women heed the call to the enigmatic rural estate Bletchley Park, where Britain's brightest minds train to break German military codes. Osla, the vivacious debutante, has it all—beauty, fortune, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she is determined to show herself as more than a social girl, and uses her fluent German as a translator of intercepted enemy secrets.

Mab, the haughty self-made product of east-end London poverty, operates the famed codebreaking machines while concealing ancient scars and looking for a socially suitable marriage. Both Osla and Mab see potential in local village spinster Beth, whose timidity hides a tremendous ability with riddles, and Beth soon spread her wings as one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. War, grief, and the unbearable burden of secret, however, will rip the three apart.

1947: As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip erupts in post-war Britain, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mystery encrypted letter, the key to which is hidden in the long-ago treachery that shattered their friendship and sent one of them to an institution. A mystery traitor has resurfaced from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and Osla, Mab, and Beth must rebuild their old partnership in order to break one final code together.

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Author: Kate Quinn
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/53914938-the-rose-code

From New York Times, bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray come a remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation. Belle da Costa Greene, in her twenties, is employed by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly constructed Pierpont Morgan Library.

As she contributes to the creation of a world-class collection, Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most influential women in the art and book industry, recognized for her perfect taste and clever negotiation for crucial pieces. But Belle has a secret that she must keep hidden at all costs. She was born Belle Marion Greener, not Belle da Costa Greene. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black Harvard graduate and a well-known equality advocate. Belle's skin is dark because she is African American, not because of her purported Portuguese lineage, which allows her to pass as white.

The Personal Librarian tells the story of an outstanding lady known for her brilliance, flair, and humor, and explores the lengths she must go to safeguard her family and legacy while preserving her carefully built white persona in a racist society.

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Author: Marie Benedict
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/55333938-the-personal-librarian

This debut Southern book, set in 1920s Mississippi, weaves a beautiful and terrible narrative of two young girls formed in an unexpected relationship via murder—ideal for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don't Rise. Ada vowed to herself that she would never return to the Trace, to her hard existence on the marsh, or to her stern father. Except now, after fleeing to Baton Rouge and temporarily experiencing a different way of life, she has nowhere to go but back home. And she is aware that there will be a cost with her father.

Matilda is a sharecropper's daughter from the other side of the Trace. It's a constant fight for her to defend her family from the whims and demands of some particularly nasty neighbors. She devises a plan to travel north, pack up the secrets she's kept about her life in the South and display them for everyone to see in Ohio. As the two girls are lured deeper into a deadly world of bootleggers and moral depravity, they must confront the complexity of their precarious friendship as well as a hidden past that connects them in ways that might cost them their lives.

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Author: Kelly Mustian
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/54762315-the-girls-in-the-stilt-house

Mala, convict 19880, realized this the instant she stepped off the cattle train into hell. As an SS translator, she utilizes her position to save as many lives as she can, sneaking crumbs of bread to people in need. Inmate 531, Edward, is a camp veteran and a political prisoner. Though he appears to be ordinary, with a shaven head and striped suit, he is a member of the underground Resistance. And he has a plan to get out.

They are imprisoned for no other reason than that they exist. When they meet, the dark shadow of Auschwitz is illuminated by a ray of hope. Edward persuades Mala that the unthinkable is doable. They will exit this death camp despite being ringed by electric wire, machine guns atop countless watchtowers, and searchlights strewn everywhere. They make a pact that they would either escape together or die together. What follows is one of history's greatest love stories.

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Author: Ellie Midwood
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/56131831-the-girl-who-escaped-from-auschwitz

1939, France - Vianne Mauriac bids her husband, Antoine, farewell in the tranquil town of Carriveau as he prepares to leave for the Front. She doesn't think the Nazis will attack France... But they do invade, in droves of marching soldiers, convoys of trucks and tanks, and planes that fill the skies and dump bombs on the helpless. When a German captain seizes Vianne's home, she and her daughter are forced to live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food, money, or hope, and as danger surrounds them, she is forced to make one difficult choice after another in order to keep her family alive.

