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A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage
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Secrets of the Tudor Court (Tudor Court #1)
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My Cousin Rachel
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Saint Anything
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People
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The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
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Hungry Hill
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My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
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The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
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The King's General
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Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
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Mary Anne
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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This Scepter'd Isle (Doubled Edge, #1)
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The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë
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The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
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Daphne du Maurier
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Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
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The King's Blood
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Under One Roof: Bless This House / The Town House
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Children of the Night (Diana Tregarde, #2)
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Letty
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This Godforsaken Place
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The Chrome Borne (SERRAted Edge, #1&4)
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Walk into My Parlour
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Hot, Wet, and Shaking: How I Learned To Talk About Sex
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Requiem for Idols / You're Best Alone
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The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks
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Domestic Life in England
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Lillian on Life
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Mayhem
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Heaven in Your Hand
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Burning Water (Diana Tregarde, #1)
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Out of This Nettle
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From Scared to Sacred: Lessons in Learning to Dance with Life
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Blossom Like the Rose
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In the Unlikely Event
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Saving Face and Other Stories
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God Help the Child
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Hauntings: Is There Anybody There?
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The Town House (House, #1)
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Here Was a Man
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The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac
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Emma Hamilton
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Her
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Eleanor the Queen
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The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty
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The House at Sunset (House, #3)
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Single, Carefree, Mellow
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Scent of Cloves
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Almost Famous Women: Stories
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Winter Harvest
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A Calf for Venus
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The Day of the Butterfly
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Between
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Black River
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Women in the Old Testament: Twenty Psychological Portraits
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Mad Miss Mimic
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The Undertaking
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Her Own Special Island
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Rupert Hatton's Tale
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Read Between the Lines
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Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
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Checkmate
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The Care and Management of Lies
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The Claw
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Jewel of the Thames (Portia Adams Adventures, #1)
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The Girls
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Gad's Hall / The Haunting of Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1-2)
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The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
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Get in Trouble
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A Gathering Storm
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The Thing Around Your Neck
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When the Moon is Low
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Charlotte
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The Freedom in American Songs: Stories
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The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
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I Met a Gypsy
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Friendship
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The Lonely Furrow (Suffolk, #3)
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Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition
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A Rose for Virtue
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