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Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden
Century-old letters composed in the wilds of Colorado by two young schoolteachers provide the backbone of this stirring narrative by one of their granddaughters.
**The Man in the Rockefeller Suit**by Mark Seal
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At 17, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter left Germany for the United States, where he pursued a two-decade career as an imposter, most famously as Clark Rockefeller. This spectacular story is all in the entertaining details.
**State of Wonder**by Ann Patchett
A female research scientist from a Minneapolis drug company is sent to Brazil to find a doctor working on a wonder fertility drug. Think Heart of Darkness with women.
**Carte Blanche**by Jeffery Deaver
His creator may be long gone, but James Bond (with his gadgets, women, and suave lines) lives on in the skillful hands of a suspense superstar.
In the Garden of Beastsby Erik Larson
A stunning work of history that tells the story of the professor turned U.S. ambassador who witnessed the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s.
**Bloodmoney**by David Ignatius
A gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines CIA thriller set in Pakistan that will have you wondering just how much is actually fiction.
**Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness**by Alexandra Fuller
As a follow-up to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller lovingly profiles her mother, a wisecracking, Uzi-toting woman as proud of her Scottish heritage as she was in love with Africa.
**Once Upon a River**by Bonnie Jo Campbell
In this beautifully written, action-packed novel, 16-year-old Margo Crane gets raped by her uncle, sees her father murdered, and then takes off in a rowboat to search for her missing mother—and that's the first 50 pages.
Tigerlily's Orchidsby Ruth Rendell
Even after 60 novels, there's no trace of staleness in Rendell's latest, a mordantly sly group portrait of the denizens of a suburban London apartment complex where things go awry in delectably awful ways.
**The President and the Assassin**by Scott Miller
Against the backdrop of Gilded Age America in turmoil, President William McKinley is assassinated by an anarchist and terrorist.
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