Isabelle, Vianne's eighteen-year-old sister, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl yearning for meaning with the wildfire of youth. While millions of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love wholeheartedly, as only the young can. When he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, putting her life in danger time and again to save others.

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Author: Kristin Hannah
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/21853621-the-nightingale

Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner is a historical fiction set in British India and Burma. It was Mason's debut novel, and it was released in 2002 when he was 26 years old. The Piano Tuner inspired a 2004 opera of the same name (composed by Nigel Osborne to a libretto by Amanda Holden), and a film directed by Charlie Stratton is in the works. Mulberry Films LLC, Latitude Media, and BCDF will produce the film.

In 1886, a modest, middle-aged piano tuner called Edgar Drake receives a strange assignment from the British War Office: to travel to the deep forests of northeast Burma and repair a unique piano owned by an eccentric army physician who has proven inexplicably vital to imperial planning. The Piano Tuner draws readers into a world of alluring, vibrantly depicted characters and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling from the start.

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Author: Daniel Mason
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/55096.The_Piano_Tuner

Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, were nurtured in a powerful dynasty that had for years given spouses to Egypt's pharaoh. Nefertiti, who is ambitious, vivacious, and gorgeous, is destined to marry Amunhotep, a volatile young king. All believe that her strong personality will moderate the youthful Amunhotep's heretical ambition to abandon Egypt's ancient gods, topple Amun's priesthood, and create a new sun deity for all to worship.

Nefertiti has been adored by the people since her arrival in Thebes. Her allure is only rivaled by her husband's seeming generosity: Amunhotep lavishes his followers with high promises. The commoners' devotion will not be enough if the royal couple is unable to create an heir, and while Nefertiti focuses on having a son, she fails to notice that prominent priests and the military are scheming against her husband's authority. Mutnodjmet, her younger sister, is the only one clever enough to detect the shift in political winds and bold enough to inform the queen.

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Author: Michelle Moran
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/481446.Nefertiti

Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things is a family drama set in India. It's Roy's first book. It's a narrative about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are ruined by the "Love Laws", which dictate "who should be loved, how, and how much". The book delves into how minor details influence people's behavior and lives. The work also exhibits its sarcasm against casteism, which is a prevalent kind of prejudice in India. It was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997.

Arundhati Roy's modern classic is equal parts compelling family history, forbidden love tale, and searing political drama, and has been compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens. Estha and Rahel, seven-year-old twins, have their world turned upside down by the arrival of their gorgeous little cousin, Sophie. It is an occasion that will result in an unlawful connection and unintentional catastrophes, exposing "huge things linger unspoken" in a country on the verge of instability. The God of Small Things is an award-winning masterpiece that launched its author's illustrious career in fiction and political criticism, which continues uninterrupted.

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Author: Arundhati Roy
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/9777.The_God_of_Small_Things

The Book of Night Women is a broad, striking novel that is a remarkable triumph of both voice and storytelling. It tells the narrative of Lilith, a slave born on a Jamaican sugar plantation towards the end of the eighteenth century. Even before she is born, the slave women who surround her detect a terrible force that they—and she—will learn to adore and dread. The Night Women, as they are known, have been organizing a slave uprising for a long time, and when Lilith reaches maturity and displays the scope of her power, they view her as the key to their plans.

But, as she comes to terms with her own emotions, wants, and identity, Lilith begins to test the boundaries of what is possible for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. Life on the plantation is fraught with hazardous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman brutality, and very human emotion—between slave and master, slave and overseer, and among the slaves themselves. Lilith has found herself in the center of it all. And it's all told in one of the most daring literary styles to grace the page in a long time—and the source of that voice is one of the book's most interesting mysteries.

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Author: Marlon James
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/4682558-the-book-of-night-women