By Kate Alcott
F ALCOTT
Tess meets world-renowned
fashion designer Lucile Duff Gordon just moments before boarding the Titanic.
Lucile’s agreement to hire Tess as her maid sends the women on a trajectory of
volatile friendship, loyalty, and conflict, all of which comes to a head in the
wake of their survival.
By Margot Livesey
F LIVESEY
This is a more contemporary retelling of the Jane Eyre story. Gemma leaves Iceland to live
with family in Scotland where she encounters many difficulties as she grows up.
Eventually she accepts a post as an au pair on the Orkney Islands where she
finds herself attracted to her employer, Mr. Sinclair.
By Ransom Riggs
YA F RIGGS
After a family tragedy, Jacob
feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of
Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
This book starts in the present day, and bounces back and forth between the
present and World War II.
By Daisy Goodwin
F GOODWIN
Cora Cash suddenly finds
herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in
England. Unfortunately, she finds that life is not quite as ideal as she
expected.
By Indu Sundaresan
F SUNDARES
A novel set against the
exotic backdrop of the Mughal dynasty of sixteenth-century India chronicles the
life and times of Mehrunnisa, an intelligent, ambitious, and beautiful young
woman who became one of India's legendary heroines.
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