Girl Waits With Gun
by Amy Stewart


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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson


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Have you entered the "Adventures in the Desert" book giveaway? Don't forget!

Lucky Us
by Amy Bloom


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Mambo in Chinatown
by Jean Kwok


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The Sister
by Poppy Adams


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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
by Karen Abbott


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Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See

I have previously reviewed Dreams of Joy, which is the sequel to Shanghai Girls.


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Bumped

by Megan McCafferty


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by Deborah Noyes


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Nefertiti: A Novel
by Michelle Moran

I found this book difficult - if not, at times, outright impossible - to put down once I'd started it.  Michelle Moran did a wonderful job of evoking Nefertiti, fleshing her out from a pretty bust in Berlin to a proud woman who was a talented seductress and schemer, and above all else ambitious. 

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