By Margot Livesey
F LIVESEY
After her widowed father
drowns, Gemma Hardy 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. When Gemma returns briefly to Iceland to search for her family
she understands more about herself.
By Kate Morton
F MORTON
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to
Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her
until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to
England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.
By Erin Morgenstern
F MORGENST
A fierce competition is
underway, a contest between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been
trained since childhood to compete in "a game," in which each must
use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to them, this game
is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle
of imagination and will.
By Katherine McMahon
F MCMAHON
When her fiancé falls ill while
serving in the Crimean War, Mariella Lingwood travels to Italy to care for him
only to discover that her cousin, a volunteer in Florence Nightingale's nursing
corps, has gone missing.
By Amor Towles
F TOWLES
A chance encounter with a
handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street
secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she
befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a
single-minded widow.
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